The disgusting A & E Story

I think I just puked in my mouth a little bit!

I was literally nearly sick, and sill gagging!!!! I thought you meant disgusting as in disgusting service. Yuck, yuck, yuuuck! I couldn't work in A and E!

That made me queasy. Grim.

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WTAF. Dirty barsteward.

? grim but sick poop..? hmm think thats worse..? can't believe i just said that

It takes A LOT to make me ?, but that just about did the job...snot and eyeballs are my weaknesses...

I think it is the element of choice that makes it worse...my Dr friend said she is less revolted by things that people have no control over.

Lush.... ?

Also have a friend who worked in A & E for a while when training... had to remove hair straightners from a girls butt, ouch!

I've seen this fairly routinely, far better than sticking tissue or cotton buds up a baby's nose. Members of my family do it. Don't get me wrong, it makes me feel a bit queasy, but I wouldn't be surprised by the action.

Come on then Footers, what's your most revolting health-related tale? Disgust us!!!

Dear god that is just vile!

For those who don't know, I work in an eye research group. I appreciate that many people have strong feelings about eyes so I won't post pics here.

I don't see patients when they arrive at clinics but I see reports in meetings etc. And we've been told by journals to remove pictures from papers, because they are unnecessarily gruesome. And we are constantly regaled with tales of parasitic worm/fishing hook removals...

If anyone is feeling brave, they can see a picture in a recent paper from our group here:

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I really want to look, but I just can't so I'll take your word for it.

What IS that?

I'm not disgusted either, but as a nurse I'm not disgusted by much.

But what is it FTLOMB? And why did he not get it seen to earlier? Did it come up spontaneously? (And is it common????)

No. I would never eat someone else's snot. Not even my own child's. Never.

It's a patient who has something called "brittle cornea syndrome". This means that the outside layer of their eye is incredibly weak, which makes them very vulnerable to explosive injury. This girl, as I recall, suffered a glancing blow during a play fight and her eye, well, exploded. That stuff is the inside coming out.

If we can identify those at risk early enough, we can fit them out with protective goggles to wear.

Good God I feel queazy. Like *really* queazy. I also need to blow my nose, but don't want to now.

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I have no words.

This is yet more fuel to the fire of my desire to never have children! GROSS. ?

WHY did I click the link ?

I think this is interesting. And she couldn't help it so think I am probably in the "it's worse if you choose it" camp.

Although I am squeamish about eyes and don't even have contact lenses!

I must admit the eye thing didn't bother me that much!

*Note to self - teach any child I may bear to blow their nose as early as possible. No way am I ever sucking snot out of their nostrils.

Young kids just can't blow out their nose. All the little 'uns I've seen with objects they've stuck up their nose (peas, bits of Lego etc), you tell them to blow to try and get it out and they just sniff!

What are you classing as young?

Like 4 and under. I've no idea what age they learn to blow their nose instead of sniff.

My Nephew is 3 and although he hates it, he's been blowing for a while now.

So what do people propose to do when their six month old has a blocked nose and is unable to feed? Or is suffering breathing difficulties?

You can buy nasal aspirators at Boots - is it an option to do it without your mouth?

I suction noses, mouth and trachys all the time at work, with suction a catheter obviously. But yes you can buy manual home versions from Boots.

I am SO thankful my 22 month old can blow his own nose... My 5.5yr old SS struggles with this task, and regularly gets a mouthful of his own snot ?