i am writing a paper for class and i need statisticts on how many people have ever been inside a nursing facility and smelled the urine oder lingering in the air. Any information would be very helpful
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I have visited many family members in nursing homes in the past and the odor is one which I believe is unique and haunting. I don't think I have ever smelled anything like it anywhere else. But I agree that in the several facilities I have been in, the smell is the same.
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You should look up the department of health in your county and call them to find out what the law is, most likely the business is required to have a bathroom.  You can also file the complaint with them.
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Yes, I know what you mean.  I don't think everyone is capable of smelling death, but I am.  It happened when my aunt was very sick many years ago.  I could smell death on her for a couple of days before it happened.  It happened again recently when my sister was sick in the hospital.  I don't tell anyone, but they always wonder why I don't like to visit people who are in the hospital and close to death.
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I don't think that it is common practice to spray if there is a bad smell in a doctor's office. These are trained individuals and part of their training as doctor's is to recognize smells to help diagnose potential problems.  On top of that, they have to make sure every patient is comfortable to stop potential lawsuits.  \n\nI am not sure exactly what it could be, but next time she goes tell her to ask.  There is nothing wrong with asking your doctor what he is doing and why. It's your body, you should know.\n\nFinally, If it was an odor thing the doctor or nurse would have most likely told her about it and gave a script to help alleviate the issue. They are there to help, not ridicule!\n\nNo Worries!
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This one time, I was at a house party and peed in the shampoo bottles. Cracking up, I went out and told my best friend. Being one who couldn't stand to be bested especially in pranks, he went back into the house, to the bathroom, and peed into every bottle and jar he could find. Man, even the Aqua Velva became yellow.
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Just curious why a teacher wouldnt ask the school admin about this first, but since you asked - it is very possible to get it done. Most likely the duct work in the school could use a good cleaning (dust buildup, mouse poop, whatever).  BUT it would also be a good idea for actual air quality testing to be done by the environmental health agency near you, because if you are having these reactions, I bet the students are too.
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lmao, mr chili that's so funny.  The odor from flatulation (fart) is actually microscopic particles of feces along with body heat and gases. That is where the smell comes from. \n Once those particles are no longer airborne and fall to the ground the smell can no longer be detected, it's at your feet not up at nose level.\n\nDid you really poot in a box and seal it up? Ahhhh-haaa. LOL!!
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There are approximately 35 million patients admitted to hospitals each year. Approximately 5% of these develop "nonsocomial blood infections" - the type of blood infection that serratia is. This equates to approximately 1.75 million people per year. (Source: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no2/wenzel.htm)\n\nSerratia accounts for appriximately 1.4% of all nonsocomial blood infections (source: http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2103.htm) or 1.4% of 1.75 million for a total of 24,500 cases per year.
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well when it comes to stinky hallways..\nrealy there has to be some stinky history there ie milk left for days during the 2nd world war lots of boiling of heavy meats like pastrami corned beef and the like. \nOf course it is probably something much simplier like dirty tennants that dont take the time to clean and spritz the placeup.
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Everybody is familiar with this phenomenon. Most of us have a friend or relative who can clear out a room when they kick off their shoes. And even the sweetest smelling person can do a decent job stinking up a pair of shoes by running a few miles in them. So what's going on here? Why do your feet have a stronger odor than the rest of you does?\n\nThe main thing that feeds foot smell is sweat. With more than 250,000 sweat glands each, your feet are among the most perspiring parts of the body. In one day, each foot can produce more than a pint of sweat! Sweat is basically just salt and water, though, so it doesn't have a distinctive smell of its own. The smell is actually caused by bacteria on our skin that eats the sweat and excretes waste that has a strong odor. It's perfectly normal to have bacteria on your skin, and it doesn't ordinarily produce a noticeable smell, but sweat attracts bacteria and gives them a whole lot to feed on.\n\nOf course we sweat all over -- our hands have a comparable number of sweat glands, for example -- and most of the rest of our body doesn't particularly stink (the armpits being a notable exception. See How Sweat Works for details.) So what's different about our feet? The answer is our socks and shoes. The sweat our feet excrete can't easily escape into the air like the sweat our hands excretes -- it all collects on our skin and in our socks. The bacteria love this dark, damp feast and have a sort of feeding frenzy. When you take off your shoes, the smell that hits you is all the bacteria excretion that's collected on your feet and in your socks and shoes.\n\nThe main reason some people's feet (or more precisely, some people's socks and shoes) smell worse than other people's is that some people sweat more than other people. This is just one of the many variable physiological qualities of human beings. This is also why sometimes your feet smell much worse than at other times -- it all has to do with how much you sweat.\n\nSo, since foot odor is caused by bacteria digesting sweat, there are two main ways to reduce the stink. You can:\n\n    * decrease the amount of bacteria on your feet\n    * decrease the amount of sweat that collects on your feet and in your shoes \n\nReducing the level of bacteria is really a matter of cleanliness. To control the bacteria population on you feet, you should:\n\n    * wash your feet with strong anti-bacterial soap\n    * wear clean socks\n    * don't wear the same shoes everyday - give a pair of shoes 24 hours or more to air out before wearing them again \n\nTo reduce the amount of sweat that collects in your shoes, you should:\n\n    * wear well-ventilated shoes instead of very constrictive shoes, such as boots\n    * always wear socks, preferably made of cotton or other absorbent materials that absorb a lot of the sweat so the bacteria can't feed on it\n    * change your socks a few times a day\n    * buy some absorbent Odor-Eater type shoe inserts\n    * apply an antiperspirant to your feet \n\nIf your foot odor is really bad and these solutions don't help much, then you should see a doctor. There are a number of prescription drugs that can treat serious foot odor, some by killing bacteria and some by reducing foot sweat
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They should have given you a form to write down any thing that is wrong with the apartment. If they did not I would just write every thing down and give it to them, make sure that you keep a copy for yourself (have whom ever you give it to sign it and make a copy for you). There are things that they can do to get that smell out.
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At my workplace, I finally posted a sign ...\n\n"Ladies, if you piss like a man, then raise the seat like a man, dammit!"\n\n... and it actually worked.\n\nIn public restrooms, I try to use the handicapped stall with the handrails, so that I can "hover" more easily -- after raising the seat of course! -- or to use my "urinette". A urinette is a kind of contoured funnel with a long tube that allows a women to urinate standing without making a mess of her clothing. Many camping supply stores sell them for hikers.\n\nBut to answer your question: Because they are filthy swine with no consideration for others. It is unspeakably vile to leave urine, feces, sputum, nose matter, and other bodily effusions lying about where others are sure to come into contact with them. These are probably the same people who resist cleaning up after their dogs.
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About 8 years ago I worked in a fish packaging plant and it was so wrong in so many ways, I almost threw up a lot, the conveyor belt made me sick to my stomach, I had to quit after only one week.\nDigging my fox hole and staying in it over night was pretty dirty.\nWorking in a senior center, I am not even going to go into details but that was a DIRTY job.
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I did have one of these, in 1978. \nI was in college, living in the residential community on campus. We had had our Thanksgiving dinner before the holiday started. I had eaten a great deal. Then, I started drinking cheap Scotch, warm, with a friend. \nNext thing I know, I'm looking in my toilet saying to myself, "Barf in the toilet, not on the floor. Barf in the toilet, not on the floor." I barfed all over the bathroom, my bedroom, and passed out. \nIt was 15 years before I could stand the smell of Scotch.
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Are you asking - can you smell the smell you just smelled on your breath?????????\n\nInteresting thought.\n\nOMG!!!!!!!! I hope not, I sometimes have to use the toilet after my husband's been in there.......... and I'd hate to think that THAT was on my breath!!!
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I was at a college orientation and i was on my period and bulls-eye i got a big red circle on my butt. I try to walk side ways throughout the whole orientation. Or to let everyone in front of me go first. As soon as I saw a bathroom  I tried to clean it with a paper towel and water the the stain got worse. I felt like I was Kevin in the Wonder Years.After that I never even attended that college.And what sucks is before I even knew about the stain these staff bitches had seen it and never said a word.
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Well... I ran to the bathroom after reading these...\n\n *Two old ladies were outside their nursing home having a smoke. When it started to rain, one of the ladies pulled out a condom, cut off the end, put it over her cigarette, and continued smoking\n\nLady 1: What's that?\nLady 2: A condom. This way my cigarette doesn't get wet.\nLady 1: Where did you get it?\nLady 2: You can get them at any drugstore.\n\nThe next day Lady 1 hobbles herself into the local drugstore and announces to the pharmacist that she wants a box of condoms.\n\nThe guy, obviously embarrassed, looks at her kind of strangely (she is, after all, over 80 years of age) but very delicately asks her what size.\n\n"Doesn't matter son, as long as it fits a Camel"\n\nThe pharmacist fainted. \n\n\n\n\n   *A police officer pulls over a guy who had been weaving in and out of the lanes. He goes up to the guy's window and says, "Sir, I need you to blow into this breathalyzer tube."\n\nThe man says, "Sorry officer, I can't do dat. I am a asthmatic 'n if I do dat, I'll have a really bad asthma attack!"\n\n"Okay, fine. I need you to come down to the station to give a blood sample."\n\n"I can't do dat eeder! I am a hemophiliac. If I do dat, I'll bleed to death!"\n\n"Well, then we need a urine sample."\n\n"I'm sorry officer, I can't do dat eeder. I am also a diabetic. If I do dat, I'll get really low blood sugar."\n\n"All right then, I need you to come out here and walk this white line."\n\n"I can't do dat, officer."\n\n"Why not?"\n\n"Cause I'm drunk as a skunk!" \n\n\n\n\n*A blind man walks into a restaurant and sits down. The waiter, who is also the owner, walks up to the blind man and hands him a menu. "I'm sorry sir, but I am blind and can't read the menu. Just bring me a dirty fork from the previous customer, I'll smell it and order from there."\nA little confused, the owner walks over to the dirty dish pile and picks up a greasy fork. He returns to the blind man's table and hands it to him.\nThe blind man puts the fork to his nose and takes in a deep breath. "Ah, yes that's what I'll have, meatloaf and mashed potatoes." Unbelievable, the owner says to himself as he walks towards the kitchen.\nThe cook happens to be the owner's wife and he tells her what had just happened. The blind man eats his meal and leaves.\nSeveral days later the blind man returns and the owner mistakenly brings him a menu again. "Sir, remember me? I'm the blind man."\n"I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you. I'll go get you a dirty fork." The owner again retrieves a dirty fork and brings it to the blind man. After another deep breath, the blind man says, "That smells great, I'll take the Macaroni and cheese with broccoli."\nOnce again walking away in disbelief, the owner thinks the blind man is screwing around with him and tells his wife that the next time the blind man comes in he's going to test him. The blind man eats and leaves.\nHe returns the following week, but this time the owner see's him coming and runs to the kitchen.\nHe tells his wife, "Mary rub this fork around down your pantys before I take it to the blind man." Mary complies and hands her husband the fork back. As the blind man walks in and sits down, the owner is ready and waiting.\n"Good afternoon sir, this time I remembered you and I already have the fork ready for you."\nThe blind man puts the fork to his nose, takes a deep whiff and says, "Hey I didn't know that Mary worked here?" \n\n*A 5-year-old boy went to visit his grandmother one day. Playing with his toys in her bedroom while grandma was dusting, he looked up and said, "Grandma, how come you don't have a boy friend now that Grandpa went to heaven?\n\n"Grandma