The smell of alcohol

After a thermometer was used (always rectally), my mother would swab it with alcohol before putting it back into its sheath.

In hospital, the trolley carrying the thermometers stank of something pungent, which I later understood to be probably camphor alcohol. The thermometers were stored dipped in that liquid. I don't know if they wiped them after use before putting them back into that liquid until next user.

To me these are the smells associated with rectal temperatures: the straight alcohol at home, the disinfectant at the hospital.

When I was a child, going to the pediatrician, the smell of alcohol was the first thing I noticed when we would walk inside the place. It brings back memories just thinking about it.

Alcohol and PineSol cleaner are smells that vividly bring back images of being in the Pediatrician's office with a thermometer firmly inserted in my rectum. 🍑🌡

The stingy smell of alcohol is without doubt a big trigger point for me, although I only associate it with the disinfecting of skin before injections / drawing blood.

When I was a child, going to the pediatrician, the smell of alcohol was the first thing I noticed when we would walk inside the place. It brings back memories just thinking about it.

Same here. There is another thread about the smell of a doctor's office back in the 60's/70's. Alcohol and cigarette smoke were the two smells I recall vividly.

Oh yes! I recall that smell of alcohol, at home and the doctor’s exam room.

It always brings me back to pediatricians office when I smell that scent of rubbing alchohol. It triggers that I need to have my temperature taken. Just need a nice male doctor to take it. Lol

Not only was there the smell of alcohol but on the counters you could see two cylinders for an oral and rectal thermometer. In addition, I would see the box of tongue depressors as well as the container of cotton balls and the brown cylindrical container of alcohol that was used to prepare a cotton ball. Sometimes there would be a medication vial on the counter. All of these things plus the feel of the crinkling paper as I sat on the table would be and remain triggering for me.

The smell of alcohol makes me think of the night nurse with my pain medication.

I like the smell of surgical alcohol . . Reminds one of the cute nurses in uniform & some of the . .er . .nursing duties

Someone just posted about the thermometers in the holder at the pediatrician, one oral, one rectal. At my pediatrician both thermometers had red tops, If they wanted to take an oral temp the nurse had go out of the room to get an oral thermometer.

Always enjoyed the smell of alcohol in the exam room. Heightened the experience.