Whats the most disgusting body "condition" to witness

Having to choose only ONE of the many disgusting
body “conditions”.
Which ONE do you find the MOST disgusting and gross to witness?

Booger in someones nose.
Someone picking their nose.
Earwax hanging out…
Gunk in someones eyes.
White “gunk” around someones mouth.
“Spit strings” in a persons mouth that is talking to you.
Food in the teeth.
Body stink
Oily greasy hair
etc… you get the idea…
MY #1 would be
Witnessing a booger lodged within someones nostril.

You forgot intestines spilling out all over the floor. I hate it when that happens to someone I’m talking to.

I’d have to say either someone vomiting or picking a scab. ::shudder::

For me, it would be the ol’ head-spinning green-stuff-flying stinky-festering-boil-covered body that’s inhabited by Satan.

Gets me every time.

Being in the presence of someone undergoing spontaneous human combustion is a real downer.

Except on those cold winter nights.

I had a client in this week with a tracheotomy. That was pretty gross.

I HATE, HATE, HATE it when people pick at their toe nails around me. I think it is SO discussting. It makes me gag. Yuck!

Someone picking their nose, especially when they stick the result in their mouth and swallow it.

Put those all together and add some ass scratching and dandruff under the fingernails eating and you have a guy I work with. WHO IS MY SUPERIOR!!! No joke!

Someone missing a limb and you can see the stump not covered by clothing. And I feel horrible for feeling this way.

:frowning:

I’m just easily squeamish and think, Ow!

Gas gangrene, definitely! I walked into the room and the patient told me his leg was oozing. The smell nearly killed me, and at this point in my career, most smells don’t bother me at all. His lower leg was sloughing off, and his slipper was filled with greenish, bloody soup. I nearly got grossed out.

In terms of comparison, this was 3 times as gross as the time that guy’s intestines blew up in the operating field (and my face) during bowel resection surgery.

Remember, you did ask! :wink:

How about rectal fistula? I read about that in another post around here recently, and apparently, there is a hole in the wall between the vagina and the rectum, resulting in feces coming out of the vagina! :eek:

That would be an example of a recto-vaginal vistula, TTS. Usually easy to repair surgically, but a bit messy to tidy up if lots of stool has packed itself into the vagina for a long time.

these types of fistulae can also communicate into the bladder, resulting in peeing stool, and a nasty bladder infection. They can also bypass the anus and communicate with the outside world directly, giving one two excretory orifi.

God, I love have a doctor on the boards who is willing to address these things.

Really, no sarcasm here. It definitely enriches the place for me. Your powers of description are a bonus, too. :slight_smile:

Thanks, Ma’am. Glad to oblige. Unka Cecil is my role model, and he never found it desirable to sugar-coat the truth.
BTW, I had Tandoori chicken, and lamb tikka masala with ginger nan for dinner last night! It was to die for!

How common is this condition?

Septic rectal prolapse.

That all-too-common affliction, cranial-rectal inversion.

How 'bout a pylionidal (sp) lesion - you know, one of those nasty open sores full of hair and puss.

I think thats pretty nasty.

I’m so glad I haven’t seen either flossing or nose blowing mentioned, both of which I don’t hesitate to do in just about any public situation.