I couldn't breathe , they didn't care. I was in a little rock, Arkansas hospital for 10 days, I yelled, I cried, I pleaded with the perfume staff not to come in my room. why didn't the administration of the hospital help me. I can never go back into a hospital, I will be to affaird. I was on pins and needles all the time. I don't understand hospital staff that are there to care for patients can be so abusive. On the 6th day one of my doctors put un a sign do not enter with perfume on or if your clothes was dried with perfumed dryer sheets. Then about 1/2 of the staff stopped coming in with perfume. the 1/2 and the administration didn't cared if I died, from asthma or allergy that I have, I started yelling so I can't breath, I can't breath, many didn't care. I think the personnel of a hospital that intentional harms a patient should be fired. The administration should be fired for allowing a 70 year old or any patient to go thru the paid of having trouble breathing, that could have had another anaphylactic shock, it was in my records I had had them. I am lucky by the grace of God I survived. My experience in the Little Rock, Ark Hospital. I am afraid and I am mad.
Most people have some sort of scent on their clothes. I can smell the dry cleaning, or detergent on my own.
Your allergy is difficult because it involves controlling other people's behavior. I do not think it is attainable to find a hospital were the nurses do not wear clothes dried with dryer sheets. Most ladies wear some sort of perfume, or lotion, or powder.
I am glad to hear you got through it, best of luck with dealing with your allergy.
Where I live, I do volunteer work for a large regional hospital system. In all the years I have been there I can't recall one time where anyone was wearing perfume/cologne/after-shave. Nor have I seen the RN's, LPN's, Aides, Tech's, Security, or volunteers wearing any jewelry. In fact, make-up is done lightly if at all. Same with off-site x-ray imaging centers and doctor offices.
What are "the rules" about personal hygiene standards for nursing and medical and healthcare staff in general? I'm actually really interested in this question, because the dizzying fragrances my mother and I encountered quite often made us exchange glances, to put it mildly; but I never did work out a way to broach the subject. Isn't it unprofessional? Can't a hospital, or an HCA agency, lay down the law?