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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: annie123 on 15/12/2016 06:16:52

Title: Does uncontrolled or long hair interfere with cleanliness in hospitals?
Post by: annie123 on 15/12/2016 06:16:52

I have been watching a live programme series about an emergency room in a hospital on tv. It is a very good program and shows how an emergency dept. works and the cases that come in etc. but I am disturbed by the number of women who have long hair flopping over their faces when treating a patient. Is this detrimental to the patient in any way? Don't cells and dust etc. fall out of hair and could fall into a wound or onto the patient's skin especially when the nurse or doctor is doing something energetic like CPR? the men often wear caps and most of them have short hair so why don't the women have to tie hair back or wear something over it?

Title: Re: Does uncontrolled or long hair interfere with cleanliness in hospitals?
Post by: zx16 on 15/12/2016 22:48:03

I remember reading, many years ago, that hospital hygiene would be much improved if lady nurses abandoned their traditional skirts and wore trousers instead.

Nowadays, the nurses seem to have done that, and they all wear trousers.  Even though their head-hair is still uncontrolled.  But does that really matter - aren't there fewer germs in the head-hair, than in the lower hairy pubic regions?