Dirty Gloves After a Rectal

A little OT but our vet showed us the best way to get a stool sample from a goat was to insert the index finger of a gloved hand into the animal's rectum and scoop out the specimen with a slightly curled finger. Upon removal from the rectum the glove is quickly removed turning it inside-out and capturing the specimen inside uncontaminated. A knot is tied at the wrist and the glove can be labled with a sharpie. Samples can be quickly collected from the whole herd this way.

Liquidsky: Ewww???

If this story did not come from a health professional I would have thought it invented.

Did they suspect some kind of food poisoning and wanted to analyze the stools?

PN I had a high fever and shaking chills. There was no obvious source of infection. It's routine in such cases to obtain cultures from everywhere--blood, urine, oropharynx and stool to identify the offending agent. Later when I returned I had a lumbar puncture, bone marrow biopsy, nasogastric washings and many other diagnostic tests performed while admitted to the hospital. Nothing was ever found and the presumed diagnosis was some Middle Eastern virus. This time was one of the lowest times of my life.

My doc tries to keep it out of sight but I know he is smearing a sample on a card. It is for hemicult.

Generally having stool on the glove is actually a bonus for purposes of completing a hemoccult. I did try to keep it out of the patients view however.

Last winter I went to a urologist for the first time to check out blood in my urine. I assumed he would only be interested in my urine and bladder and would scope my bladder, period, so I didn't take my usual 8 oz. bulb enema, before seeing him. He unexpectedly did a DRE on me to also check my prostate and the glove came out dirty. I was mortified. From that day on, I ALWAYS take a bulb before I see him for my many follow-up cystoscopies. Doctors may be used to seeing dirty gloves, but I am not and refuse to not prepare myself for that possibility.

Also, before any O.R. procedure I take a 2 qt. tap water enema the night before, since I have no internal sphincters and no sigmoid to hold back any bowel content from leaking out on the O.R. table.

I tend to watch the doctor's actions carefully to observe the procedures they follow to don the gloves and then remove them with the least amount of contamination to the skin as possible. I do tend to notice the the finger in particular that was inserted into my rectum during rectal exams and quietly hope that their is no fecal matter on it out of some absolutely unnecessary and unwarranted sense of embarrassment.

Thats why I always have a good clean out enema before a doctor appointment. I would be completely mortified if I saw a fecal smeared glove after the exam.

By the time I turn around the gloves are already in the trash. Although I know they do sometimes.

There's a special little trick to turning gloves inside out while the patient is wiping himself so that no one is embarrassed. It's called do it quickly.

Its usual for faecal matter to be retained on gloves (particularly if un-prepped) and indeed can touched onto a card for lab testing in some clinical situations. The gloves are simply turned inside out when being removed and disposed of in clinical waste. The practitioner must then repeat hand cleansing and swabbing etc before next patient.

For the member who said they had a good "clean out" enema, they may be doing themselves a disservice in doing that, due to the fact that the stool is tested for occult blood, which indicates gi problems.

I normally turn, and watch the examiner run the test, which takes just a few seconds

I got an infection from a dirty glove used by a female nurse practitioner during my hospital admissions physical exam in my room. She had carried it in her pocket all that day and then used it for my prostate exam. I was in my early 20s and later questioned why the prostate exam was done and the doctor just shrugged it off saying its policy for all admissions exams of men. It still flares up from time to time and I have to lie on the floor to relieve the pain, it subsides in a few minutes until the next time.

You got an infection? What kind? Have you had this confirmed by a medical professional? No infection goes away in minutes of lying on the floor. It's more likely that you have proctalgia fugax. You can look it up. Carry a dirty glove in a pocket? I don't think so. Paranoid ramblings again. Flights of deluded fancy.

I got an infection from a dirty glove used by a female nurse practitioner during my hospital admissions physical exam in my room. She had carried it in her pocket all that day and then used it for my prostate exam. I was in my early 20s and later questioned why the prostate exam was done and the doctor just shrugged it off saying its policy for all admissions exams of men. It still flares up from time to time and I have to lie on the floor to relieve the pain, it subsides in a few minutes until the next time.

What infection did you get? What were you being admitted for? What was the treatment?

You know usually they call the gift that keeps on giving umm herpes. LOL.

Seriously, I just can't see you getting an infection from the situation you sited above. Maybe a reaction if you are allergic to latex, but that's about it and the only thing I could think of.

Last thing. As a medical professional I can absolutely promise you beyond a shadow of a doubt that the medical professional in your story did NOT carry around a dirty glove in her pocket, I'm even more positive that she didn't even put a dirty glove in her pocket. We never would do that because it's so nasty. If we have a dirty glove or anything else dirty we either put it in the trash or we drop it on the floor truth be told, but our pocket, no way in hell my friend, sorry.

Mashie

Please read this and see if this isn't more likely what you have. Seriously, proctalgia fugax seems more likely than an infection.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proctalgia_fugax

"Sky", thanks for posting that piece from Wikipedia. I think that is what I occasionally experience, due to radiation burns and scaring. It feels like a "Charlie Horse" in the rectum.

I didn't add that I've had proctalgia fugax myself on a number of occasions. Wakes me up in the early hours of the morning. A small enema brings instant relief.

If it was foreplay or doing a play medical exam I certainly would never transfer my gloved or bare finger or any instrument from anus to vagina.

It is well know that feocal matter transferred to the vagina should be avoided at all times to avoid infection.

On one occasion after a lengthy anal/rectum finger play I went to wash my hands before clitoral play to orgasm and got a complaint that she had "cooled" down whilst I was gone and with hindsight it would have been better to use a glove that could have been taken off in a second rather than disappear into the bathroom for a few minutes

I would imagine that a dirty glove from a rectal exam is very common. During my last physical, my doctor performed a rectal/prostate exam as usual. When he was finished, I very briefly caught a glimpse of his glove which did indeed have quite a bit of fecal matter on the index finger, some of which was used for the fecal occult blood test.

I have had a few rectal exams and only one stands out usually I can never really see the gloves when the doctor is done the one time I received a rectal exam it was from a younger doctor I posted about the physical on here under a different post. I was fairly young at the time this took place so I really don't know why he thought I even needed a rectal exam he told me he wasn't concerned about my prostate because of my age so I don't know why he was so concerned about this but he told me he wanted to check my stool for blood when he was finished with the exam he just left me bent over the table and I turned my head and watched what he was doing I watched him look at is finger before he wiped it on the card and the finger of the glove was indeed smeared brown I did feel a little embarrassed when I saw his finger.

I always have an empty rectum when I go to the doctor

Actually happened to my wife, she was extremely embarrassed, because she saw the doctor smear it on a card to send to the lab for testing.

It happened to me once during my pelvic exam. I notice the doctor took his glove off quickly and threw it away.

For my very fist rectal exam, I was able to see my doctor smear his gloved finger on that little piece of cardboard to be sent off for some type of analysis. This was probably sue to the fact that I was lying on my side, facing his counter/work area.

For all others since then, the doc has removed and disposed of his gloves by the time I've been able to get my underwear and pants up (usually over a semi-erection) and turn around.

The woman doctor told me she was going to take a stool sample while she was already in my rectum during the exam.

It happened to my wife during a pelvic exam. Prior to the exam, my wife had to give a urine sample. She was taking a long time in the bathroom. She later told me that she felt that she had to go but could not really go. During the exam, I was standing near the business end of the table because of the way the room was set up. Her female doctor did a rectal and repeated the bimanual that way. The doctor was definitely was able to test her stool for blood.

I remember how the woman who examined me during the military examination took off her gloves. They were covered with a lubricant. She threw them in the trash can. It was already half full of gloves. I thought that many young men experienced a rectal examination that day.

They always take them off before I can see