Hospital socks

I love hospital socks, especially the blue hospital socks. Does anyone else love hospital socks?

They never stay on my feet

The reason they are not staying on your feet is they are wrong size. Most hospitals are using a "universal" size, which are large and fit poorly. My favorite brand is Kimberly Clark, single tred, blue socks.

Exactly, to save $, they buy one size fits none.

I like the purple "Bair Paws" socks.

Rather be barefoot.

I have a few pairs of hospital socks, one pair is a bluish grey color and the other pair is grey, they keep my feet warm in the winter

Like jhs517, I prefer being barefoot. However, with all the various conditions and infections running around a modern hospital, I would wear the socks to try to avoid a fungal or other infection.

With all 3 of my surgeries last winter they gave me the blue/gray, non-skid socks and I was very glad to have them. When you are in the cold O.R., your feet get chilly. Also, when they get you out of bed to start walking around your room or hall with assistance, the non-skid properties of the socks are wonderful.

The ones they give in my hospital are the thick red ones with treads on the bottom to prevent slipping. They are huge though for tiny feet .

The only other ones they give are those sexy ? long white compression stockings they put on if you are going to be in bed a long time or having a surgery . To help stop you getting a DVT .

"Bring Your Own Socks" Indian Gover ment hospitals! Lol

In Private hospitals we get a blue colored socks which are huge! they are fucking warmers !! Who wears warmer in 46C temperature??? Brrrr

As Niknoks said :

The ones they give in my hospital are the thick red ones with treads on the bottom to prevent slipping. They are huge though for tiny feet .

The only other ones they give are those sexy ? long white compression stockings they put on if you are going to be in bed a long time or having a surgery . To help stop you getting a DVT .

Except in our case the socks are blue Lol. We do use Thromboembolic deterrent (TED) stockings but usually knee length, we use to use thigh length but those either got rollen down and thus defeats the purpose or cause heat rashes on the skin ( not good for maintaining skin integrity ).

At our hospitals here in my area and at the nursing facilities we have all kinds of different color hospital grippy socks. Each size is a different color. There are yellow, blue, green, red, and gray that I have seen and white with blue tread.

And if I might offer a little bit of advice to you guys, NEVER walk ANY PLACE in the hospital, not even in your own room bare footed. A hospital floor is one of the dirtiest things known to man. It may look clean but I assure you it isn't.

Now back on the political end of the hospital socks. I don't think it's a law, but again at least here in Ohio it's pretty much a very strict policy that every patient wear grippy socks. If one of our patients fall and they were not wearing grippy socks the facility can get in serious trouble. If a patient falls and is injured and it's found out that they didn't have any fall prevention's in place the facility is at risk for being sued as well as having to eat or pay for the bill or charges associated with the care of that fall. It's a huge deal.

When we get a new patient in a facility we have to fill out a care plan for them that is specific to them, their condition, needs and treatment. Always, and I do mean always one of the papers in the admit packet is the fall prevention page. There you check the things that you are going to put in place to keep that patient from falling. Those things range anyplace from keeping the floor clutter free to placing a tab alarm on them.

It pains me to hear that some of your facilities do not take something as important as grippy socks seriously. Aside from keeping your feet pretty toasty, they really do provide a very important function, which is, keeping our patients safe. Ill fitting grippy socks are more of a hazard actually than not wearing any socks at all. It's a shame.

Mashie

I have a drawer of many pairs of grippy socks from over many years.

As for the floor of a hospital, clinic, care center, treatment room, exam room etc being one of the most filthy places on earth, AMEN!!! I could name many more places in the same area that are just as nasty...though I don't want to digress and ramble... 😁

Safety! So very important for countless reasons! Wear your grippy socks! You are being charged for them in one way or another.

TEDS... I have a few of those as well. They are just so darn attractive and fashionable like the grippy socks and hospital gowns 😁 ...NOT!!!

We don't have grippy ones here in Canada just shoe cover/slippers that are like a surgical hat.

I wonder what that means?..

I like the hospital socks with the grips. When in the hospital, I usually take them off when I return to my bed. As has been posted before floors are filthy.

I have 2 pairs of the red ones. Yes, they are intended for both warmth and grippiness. You can't wear them with shoes or boots, but sort of nice around the house on a cold day.

When I had hernia surgery in 2008, I wore a pair of the Bair-Paws socks; they were white. When I had my more recent surgery, they just gave me the usual booties.

I have a couple pairs of the grey ones and a awesome kick ass yellow pair lol.

Yea there warm and have tred on them which is really cool. I actually brought home a pair or 2 and wear them if I'm going to be hanging out at home.

I must admit to having more than my fair share of them in a dresser drawer due to the fact of being hospitalized quite a few times. In particular I acquired many of them after a motorcycle accident. Actually I just put a pair of them on because my feet were getting quite cold. While in the hospital I would have preferred to have my shower shoes or flip flops if you want to call them to wear since I do not like walking around in socks. I do remember that this Medical Center that they had on the hospital campus had radiant heated floors and if I stood on the floor wearing the socks the floor was so warm that they would stick a little bit. But personally I would prefer not to have such a large collection of these Hospital socks.

A staple in the toy bag. The club floors are icky, plus they keep my sub’s toes warm.

Bonus, I use the long open-ended compression socks to keep the flogger tails straight.

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I'm pretty sure you can still get something similar on the 'civilian market.' I had a couple pairs of something similar but maybe nicer that were sold as warm slippers that didn't slip.

I'm pretty sure you can still get something similar on the 'civilian market.'

Amazon has them in different sizes and colors.

I love slipper socks I keep every pair when I come home from the hospital. I have probably 50 60 sets cuz I've been in the hospital that many times in the last 25 years.

So for the past few months Ive had this foot infection I've been trying to deal with. I have a home nurse that comes 3 times a week to change the bandages on it. Because of that, I've pretty much replaced all my current socks with the blue hospital slipper socks -- especially since half of my house is on a hard laminate floor, which is pretty slippery x.x

Don't really love them, but I still have one brand new pair I took home after my open-heart surgery.. Keeping it as kind of reminder of my two-week hospital stay, as sometimes the experience seems like a dream (nightmare)..

I've never really wanted a pair, and don't find them unusually comfortable (I'm OK with just tube sock), but the medfetter in me likes them on a pretty inpatient girl, complete with her own pajamas (in this case without feet) and a surgical or N95 mask or cartridge respirator to wander the halls or accept guests.

Last time I was given McKesson XXL gray socks with little dots of plastic or rubber so patient can walk on slick floor and not slip. I took them home and find that in the winter using the socks makes getting into a cold bed much more comfortable. Definitely not a medfet item.