How Do You Get That Hospital Smell Out Of Your Scrubs?

Posted on 02/26/2010 by nursing| 5 Comments

I am doing clinicals right now and I only have two pairs of scrubs, and four clinical days per week. But I cannot get the smell out. It isn’t foul, it is just uncomfortable because I notice it when I get home. It just smells like hospital. I’ve been told to wash them in vinegar…I tried that when I worked at a resturant and my clothes smelled like grease, after I washed them, it smelled like grease and vinegar…not a good combination. By the way it isn’t just me, my classmates have also encountered the same problem. Please help

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5 Responses to How Do You Get That Hospital Smell Out Of Your Scrubs?

  1. cooper99 | 02/26/2010 at 3:54 pm |

    I would use the tide that has febreeze in it. I use it for my husbands work clothes all the time and than the fabric softener with the same scent. If they were white bleach with tide would work but in this case febreeze sounds like the answer. I know years ago everyone use borax for that type of thing now there is borateam or snowy bleach. Try drying them outside also that makes anything smell fresh if you aren’t living next to the freeway.

  2. Bear Naked | 02/26/2010 at 4:32 pm |

    Fabreeze

  3. rishathr | 02/26/2010 at 4:56 pm |

    good luck. try extra fabric softener. eventually you won’t notice it anymore. sorry :( .

  4. :) | 02/26/2010 at 5:25 pm |

    Use GAIN no kidding its the very best wonderful smelling laundry detergent ever made.

  5. starsman | 02/26/2010 at 5:45 pm |

    Get a skunk for a pet, play with him when you get home, and believe me you won’t smell hospital no more.