If you can smell it a mask will not make a difference.  I say tell the 
patient the prep is a shower and NO colognes or lotions just like mammogram.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "L. Collins" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: perfumes


Even though a self-professed perfume junkie myself, I've gone home with a
thundering headache from exposure to the stench of a patient's cheap, heavy
cologne in close quarters for an extended period of time. As with any other
situation where there is something you don't want in your nasal or oral 
mucous
membranes (i.e., TB), don a mask.  If you're truly worried about offending, 
tell
them you have a cold/sore throat/allergy and don't want to expose them to 
it.

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