Newfoundland dog in hospital - whatever next?

Read the thread ffs, it's not a pet!!! It's a therapy dog.

Someone needs to read the thread....

I am not sure which is more unbelievable. That someone brought their pet to the hospital and not one person stopped them. Or that a hospital is so empty at midday.

Good to know that the presence of us disabled people who need assistance dogs, lower the standards.

Can you not hear how ableist that is? Would you tell a black person they were lowering standards by being there?

I noticed that name also and another familiar one.

So you've never had any experience of, it you havent actually seen a dog running willy nilly around a hospital, but you think that PAT dogs should be banned just in case. Ok then.

No luckily

Agree. It’s gross, but a sign of the times and a lowering of standards everywhere.

It wouldn't make me not allergic either, I have dog and cat allergy and asthma, but as a therapy dog it still has a right to be there.

Uh oh PlopSofa the most antidote poster ever has arrived. It's almost like they look for dog threads to come and antagonise themselves over?

Have you been in a hospital where there was a dog and you had an allergic reaction to it?

Wonder if you are local to me. When my DF was on end of life care we discussed bringing his dog into see him and the staff said that they would often sneak a pet in up the fire stairs at the end of the ward particularly on a Sunday when there were less doctors around. We decided against it as said dog was large and bouncy but it was tempting.

@monkeysox Surely you can see that it's give and take and whilst dogs are not beneficial to you they are beneficial albeit not vital to others. It is down to you to take necessary precautions for your allergy. A lot of things are not vital in the hospitals but they are there.

Dogs aren't vital to hospitals.
And to previous posters. Yes I have reacted to a guide dog being in a room

ESBL is a multi drug resistant bacteria with sadly plenty of research behind it.

Youd do well to educate yourself on the likes of Pub Med before making spurious opinions about me and my knowledge.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7688229/

Its a large and growing problem in the medical community especially where UTIs are concerned.

@monkeysox Hospitals simply cannot cater for everyone with allergies. What about people that are allergic to perfumes? Do they therefore ban all patients and staff from wearing perfume? What about an allergy to plastic, do they remove all plastic? I am an allergy sufferer and it down to me to mange that and take necessary precautions where and when I am able to. I don't expect establishments and premises to make changes to accommodate me. Where does it all end then? Everything is removed in case of possible allergens? It is simply not feasible or possible. Not everyone can be pleased and it is not an ideal world.

I couldn't manage more than half an hour where a dog had been. I'd become breathless.
It does restrict where I eat out.
Luckily work isn't an issue.
Hospital shouldn't have allergens.

I didn’t call you a cunt. I said someone objecting to a therapy dog being allowed into hospital, to want to have it removed is a cunt.

And the hysteria around allergies/phobias/ is off the scale and over exaggerated.

Thousands of guide dogs are refused by taxi drivers every year on the basis that “I’m allergic” when actually the driver is just prejudiced. If a taxi driver has a genuine allergy they can get a medical exemption certificate.

A freedom of information act recently showed that there are just seven taxi drivers in London with a medical exemption, but a lot more use the allergy excuse to break the law and refuse guide dogs.

@monkeysox You are taking it to the extreme here. How do you manage outside of a hospital then with dogs everywhere you turn? You avoid where they are, same in a hospital. All you have to do is voice your health concerns and how it is problematic to you and the dog will be taken away. They do ask all patients if they have any objections to a dog being in the area. As for simply passing it in a corridor as it is getting to where it should be, just give it a wide berth as it will only be passing within seconds. If your allergy is that severe then how do you even manage out and about in the public?

Would still be affected if didn't touch it.
Lack of awareness much.

Suspect people who are much better medically trained and work with patients, more than you have assessed this and concluded you are simply wrong

If you don’t want to be affected by your allergies then you don’t touch it, simple.

Allergy to dogs which means that if you’re in the same room as them you’re going to drop dead is pretty much unheard of.

And assistance dogs are legally allowed in public places. So suck it up.

Calling me a cunt for wanting to be able to breathe. Are you for real 😳

This information is important and relevant! If it’s a service dog then it’s fine, if someone just came in with it then this isn’t ok.. but very unlikely.
Whatever the reason, I’d love it!