Flowers Banned in Scottish Hospitals
In the Scottish NHS region flowers have been banned from hospital bedsides. More specifically visitors will be prevented from bringing their loved ones lilies or geraniums.
This is based around the claim that these flowers contain pollen that can cause allergies, and vases of water can pose potential dangers.
“A lot of people get an allergic reaction from lilies, so nurses remove them if people bring them into the general wards,” said a spokesman for the NHS Borders.
Experts beg to differ, they say that only 1 in 500 people stand the chances of being allergic to flower pollen.
There are hospitals which have banned flowers in the intensive care wards, but the ban of flowers in general care wards is seen to be an exaggeration by patient groups.
The head of the asthma and allergy research group at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, Prof Brian Lipworth, said that the decision was “completely over the top.”
“You would have to stand pretty close to a bunch of lilies and be very sensitive to get a respiratory reaction. Flowers are a very rare cause of hay fever. It is not something we see commonly, and I see hundreds and thousands of patients.”
[Via: Telegraph.co.uk]
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