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Why does the oxygen they give you in the hospital have a strange smell?

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Dr. Silviu Pasniciuc answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Plastic: The smell is probably coming from the plastic tubes, oxygen should have no smell otherwise.

Dr Ali and another doctor agreed

Answered 11/21/2017

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