Help removing a dried on blood stain

narabanekeater · 20 February 2006 at 5:58PM

I have just discovered a med size large blood stain on my daughters cot blanket. She pulled off a nail during the night. Luckily shes not bothered at all by it. Unlike me!
Meanwhile ive now got a dried on blood stain on a £50 (pre mse) cot quilt.
Can anyone please tell me what I might use to get rid of it. Its quite a delicate quilt
Thanks in advance
Allie and toddler Mollies whos totally unphased my Mummies screams on seeing blood!

comping_cat · 20 February 2006 at 6:01PM

If its still fresh, soak in a salt water solution. If its dried, you will need to soak it in a solution of one dessert spoon of ammonia, to one pint water for several hours. Then wash. Hope this helps, and Mollie nail is ok!!!!!

Nile · 20 February 2006 at 6:34PM

Hello narabanekeater

Before you try salt or ammonia, plain water and a bar of soap will probably do the trick.

Have the cold water tap running (trickle) over the blood stain and gently rub the stain with a bar of soap. Then gently rub the soaped area together between your two hands. I wrap the material over my hands and rub the stained area over my knuckles gently.

As you rinse the soap away, you should see the blood disappear. Repeat the soap bar rubbing and rinsing until you can no longer see the stain.

Finally, put the item in the washing machine for a separate wash. Follow the washing care label instructions. If it were my blood stained item, I would use Ariel Biological Automatic washing powder. If you don't have any..........don't worry because you've probably removed the stain anyway.

There should be no need for salt or ammonia.

Good Luck and report back.

Kind Regards

Nile

kittiwoz · 26 February 2006 at 1:22AM

The best pretreatment for blood is saliva. Spit on it, give it a good rub, leave it a few minutes, then wash it with soap. The enzymes in your spit will break down the blood.

intel · 26 February 2006 at 1:23AM

Try some more blood on the same spot that may work..

HTH

Curry_Queen · 26 February 2006 at 11:24AM

Nile wrote:

If it were my blood stained item, I would use Ariel Biological Automatic washing powder.

I can certainly vouch for that! I recently had a large dried in blood stain on a white cotton shirt and just bunged it in the washing machine (without treating it with anything first or soaking it etc) and it had completely disappeared using Ariel bio powder :j

I also use Ariel on my DS's footie kits, and we all know how muddy and grass-stained they get this time of year :rolleyes: ... but they also come out sparkly clean, even on the white bits!

Edit: just remembered ... it was Nile that advised me to use Ariel in the first place LOL! Cheers Nile! :beer:

MegS · 11 October 2006 at 7:50PM

Is there any quick way to get rid of blood? I mean without the soaking in cold water part. I've already washed the sheets but there is still a stain.
Thanks

Pink. · 11 October 2006 at 8:01PM

Hi Meg,

I have found soaking, even an older blood stain, in borax before washing at as high a temperature as the fabric can take gets rid of blood stains.

These older threads might give you some more ideas:

Help removing a dried on blood stain

Help-I need to remove blood stains.

Pink

carrieparkinson · 11 October 2006 at 8:18PM

i use cold salt water

Zed42 · 11 October 2006 at 9:08PM

I've had wonderful success with white vinegar, spraying it on.

Nicki · 11 October 2006 at 9:16PM

Ace bleach also works very well - though best results are to use it on the stain before you wash the first time. You can literally see the stain dissolve before your eyes - it's magic, and almost worth having an accident deliberately just to see it happen!

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