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Vampire blood on a white rugby shirt!!!

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  • MILLYMOLLY
    MILLYMOLLY Posts: 1,069 Forumite
    It's fabric and it's dried it happened last night I'll try the washing up liquid with cold water. Thanks
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  • csarina
    csarina Posts: 2,557 Forumite
    Whose blood is it? quilters use a trick to get blood out of fabric, saliva on a rag and rub the stain, but it has to be the person whose blood it is, it will not work if MIL uses her saliva if the blood is not hers. IYSWIM.
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  • maryb
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    As it's a cream colour you might get away with dry cleaning fluid (Carbon tetrachloride type, if you can still get it) dabbed on with a cotton bud (works on mattresses) but be careful in case it takes the colour out
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  • zippychick
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    Hi Millymolly :D

    Might any of these threads offer ideas?

    Removing blood stains from mattress


    Removing a dried on blood stain

    Blood stained carpet

    I'll merge this for you later. Let us know if you have success
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  • Hi I'm having the same problem - except the stain i'm trying to remove is a couple of months old. Daughter was to embarrassed to tell me so she flipped her mattress over and left it. Any solutions for a really old blood stain on a mattress or recommendations?
  • zippychick
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    Hi Soulerean

    Did you read back through the thread and try any of the suggested tips? They don't seem to be for particularly "fresh" blood stains if that makes sense? (what an odd sentence!)

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  • moggins wrote: »
    An old army trick us army wives used to use before march out was to make a paste of bleach and talcum powder and rub it gently into the surface of the mattress. The bleach removes the blood and the talcum absorbs the bleach so it doesn't just sink straight into the mattress. It works a treat.

    used this tip this am, made up into a paste put over stain, 4 hours later took off and stain has gone. so easy , thank you for your tip brill..
  • susyrosy
    susyrosy Posts: 121 Forumite
    May I send a fervent and heart-felt thanks to whoever discovered mixing talc with bleach to get an OLD bloodstain (about 3 weeks) out of a mattress. It really worked a treat!

    Now to tell the daughter off ...... I wish she'd TELL me, after all, accidents happen ...

    THANK YOU THANK YOU AGAIN!!

    Susy
  • My thoughts are that i definitely agree with getting a mattress protector. Its not so much for me having "female accidents" but because I was amazed how much my OH could sweat and the marks it can leave on the protector etc!! You can get them cheap-ish from the supermarkets etc.

    On removing stains it might be worth considering car upholstery cleaner. I got a can of it for £1 from tesco. It doesn't smell great but it got some dried blood out of my car seat (nose bleed) and didn't soak it through (it a foam base). It dried really well after a few hours and didn't bleach it etc.
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  • Primrose
    Primrose Posts: 10,667 Forumite
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    I think the sensible thing for any woman to have is a mattress protector to protect against these accidents waiting to happen. If you live near a Dunelm store (don't know if they have an online sales service) they sell a very good one which has a very thin towelling type upper layer with a waterproof layer underneath. It's a very thin protector and doesn't have any of those nasty sweaty or crackly properties that the old waterproof sheets used to have. And it can be machine washed at low temperatures and dried outdoors on a washing line. I've now got them on all our beds.
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