Help removing a dried on blood stain

zippychick

help removing a dried on blood stain should give you plenty of ideas. I hope your DD is ok

well merge this later

Zip

inamegajam

I have always found cold water & a bar of soap does the trick or even washing up liquid, then wash !!! normal:D

Zziggi

My OH has got a blood stain on a light fawn coloured pair of trousers. The stain is a circle about 4 inches in diameter. (no I haven't tried to murder him - not this time anyway!!)

I always thought the solution is to soak clothes in cold water as this tends to lift the blood stain off. However OH was trying to be "helpful" and put the trousers in a bowl of warm water with washing powder & tried scrubbing them with a nail brush. When i found him i stopped him as it wasn't working & put the trousers in cold water. However after soaking the blood stain seems to now be fast on the trousers.

Can anyone suggest how to get the stain off please? (other than just putting in the washing machine as normal & hoping for the best).

Thanks in advance

Hobsons_Choice

You could try a 40degree wash with a good biological washing powder - and maybe a scoop of Vanish or somesuch in with it. If that fails, try a soak in washing soda crystals, then wash as above.

eandjsmum

Soak in cold salty water ,then wash

Churchmouse

My friend's mum used to work in a laundry. Soaking in cold salted water like eandjsmum says is the way they did it. You need a fairly strong solution, a really good handful in a bowl of water. Then I would use biological powder in the wash.

newleaf

Unfortunately, warm water sets the protein in the blood and this will make it more difficult to remove, and may have scuppered your chances completely.

For future reference, as others have said, soak with cold water, and preferably some salt, as soon as possible after the stain occurs - best of all if it doesn't get a chance to dry out. Biological washing powder or liquid is very good, applied directly to the stain (with some cold water to dissolve if powder).
Good luck!

hot.chick

someone once used milk on a blood stain when I cut my head open, but it was fresh...

maybe a stain devil might help, I know there's a blood one.

it he OK???

meritaten

either soak again in biological washing powder or Biotex. but if the bloodstain dried you may never get the dried bit out! it may need a couple of tries but Biotex hasnt let me down yet! (my son used to get nosebleeds at night and a soak in Biotex always sorted the pillowcases out).

Zziggi

hot.chick wrote: »

someone once used milk on a blood stain when I cut my head open, but it was fresh...

maybe a stain devil might help, I know there's a blood one.

it he OK???

Aww someone asking after him! He just scratched a scan off but the would bled & bled. Little disconcerting that a little skin would could bleed so much.....