Getting rid of the smell of vomit!!

mrs_lds

my dd5 pucked up really badly last in the car and we have a horrendous smell with all the residue. Any ideas please to clean my appreciation in advance
thankyou

jonny2510

Don't know about car carpets, but have thrown up on many house carpets in my time!

I've always just used hair shampoo, and a damp cloth. Lost of scrubbing, and keep rinsing out the cloth.

You could use some Bicarb of soda too to soak up the dampness (and smells) afterwards.

It sometimes takes 2-3 applications of the shampoo, to completely remove the smells.

(Thinking about it, as it's a car, you may want to dry the carpet afterwards with a hairdryer - or if it's dry enough leave the door or window open for a bit too, to air it out),

HTH

Carolyntia

I've found that some warm diluted disinfectant usually does the trick. Wring the cloth out quite well so it doesn't leave everything too soggy and try to leave the windows open a little.

pollys

Remember my dd doing this, we cleaned with disinfectant then sprayed with febreeze. Cleaning it out of the air vents was a bit trickier!!!

RDA

Place a bowl of vinegar in the car overnight.

Pink.

Hi mrs lds,

The advice on these threads may help:

Getting rid of the smell of vomit!!

Cleaning up um vomit

Cleaning sick from wool rug?

Help please my house smells of sick

I'll add your thread to the most recent of those later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

katholicos

Pink-winged wrote: »

Hi mrs lds,

The advice on these threads may help:

Getting rid of the smell of vomit!!

Cleaning up um vomit

Cleaning sick from wool rug?

Help please my house smells of sick

I'll add your thread to the most recent of those later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

Oh my goodness, there really is a thread for everything on this board...this set of links would have come in so handy when my kids were younger and seemed to get every bug going at school!

mrs_lds

Fantastic thank you all so much for the suggestions. HOw would I manage without you great MSE'ers

Loulou2010

but does anyone know a good way of getting rid of the smell of sick? my ds has vomited in his bed and on the carpet and i just cant get rid of the smell

jackieglasgow

Lou once its clean and dried, sprinkle bicarbonate of soda on it and leave it for a couple of hours the vacuum. You can put it on the matress too. Also, leave a cut lemon in the room too to frshen the air and leave the windows open all day, and the door closed.xxx