washing blood out of a white shirt

celebrate

sorry if this is the wrong place for asking this, just needed some advice

my daughter has a lot of nose bleeds, if i catch it quick obviously the blood will wash out quite easily from her clothes. But this time it happened at school and she came home with a sleeve full of dried blood (soooo cross with teachers but thats another story...)

Stupidly I thought soaking it in v hot near boiling water and some oxygel would help disperse the blood but have just read somehwere that this sets the stain.

There is still a massive stain and i have tried manual scrubbing etc , is there anything else i can do? should i just throw the shirt out and buy more(it was new and only worn a few weeks!!:mad:)Anyone any expeience with bleach or any other products that might work??

Also find the same problem with my son.... when he's been playing footy if i wash his clothes straight away i can get the mud off, if his dad has just put the clothes in the laundry and I don't see them for a acouple of days I find the stains really hard to wash out even withthe fancy oxygel and soaking.

Any advice much appreciated, thanks in advance

LJM

if its wet blood i usually sprinkle on salt as it draws out the blood perhaps you could damp it and try not sure if it would work if it has been dried in though

Torry_Quine

Blood stained clothes should always be soaked in cold water with salt. It may be too late for the current stain but good advice for the future.

tizerbelle

I've had really good results with vanish powder in the past. Not tried on blood but it did get a dried in hair-dye stain from the back of a top (hairdresser was a tad clumsy that day). Took a while but soaked in water and the vanish powder, held under the water with a plate it did remove the stain completely - fair few hours though and didn't damage the top at all (or change/fade the colour)

meritaten

I would ask on Old Style - they are fantastic at things like this! but whats the story with the teachers?

Counting_Pennies_2

Napisan is brilliant at getting awful stains out.

Find it in the baby sections of supermarkets. I think it originated for soaking soiled nappies. So it gets absolutely anything out of clothes.

Soak overnight, wash, if still there, soak once more.

hth

celebrate

meritaten wrote: »

I would ask on Old Style - they are fantastic at things like this! but whats the story with the teachers?

apparently she was sent to the toilets with her hand cupped under her nose, it was so full of blood the blood was dripping down her arm but she was too scared to put her arm down to stop it running down her arm , anyway must have been alot of blood as it leake dout her cupped hand anyway -apparently she had to clean the bathroom floor.

i told her she should have tried to rinse out her shirt sleeve or asked the teacher to ring me but they weren't bothered, no-one went with her to the toilet and the receptionist came to check on her later, she is 9 and its a private school!!!

ps whats an old style??

Janepig

I find Vanish spray really good on a variety of stains (including blood) and I tend to spray the stain on the inside and outside of the garment, and also use a scoop of vanish powder in the drawer, and that way I've got rid of the most awful stains that I never thought would come out.

Jxx

Gingernutty

Cold water, a specialist soaker like Napisan (as the lady suggested above), Biotex - or (if you like to see bubbles), hydrogen peroxide.

As you have a white shirt, the world is your lobster, with a few drops of bleach if necessary.

Heat denatures the proteins and sets the stain into the fibres - always go cold for blood.

starjumper

celebrate wrote: »

ps whats an old style??

It's another board on this site which is basically populated with fabulous people expert in all manner of stain removal, cleaning, decluttering, cooking and baking as well as crafts. Very clever lot and always have an answer for any household problem you may encounter.

I second the napisan suggestion by the way!

stiltwalker

Not sure it would ork on a stain this large but for smaller marks an old sewing hint may help, your own spit gets your own blood out - something to do with th enzymes or something but does work, I've even used this when I've pricked my finger sewing a wedding dress and got the blood out of silk.