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Period blood stains laundry issue

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highgirl · 28/05/2013 13:15

If you wash laundry and some pants come out still stained with period blod stains do you re wash everything or just the pants? Thanks a bit ocd here

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Dahlialover · 28/05/2013 13:19

just the pants. with biotex.

Next time biotex them first (prewash), or put a bit in the drawer with the normal wash.

hugoagogo · 28/05/2013 19:19

The best thing for blood stains is a little cold water and a lot of salt.

ShatnersBassoon · 28/05/2013 19:24

I don't bother washing any of it again. I just relegate stained pants to being worn only during my period. Stains don't make things unhygienic.

YDdraigGoch · 28/05/2013 19:25

Agree with Shatners.

Mintyy · 28/05/2013 19:28

Soak for 2 hours in plain cold water.

Then soak for 4 hours in warm (not lukewarm) water with biotex or bio powder.

Wash at 60 with bio powder.

Line dry inside out on a sunny day.

ohcluttergotme · 28/05/2013 19:29

I soak overnight with cold water & salt & then relegated as period pants. Now starting this for dd. she doesn't seem to get that she needs to wear tampax when she has her period...sigh!

Jestrin · 29/05/2013 22:42

Agree with shatners too

HeavenlyYoni · 29/05/2013 23:00

Wet the stain and put on a load of bicarb, leave it for as long as possible and then scrape off when dry. Also works on mattresses.

Slight hi-jack but stain related. DP got a curry stain on his new shirt - turmeric or something, and I wet the stain, put neat Ariel gel or whatever it was on it, and then re-washed - stain had lightened but needed another go, so left it again overnight with the gel on, and the stain was almost gone. Put on line in sunlight once washed again and there was no trace

tabbycat15 · 30/05/2013 04:06

My mil told me to soak in cold water & salt too. It definite loosens the stain then wash as normal after in a normal wash with biological powder.

AdoraBell · 30/05/2013 04:18

Just the pants here too. I can't get Biotex (abroad) so I use cold water with lot's of Salt.

treaclesoda · 30/05/2013 04:54

If it bothers you a lot, it might help to think of it in a different way, in that stains are not dirt. Stains are patches of fabric that have been inadvertently dyed by something. So if your toddler takes a felt tip and draws on their t-shirt and it won't wash out, it's because it has dyed the fabric. Blood (period or otherwise) is the same - if a stain remains it's not dirt, it is because the blood has dyed the fabric.

When I discovered this it really helped me be less 'eww' about stains of all sorts. I still want them gone, obviously, but thinking of them like that really helps.

mathanxiety · 30/05/2013 05:03

It doesn't make any sense to rewash everything. What is left is stuck in the fabric. What has been washed out of the fabric has already mingled with other washed items and has been rinsed away. If you wanted to be OCD about it, you should technically be worried when you put any dirty clothes in with any other clothes, and more worried when everything comes out clean, because where has all the dirt gone...

If OCD is a problem go and get some help for it. You don't have to suffer or worry about things like this.

mathanxiety · 30/05/2013 05:05

If menstrual blood is a particular OCD problem you can tailor help for that.

olivo · 30/05/2013 09:10

I have "period pants" too. They go in a normal wash with the other clothes and a dose of Vanish but I keep them specifically for period days.

BehindLockNumberNine · 30/05/2013 09:18

I have black period pants. No stainage Smile

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