How to get old blood stain off somethign that can't be soaked?

[unlucky83]

I have a good quality duvet that was left in a house I bought. Was left in the house while work was done so got a bit dusty and needs a really good wash...
Ideally at laundrette (it will only just about fit in my washing machine).
Problem is there is a blood streak on it - it looks like it could be period leaking [boak]

• but I know it isn't. (I didn't realise I'd bashed and my hand and it was bleeding until just after I'd moved the duvet.) Otherwise it is spotless.

Too embarrassed to take it to laundrette as it is - and suspect it will just set it even worse ...and it has already been on there for the best part of a year... Not even sure what I am going to do with it ...too good to bin/donate to animal shelter ...but first I have to get it clean! So any suggestions that don't involve soaking?

You could make a paste of Nspisan & just spot treat the area. Leave on for 10 mins & rub with a toothbrush. Use a dish cloth & wipe trying to rinse the area with cold water. Use kitchen roll to soak up the wet & then just leave to sir dry. Fairy liquid rubbed with a tooth brush might work once you loosen the stain with Nspisan.

You could make a paste of Napisan & just spot treat the area. Leave on for 10 mins & rub with a toothbrush. Use a dish cloth & wipe trying to rinse the area with cold water. Use kitchen roll to soak up the wet & then just leave to sir dry. Fairy liquid rubbed with a tooth brush might work once you loosen the stain with Nspisan.

• air dry

Sorry I've replied to this a couple of times - think I must keep getting distracted and forgetting to post!
Thanks !
Didn't have napisan - did the same with a bio powder paste and the toothbrush ...and it worked! Stain was only vaguely visible if you carefully looked for it...(now its gone altogether)
Actually just managed to fit it in my washing machine and wash but it will need a proper wash at the laundrette ...it was really tightly packed and if you look closely you can see bits where the water couldn't wash away the dust and it got trapped in creases ...its ok -but I'd be happier if I know the dust has gone...
(Lesson learned - not that I intend to be in this situation again - either should have taken them out of the building or at least put them in bin bags...)

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Cold water, when my dd was in hospital at 6 weeks old very poorly (she is 10 now) all of her vest etc got blood on them nice nurse told me to run under cold water and rub, as hot water sets the stain! IT WORKS, I have been doing it for 10 years now and it's never failed to get it out, even older dried on blood

My friend a retired nurse and mum-of-four took my nighties home from hospital after wound leaked badly and managed to get them perfectly clean by soaking overnight in cold water and salt. I was delighted as they were my best ones, and pleased to pass on the hint to others on the ward, including a couple of young nurses who didn't know about it.

It's funny about cold water and blood but I also found exactly the same! I was coming on to post about a recent clothes washing epiphany I had... that involved dried on blood on a sheet and padded undersheet (?). In my case it could have been period but I had nothing on my pyjamas and also had a small bloody crack on some eczema on my hand... so it might have been that. It was a deep stain about the size of a 50p and as I could change the sheets and had to prioritise other washes, it was hanging around in the basket for at least a week, so I was slightly resigned to having the sheet ruined.

I poured water on and rubbed in Dr Whoever's Red Stain Remover, also some ancient Vanish stick I had in the cupboard. Didn't look like it would do anything at all... but I put in the wash with the massive amount of powder recommended by Biotex when using as a prewash, ran the prewash setting on the machine (30 degrees), then the 60 degree wash, and the WHOLE lot came out. Not a shadow - I was amazed.

I have fiddled about and determined that smaller loads, coupled with run of the prewash with Biotex or other stain remover, rather than just adding the latter to the main wash, will do a good job on my toddler dirtied clothing.

I find soaking blood (and fruit) stains in cold water and salt works fantastically well - but this was so big almost impossible to soak/rinse/dry...idea of trying to get a soaking wet duvet squeezed into the washing machine put me off getting it too wet.
My hot stain removing tip would be uv light (sun) on tomato stains - read somewhere to soak in lemon juice and hang in the sun but found that if you keep something damp (just water but might need to wet again) and on the line outside even if not sunny the tomato stains will vanish...
(just revived two lost case white polo shirts - after 2-3 washes, soaking in bio powder, not letting them dry I still couldn't shift the food (gravy) stains. So left on line for a week (dampened occasionally) and the stains faded, another wash and so faint you can only see them if you really look - ready for staining again!)