Help - how do I get rid of sick smell

[Sticki]

My dd was sick all over the carpet in her bedroom and in her cot last night. I have cleaned up with vanish and dettol but the smell lingers with a nice mask of dettol. Making me feel sick myself!

Any ideas please

I'm afraid I've just had to throw away ds's rug and duvet because he was sick in his sleep and didn't wake up and neither did I. The next morning you can imagine the smell! I washed the duvet but it still smelt. My mother said to scrub the rug with bicarbonate of soda but although that helped it still smelt. Thank heavens for a, wooden floors, be waterproof mattress cover, c he managed to miss precious stuffed dinosaur and silk scarf!

How someone can be sick in their sleep baffles me - he was surprised but unconcerned when he woke up.'Mummy - I think I need a morning bath!"

Sorry - none of this helps you - what about that stuff I can't stand the smell of - Fabreze? Might that help? And try the bicarb - I think it was too late for us, but you may be in time.

The concentrated disinfectant called 'Zoflora' is really good. You only need a tiny amount in water and scrub it on the carpet. My ds was silk with milk on our carpet and the zoflora got rid of it. You can get it in most supermarkets.

No solution I'm afraid but thought I'd share this.

Went out last night and got a cab home -cab was late due to one of their cars being off the road as someone had thrown up in it.

Anyway we "talked sick" on the journey and the taxi driver said nothing gets rid of the smell other than lots of cleaning and lots of time! One of his colleagues even has spare car seats so he can swap them and carry on working otherwise the smell is there for days!

Can't imagine anything worse than a taxi journey in a cab that smels of sick.

I think I heard somebody mention before if you use cat litter on it, it should abosrb the smell of the vomit.

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sprinkle lots of neat tea tree over the cot and carpet. I have done this several times for both vomit and pee and it has always worked.
put her to sleep somewhere else until the tea tree on the matress has completly dried in.

Just remembered. When dd was little she threw up all over herself and the car seat when we were on the A1. I was on my own with her and I was joined in a layby by a couple of incredibly helpful policemen, who gave me a packet of some wonderful orange smelling wipes that magically got rid of the smell on seat and child. "We've got to clean up all sorts" one of them said. The wipes were very slightly gritty.I wonder what they were. Any coppers on here? I'd love to get hold of some more - wipes, not policemen.

Washing carpet in a dilute solution of white vinegar and water definitely works and does not leave your house smelling of a chippy either! If the room in general smells, you can leave a solution of vinegar and water in a bowl in the room and the smells are absorbed. Febreze etc does nothing but mask the smell. That said, you have to be absolutely scrupulously clean and make sure you remove every dot of vomit otherwise the smell will never go.

From a weary old hand at this business!

Bicarb of soda works really well on the carpet, sprinkle it on, leave overnight, hoover up. The difficult bit is making sure you cover up every tiny splash, even the smallest one will cause the smell to linger. I can also second the white vinegar option.