Would you / how would you clean your washing machine after washing doggy diarrhoea covered bedding in it?

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Dog had diarrhoea. Her bedding is covered and I will be washing it on 90 degrees centigrade.

But urrghh, I am feeling a bit queasy about putting our own things in to wash after using the machine to wash doggy diarrhoea covered stuff. Probably am being completely irrational.

Any suggestions about what special measures I should take to clean the machine afterwards - if any?

uuurrgggghhh

The more I read about dog stuff the more I know why I could never have a dog

Dogs are lovely, lovely (usually). Why does only the horrid stuff about dogs make it onto Mumsnet?

Diarrhoea doesn't happen that often Cammelia

lol at Littlelapin!

Gosh, I am not even a dog lover but even I am shocked that there is not less sympathy for the dog in this situation. How is the poor thing hmc?

I wouldn't put dog bedding in our washing machine (that's just me!) but if I did then I would run it on a hot cycle with something like Napisan in it.

run empty machine at 95 with persil and cap of detol

Oh god you bunch of saps.

It'll be fine.
I bet theres more dead skin in there than dog diorreah.
And what about the skidders on your dh's pants?

Superalienstitch, your comment was ever so lovely

run another 90 deg. after with some white vinegar and napisan or dettol

i 'fessp i am a Sap where a doggy got the screaming abdabs

Sod the dog Dumbledoresgirl - I'm the poor thing, I had to clean it up

She's fine actually. Seems right as rain. Just a dicky tum

i would run a empty hot wash with soda crystals in it..........

I know what you mean hmc. I have 2 cats one of which has diarrhoea on the carpet in our kitchen (God help us, I know, yuck, unhygienic, waiting to have the money for a new kitchen) whenever he eats dried food. It is horrid having to clean it up.

But your dog sounded quite ill and I would have been worrying about adding vet bills to your 2 lots of 90 degrees cycles!

Thanks for your concern Dumbledoresgirl - I'm touched!

She's absolutely fine. Suspect she may have reacted to her worming tablets. She certainly doesn't seem miserable or lethargic etc.

Sympathies re having to clean it off carpet, eek!

There is a recommendation that it is good for your machine to wash on the hottest wash with nothing in every few months or so. So it would be fine and also you should not feel guilty as you are prolonging the life of your machine! In fact I would wash dogs bedding (yuck), do a 90 degree wash again with some bleach and then a normal cycle with nothing in (but that is just me!!!)

Ok, sorry to bore on, but I am in 2 minds about whether to use bleach or soda crystals (I have both in my cupboard - I don't have any napisan unfortunately which was other suggestion)

You see bleach 'kills all known germs - Dead', apparently!

But wondered if it might be a bit harsh on the washing machine.

I know soda crystals have good all round cleaning properties - but do soda crystals kill germs as well as shift dirt?

My dog was once sick in back of car and the sick had wriggly worms in it . Took him to vet and scrubbed car, but yuk yuk yuk.

Tbh can't see why washing doggy diarrhoea would be any different to dcs accidents vomit etc and you wouldn't balk at that would you?

I would wash it on hot wash, then send your machine through on another hot wash after wiping drum with disinfectant on a cloth to get rid of hairs. I wouldn't put anything else in, might damage the machine.

I would be rinsing off all the dreaded dog diarroheao (DDD) before putting it in the machine - down the drain outside, then spraying the DDD bedding with anti-bacterial spray, then dousing it with diluted bleach before even putting it in the washing machine. Then I would throw away rubber gloves, and run washing machine on a rinse wash, maybe with soda crystals, afterwards,

Then i would have a shower and go out for a long lunch with wine, and without dog.

Good luck, HMC!

Wisteria - i would aply same pre-wash anti-bacterial and bleach precautions.

Does anyone just stick stuff in the machine with these bodily fluids still adhering?

Well obviously would rinse the bedding through before putting it in machine, the same as I would if it was childrens accidents, but seriously think a hot wash would be enough, the hairs left in drum afterwards are more annoying tome anyway and I still can't see why dog diarrheoa is different (washing wise) to humans - but maybe I'm just a dirty scutter .

would soda crystals and bleach cause a major incident??

Oh urggh at the vomit with worms!

Blu - that wasn't the half of it. Before I got to the bedding I had to don marigolds and use kitchen roll to clean up puddles of dog diarhhoea on utility room floor. Also had to scrub in places where it had dried on overnight (which released 'fresh' odours)

Then I had to make rafts of newspaper islands for me to stand on (positioned where the diarrhoea hadn't been) whilst I mopped the floor where the poo had been with a bleach solution.

Then had to bleach and wash out the bucket and remove the mop head (with my bare hands - couldn't get 'purchase' with my marigolds on) to bin it. Have binned the marigolds too of course.

etc - it's been a shit morning. Excuse the pun

Oh and dh discovered it this morning at 06.45. Comes to find me "We have a situation" - he didn't stick around very long - suddenly had to get to a breakfast meeting really early

I'd have thought that the doggy germs were slightly less dangerous to humans than the germs from human vomit, poo, etc.
I'd just scrape off the three-dimensional bits, bung it in machine on hot cycle, then do an empty hot cycle afterwards for peace of mind.

Wisteria - it probably isn't that different. It just seems more disgusting!