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How to Remove Blood stains Without Chloride?

07/11/2007 3:27 PM

I need a help to clean a old blood stain in hospital clothes, bedspread, etc.

Can somebody have a formulation to clean that stains, without chloride because their are color clothes.

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Re: How to Remove Blood stains Without Chloride?

07/11/2007 6:27 PM

I looked this one up

http://www.wisebread.com/6-great-ways-to-remove-stains-with-household-products

Blood: If you're an axe-wielding murder or a pre-menopausal woman, this one is definitely going to come in handy. But heed caution, do not use this on anything that will bleach out.
Just pour some regular hydrogen peroxide from the drugstore, let it soak, and make sure you wash your item in cold water.

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Re: How to Remove Blood stains Without Chloride?

07/11/2007 8:14 PM

Peroxide will do!

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Re: How to Remove Blood stains Without Chloride?

07/11/2007 11:46 PM

I've no answer to your question (I don't do the laundry ) but I would like to ask something.

In some hospitals, blood stains are not removed but the whole garment/sheet is handled as if it were Death itself and incinerated. Is it normal procedure for a hospital to just clean the sheets and not incinerate them, or is a case-to-case thing?

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Re: How to Remove Blood stains Without Chloride?

07/12/2007 8:39 AM

I am pretty sure that hospitals (in the US at least) have to throw away blood stained sheets.

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Re: How to Remove Blood stains Without Chloride?

07/13/2007 11:54 AM

From what I have seen, hospital and commercial laundries have the technology to clean blood stained bedding. High temperature is used to sterilize bedding, but not for the initial cycle as that would set the blood stain.

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Re: How to Remove Blood stains Without Chloride?

07/12/2007 9:31 AM

In some hospitals, blood stains are not removed but the whole garment/sheet is handled as if it were Death itself and incinerated.

Having worked in many hospitals worldwide, I can tell you there are different sources of (blood) stained cloths.

During surgery disposable (non wowen) cloths are used, and disposed.

Regular bed linen every now and then get stained with blood. In this case, they are usually placed into a labeled plastic bag for special laundering. This process is done at high temperatures by extremely aggressive soaps + bleach, leaving no traces of blood nor any potential contaminant alive.

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Re: How to Remove Blood stains Without Chloride?

07/13/2007 3:07 AM

This process is done at high temperatures

You mean like an autoclave? I guess that would get the linen sterilized sufficiently then. Thanks.

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Re: How to Remove Blood stains Without Chloride?

07/13/2007 11:23 AM

You mean like an autoclave?

No, such a process would be by far to expensive and time-consuming (considering the large amounts of sheets any hospital washes day by day).

Hospitals use industrial steam heated washing machines, and do the laundry at temperatures between 70 and 90 degrees. Ironing is also done at very high temperatures as well.

This process does not actually sterilize the clothes, the remaining "bacterial burden" is low enogh to make this procedure safe.

The bacterial burden is the amount of infective organisms per unit of surface. Labs usually determine this value prior and after different medical processes in order to establish effectivity of the method.

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Re: How to Remove Blood stains Without Chloride?

07/12/2007 12:16 AM

"Urine Be Gone" is sold in spray bottles by pet stores. It is an enzyme that is alleged to completely remove urine stains. It may help with the removal of the dried blood serum which would release the red corpuscles for removal by other agents.

OTOH it may be totally ineffective.

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Re: How to Remove Blood stains Without Chloride?

07/12/2007 9:46 AM

Find a good enzyme cleaner with surfactant added.

Chloride is just sterilizing

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Re: How to Remove Blood stains Without Chloride?

07/13/2007 1:08 AM

Hydrogen peroxide does a very good job of this.

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