How do you get blood out of clothes?

Question

My little sister started her menstruation and she got blood in some spots on her bed and i wanna know how to get it out with out buying anything so do you have any like home remades to getting blood out of the sheet? by the way i cant use bleach cause its a grey sheet.

Answer 1

BEFORE you throw this in the washer, hopefully you havent yet! pour hydrogen peroxide on the stain(s), let it sit a minute, then press stains out with dry paper towel. rinse with hot water, press with paper towel again, repeat these steps if necessary. If you already tried washing, you can still try these steps. Hydrogen Peroxide will bubble up on blood. This works for any stains caused by blood. GOOD LUCK!

Answer 2

try peroxide. pour some where the spot is. have used for many stains and it works wonders.

Answer 3

The first step when removing a blood stain is to dab (or blot) up as much blood as possible with a cotton rag or paper towel. Cotton really is the best material to get that blood up because cotton is one of the most absorbent organic fabrics. It's a double-edged sword, considering how popular cotton is as a clothing fabric. If you can't find any cotton around, you should get a paper towel on that spot ASAP. There's a technique for dabbing (or blotting, as the pros call it) a potential stain. Scrunch up that cloth (or towel) the way your mom did when she saw you had food on your face. Then, rock your index finger and the cloth from the outside edge of the blood spot, slowly working your way toward the center of the stain. This way you'll avoid spreading the stain further outward.  

Once you've dabbed up the extra blood, you'll want to run that blood stain under some cold water. Cold water is essential, because hot water will simply "cook" the blood stain into your clothes. That's bad, because cleaning a protein-based stain that's been set with heat is like trying to kick an oak tree down. Maybe Bruce Lee could do it, but he's dead--so that's that. Now you have two options here. Dab the blood stain with cold water using a rag, or you can take those clothes off and run cold water over (and hopefully through) the blood spot. Running cold water over a blood stain is probably the best way to get a blood stain out before it sets.  

After you've flushed the blood stain with cold water, you'll want to pretreat the stain with either hydrogren peroxide or a detergent with enzymes. Stop right here. Check the tag on the fabric in question.

What does it tell you to do in the event of a stain?

If it needs dry cleaning, don't bother pretreating, just get it to your dry cleaner as soon as possible. If you're dealing with white clothing, you might want to try hydrogen peroxide--the environmentally safe bleaching agent. If you're dealing with colors, you should try an enzymatic detergent like one of those found in the sidebar to your right. Your best bet is to mix a big bowl of cold water and one of these two solutions, letting the blood stained fabric soak a while before throwing it in the laundry.  

Now that you've prevented the blood stain from setting, you should probably wash those clothes in cold water with a detergent that uses enzymes. Enzymes are proteins that have been engineered or isolated by biochemical engineers to specifically target and break down other proteins like blood, sweat, urine, vomit, and f***s. So, maybe while you're letting your clothes soak in the pretreatment solution, you should get your *** to the store and pick up a bottle of Seventh Generation or Nature's Miracle laundry detergent. A lot of "natural" or "earth-friendly" detergents use enzymes because they're biodegradeable. I wouldn't use enzymes on wool or silk unless the detergent explicitly states that those fabrics won't be damaged by using that detergent on them.  

Clothes that have been potentially blood stained should only be air dryed in a cooler, shaded environment. Whatever you do, don't try to dry those clothes in a dryer after you've treated a blood stain. There is still a possibility that you haven't cleaned the blood stain out entirely and that you could still set the stain with heat accidentally. You may have to try pretreating and laundering the article of clothing in question a few times before the blood stain is gone completely. You may even have to try bleach. Bleach should be considered a last resort because domestic and industrial use of chlorine bleach has been linked to cancer, infertility, defective fetuses, and immune system deficiencies.  

Answer 4

When you notice a stain like this, fill a bucket / container with COLD tap water and lots of salt (about 4 tablespoons).  Mix it and make sure as much of the salt is dissolved as possible.  Immerse the stained item and soak overnight.  Then wash it as usual the next day.  This has always worked really well for me.

Answer 5

My grandma always told me to soak in cold water and than wash it and it usually helps; if not resort to buying something from store

Answer 6

Place into a bowl or the sink run some cold water and sprinkle some normal household salt onto the stain, give it a gentle rub or scrub around it then just put it onto a normal wash, also it maybe a good idea to add some liquid stain remover into the machine, and this should be done while the stain is fresh, or make sure you don't put it into hot water as that will just set the stain.