OFF TOPIC, but this is RCTN and some one will know

DD had huge road rash on her leg. Ordinarily, no problem, but one restless night, she knocked off the bottom sheet and mattress cover and "oozed" on the mattress.

how do I get blood off the mattress

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Cheryl Isaak
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You can try hydrogen peroxide. Pour some on the spot, and blot with paper towels, keep working on it. If it's not a huge amount - well, this sounds ucky, but a person's own saliva will break down a blood spot from themselve. Some enzyme reason that I don't recall. But, try the peroxide thing - it worked on my DM's dining room chair when someone (not me) had an accident. The mattress will be wet but as you blot the blood will come out.

Ellice

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Ellice K.

Peroxide should work. I happen to know it works on possum blood on concrete. It'll bubble and get warm. Oxiclean would also probably work. Hope E. feels better!

Sara

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Sara

Oxyclean works well with blood but spit is better.

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lucretiaborgia

If it is fresh blood Baby wipe neutralize and removes it even than spit most times. We have been doing that at the bridal shop for years ans it doesn't soak the fabric. Peroxide will work but could weak some natural fibers.

Baby wipes were designed to take care of body fluids easily (this include all thing bodily) and is less disturbing to the customers when someone is pricked during a fitting. Salt solution will also work, but much slower. We use peroxide as a last restore on OLD blood. Been doing this for over 30 years now and I'm the stain expert at work.

Bobbie V.

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bobbieviorritto

When I was working, I would frequently get some blood on my lab coat. Peroxide worked very well. Gill

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Gillian Murray

Bobbie - found it days later - after she left for camp. So far the hydrogen peroxide is working and I don't have to worry about the birds.

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Cheryl Isaak

Peroxide is what we use most of the time when I'm doing EMS/ER work - all of the crew on our clothes. Especially for us EMS types who wear dark blue in this area. The saliva thing is great for your own blood - for anyone else's it is just like any other liquid that you're diluting things with. Some class I took - maybe microbiology - a couple of years ago actually went into the science of why the saliva reaction works to break down and remove blood stains - but it's one of those autologous (sp?) things - the enzyme in the saliva is specifically tied to something in the blood. So, if you make a mess on yourself, your own saliva is the best (assuming you can spare the fluid). Aside from that, good old hydrogen peroxide (not at the hair bleach concentration). Things like oxiclean work similarly.

Ellice

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Ellice K.

okay, so here's a tangent that someone will know: When I was growing up, the old wives' tale was that if you had a cut/scrape, it was okay to let the dog lick it, as the saliva has healing (coagulating?) properties. True, false, or indifferent?

It's a moot point for me now, with no dog in the house. Do those of you with dogs and/or medical training have any insights? Have others heard this?

sue

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Susan Hartman

A dogs mouth has bacteria we do not need ! I used to get mad with my son for lying on the floor, watching tv and allowing our lab to lick his face. Finally I came in one day and there's the dog licking his face so I casually said, that's nice, he was licking his penis just now lol Never happened again.

A friend pushed her stroller through some dog do on the sidewalk. Toddler comes in contact with the poo getting some on her hand. Toddler licks hand. Mum took toddler to ER and they decided to pump her stomach.

So I figured thereafter, dog do, dog licking then licking humans = not desirable.

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lucretiaborgia

Ah, the schoolyard version I grew up with was that you licked it yourself, which from an immunological viewpoint is probably better... your immune system already knows about the bugs in your own mouth.

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Kay Lancaster

False

LOL - I grew up with the same thing. Not so good, but definitely not as bad as having a cat lick. Dogs, and most animals, lick their wounds to clean them. But, their mouths have plenty of dirt/bacteria in them, which we humans do not completely share - unless you're snuffling in the lawn, etc. Domestic dogs get shots to help keep them from suffering infections or disease from the crap on the ground, dirty water, and the like - we don't get those inoculations. Human coagulation chain is really interesting, but it essentially starts with your own body's system of anti-bodies. Dog saliva may have something that helps them, but not us - what we were told in the last med/trauma/wound care classes that I took is that it's not good for humans. Cats are worse in that their tongues are rough, and they have the toxoplasmosis (sp?) thing - carry feline bacteria that are definitely bad for humans.

Not that this stops us from letting the dog lick - they seem compelled to do it - not wounds, but I think it's part of the pack identification, and grooming thing.

Just my thoughts -

Ellice

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Ellice K.

When my son was at creche, (he's now 45!) he was bitten by another little boy. The wound became badly infected, and when I took him to the doctor, he said that was usual. I said, "But it was a CHILD who bit him!", and he said human bites were worse than dog bites for infection!

Joyce >> okay, so here's a tangent that someone will know: When I was growing up,

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Joyce in RSA

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those are rather interesting. I suspect next time I have a scrap I won't lick it if I can wash it off easily, but in an emergency (like out hiking) I'll give it a quick lick.

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Cheryl Isaak

Just remember - the worst scrapes - on the ice rink. Amazing amount of bacteria, and just dirt. Ugh. People seem to think because it's cold it's clean, but not the case at all - anytime someone gets cut on the rink it's important to be sure their tetanus vaccination is up to date. It's teeming with horrid stuff.

Ellice

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Ellice K.

the only time E or K was hurt at a rink was when E got toe nail whacked off by a door. That got a tetanus booster. I'm always up to date on those. C

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Cheryl Isaak

I've heard this, too, many times, and that dog's mouths are cleaner than humans'.

Joan (I don't worry about being germ-free....they're ultimately good for us so we can build up immunities to them. The human race is going to get veeeeery sick in the future if we keep killing all these germs with antibacterial soaps!!! They're already starting to discover this.)

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Joan E.

I`ve heard that one before, but my view is who on earth want`s a dog who`s guaranteed to have licked it`s backside at least once a day, to lick an open wound? Much as I love my dog, I wouldn`t DREAM of it! LOL!

Pat

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Pat P

I absolutely concur with you here. I was raised that we "all eat a peck of dirt before we die". I believe in building up natural immunity......and this bactericidal fetish is just plain nuts. OK..so it is a zillion years since I was in the medical field, but we would frequently culture out E.Coli in people's "samples" to be tastefully put. They were sick, but 99% also got over it. Same with salmonella, staph aureus etc.

Now it is just panic..and I think is misplaced. Gowdom rules!!

Gill

Off to the grocery store, and ..no, I don't wipe the handles of the cart with their fancy little sterilising tissues.

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Gillian Murray

While I agree with people being overly silly about germs that begs the original query about how clean is a dog mouth for humans ??

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lucretiaborgia

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