How to Remove Blood Stains
You must
have had some encounter from blood stains. It could be from a cut finger,
bleeding nose, or menstrual flow on your favorite white cotton panties. When
dried, blood stains could be very hard to remove because on exposure to air,
the hemoglobin in the blood would bind with the fibers in clothing. It is
easiest to remove blood when it is still wet.
1. Saline
solution: The best and easiest
way to remove a blood stain, especially fresh, is with saline (salt water). The
Red Blood Cells are filled with protein (high osmolality) and need to be in
osmotic balance with their surrounding fluid. If exposed to water (low
osmolality), the water will rush into the cells, bursting them. A saline
solution (higher osmolality) would tend to shrink them, making the blood more removable
from the fabric.
Make a saline solution from
1 cup of salt with 2 quarts water. Let the stain soak in the solution for 30
minutes. Thereafter, blot off the stain carefully with a cotton cloth dipped in
the salt solution. This will remove the stain with no damage to the fabric, and
no one would tell it ever got stained before.
2. Hydrogen Peroxide: If the
above method does not work for you, you may as well want to try dabbing a
little bit of hydrogen peroxide on the stain and rinse. Hydrogen peroxide can
wear down the fibers of your clothing and weaken the fabric, so you might want
to be careful when applying it. When the stain is removed, wash the clothing in
cold water with detergent or mild soap depending on the specifications of the
fabric.
3. Other methods: Other
methods recommended include soaking the stain in milk overnight and then
washing.
You may as well try
spitting on it, especially if it is your own blood. It may work even better to
rub with both spit and mild soap simultaneously. Sounds bizarre. Ain’t it?
NB: Never use warm water. Arm water speeds up the setting process and makes
the blood stain more difficult to remove.
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