Ask The Internet – Poop Edition
How is it possible that breastmilk poop (which currently smells very similar to caramel pudding) can leave such a permanent reminder of it’s presence?
Bella has some very nice and rather costly clothing, much of which is now poo coloured.
When you go eight days between ‘movements,’ there’s a whole heck of a lot of it.
Have you ever had any luck with removing infant crap from clothing? (Or blankets, bouncy chairs, carseats, swings, intellitainers…it’s everywhere!)
Share your secrets.
April 25th, 2008 at 5:29 am
I soak them in a bucket of cool watet for with liquid detergent for a week. Literally for a week. Then wash them normally – if the stain hasn’t come out, then I don’t dry it (that sets the stain), then I soak for a week again, then wash again. This gets the stain out, but oten Brooke has outgrown the clothes by the time the stain is gone
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April 25th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Really? That’s awesome. I don’t have that much patience!
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April 25th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
SUN!
Seriously! Put the items out in the sun on the line whatever, even a sunny window. We use cloth diapers and they would get that yellow stain and i would put them in the sun and POOF gone. If they are already stained and the sun doesn’t work Borax might (but it may bleach it out too like the colour of the clothes)
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April 25th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
I have heard wiping them with wipes works. I also have some stuff called Awesome. And it is just that. It gets out anything
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April 25th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Sorry…I’m at a loss on that one!
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April 25th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
I swear by the following: Rinse off excess poo and/or scrub the area with some cold water and liquid detergent. Spray the stain with a good stain spray (I have had good luck with the Amway pretreater), then soak overnight in a basin filled with cold water and all-fabric bleach. Launder normally if the stain is gone, or soak longer if it is not. Good luck!
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April 25th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Chelle – Never thought of that! Did it with my diapers but…duh.
Jackie – Can I borrow some if sun doesn’t work?
Shelly – Is there a natural version of all fabric bleach that you know of? (It probably wouldn’t work, right?)
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April 26th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Sure, no problem
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April 26th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I toss ‘em. Yeah. Really. I’m a bad mother.
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April 26th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
I have had huge success with using hydrogen peroxide. I make my own spray bottle solution from 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide and water. I wash the yellow poop (which I think smells like microwave popcorn) out with soap and cold water then I spray the crap out of the stain with the hydrogen peroxide solution and let sit for a couple of hours. I wash all diaper loads with vinegar and baking soda in addition to the detergent and for the most part, those yellow stains come right out. Works on any food stain too – blueberries are no longer feared in our house!
I also agree that sun works great too. Wash your diapers in cold water and hang to dry making sure the soiled side faces the sun.
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April 28th, 2008 at 5:11 am
The main thing that seems to make a huge difference for me is to immediately wash the items. That almost always does the trick. Of course this isn’t always possible with being busy with two little ones… so that’s when Shout and Tide come to the rescue.
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April 28th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Karly – heh. That’s what I did too. But…I have some very expensive clothes I’d like to save.
Reesh – great idea! Thanks for the tip!
Kookaburra – good idea, but I suck at laundry and time management. Not a great combination.
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April 28th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I second the SUN!
Yep, wash normally (try to get as much of the poop out as you can by rinsing in cold water first) and them let them dry in the sun. Almost every time the stain is miraculously gone. If not, wash and try again. But it really does work.
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