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Title: Blood
Post by: Thor on July 26, 2011, 10:07:59 PM
What gets blood out of white towels effectively??
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: FreeBorn on July 26, 2011, 10:14:29 PM
Black dye.  :tongue:

Srsly, pretty much nothing. On the bright side it's a towel, so what. It's not a dinner jacket.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: seahorse513 on July 26, 2011, 10:17:04 PM
What gets blood out of white towels effectively??

I would recommend color safe bleach versus straight bleach. I would gently dab it on little by little till you have the desired effect, too much at once would burn and it will turn yellow.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: thundley4 on July 26, 2011, 10:21:56 PM
Not using white towels is the best thing to do.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: Thor on July 26, 2011, 10:23:40 PM
Not using white towels is the best thing to do.

It's a leftover from my Haze Gray and underway days. I only own white towels & washcloths.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: MrsSmith on July 26, 2011, 10:24:59 PM
Fresh blood, cold water and salt can help.  Stain remover will help some, if you let it sit a while, but it won't get it all if the blood has been there for hours. 
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: thundley4 on July 26, 2011, 10:42:34 PM
It's a leftover from my Haze Gray and underway days. I only own white towels & washcloths.


I think I have one or two of those left, but they are mostly gray since they are well over twenty years old.  My wife keeps them way back in the linen closet.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: Thor on July 27, 2011, 07:20:35 AM
I think I have one or two of those left, but they are mostly gray since they are well over twenty years old.  My wife keeps them way back in the linen closet.

I don't have any of my Navy towels left, but I did develop a preference for white towels/ washcloths. Nothing better than a clean, white towel that is soft and smells a little of  bleach, IMO.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: IassaFTots on July 27, 2011, 07:52:28 AM
I don't have any of my Navy towels left, but I did develop a preference for white towels/ washcloths. Nothing better than a clean, white towel that is soft and smells a little of  bleach, IMO.

I agree completely!  I have all white towels as well.  But, I have used every remedy under the sun, and have never been successful getting blood out of a towel.  Get on up to Anna's Linen's.  I am sure they have one up there and buy a new one.  Congratulations, you have a new shop towel!

Now, about the blood???  You ok?
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: Eupher on July 27, 2011, 09:30:58 AM
Whassamatta, Thor, you get your period the other day?

 :rotf: :lmao:  :fuelfire:   :tongue:
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: Chris_ on July 27, 2011, 09:52:05 AM
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c333/feticirad/BillyMays.jpg)

OxyClean: Billy Mays knows blood.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: CG6468 on July 27, 2011, 10:18:03 AM
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c333/feticirad/BillyMays.jpg)

OxyClean: Billy Mays knows blood.

Not any more. He be dead.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: compaqxp on July 27, 2011, 11:32:41 AM
What gets blood out of white towels effectively??

Depends on how much. Was it from a simple cut or did you kill someone? If the latter I recommend burning the evidence, it always works for me.  :tongue:
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: Thor on July 27, 2011, 07:14:15 PM
Whassamatta, Thor, you get your period the other day?

 :rotf: :lmao:  :fuelfire:   :tongue:

Ummm, NO, I'm NOT an Army type!!  :bird: :loser: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :rotf: :fuelfire: :tongue:

No, in all seriousness, I had a scab on my knee from a previous laceration (that's a "cut" for you simpletons*. You KNOW who you are!!) Anyways, I hit my healing knee on a sharp corner of the desk. It hurt a little, but not terribly bad.  I looked down and I was bleeding profusely (like a stuck pig*) There was a pool of blood on the floor and a stream of blood running down my shin. The nearest absorbent material was a washcloth, which I had used to wipe my sweaty brow. I cleaned up  my shin and then the floor with it. I then went to locate a few band-aids and applied them to the wound.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: catsmtrods on July 27, 2011, 07:26:21 PM
Hydrogen peroxide?
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: Chris_ on July 27, 2011, 07:32:40 PM
Hydrogen peroxide?
I've heard that OxyClean is just dehydrated hydrogen peroxide.  I have a tub and never got it to clean like I expected.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: IassaFTots on July 27, 2011, 09:06:10 PM
Shop towel. 
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: Chris_ on July 27, 2011, 09:08:04 PM
Scott shop towels?  Those things are good for picking up blood.

Had a huge wart on my finger that I decided to cut off with a razor blade.  Man, did that thing bleed.  I ended up going to a doctor and having it cauterized with a little soldering-iron type thing.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: Ballygrl on July 27, 2011, 09:58:16 PM
Let it soak in some peroxide, after it soaks for a while wash out the peroxide with cold water NOT HOT WATER, then add it into the whites of the laundry, you can add hot water at that point, add bleach and oxy clean.

BTW peroxide is a trick the medical profession uses, everyone at some point gets blood on them.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: Ballygrl on July 27, 2011, 10:01:29 PM
Scott shop towels?  Those things are good for picking up blood.

Had a huge wart on my finger that I decided to cut off with a razor blade.  Man, did that thing bleed.  I ended up going to a doctor and having it cauterized with a little soldering-iron type thing.

OMG! don't ever do that to a wart, or a skin tag, those things don't stop bleeding at all on their own.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on July 28, 2011, 10:15:21 AM
Ummm, NO, I'm NOT an Army type!! 

Obviously.  We generally develop a preference for brown or tan towels.  Well...except for the French Army - they like to have something white handy to tie to a pole (They can't use their rifles for that since they went to a bullpup design years ago).
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: Wineslob on July 28, 2011, 12:31:52 PM
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhSKQ_Hq-V0[/youtube]
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: IassaFTots on July 28, 2011, 01:54:53 PM
Scott shop towels?  Those things are good for picking up blood.

Had a huge wart on my finger that I decided to cut off with a razor blade.  Man, did that thing bleed.  I ended up going to a doctor and having it cauterized with a little soldering-iron type thing.

Naw....the bloody washcloth needs to be designated as a shop towel now.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: BEG on July 28, 2011, 06:25:58 PM
OMG! don't ever do that to a wart, or a skin tag, those things don't stop bleeding at all on their own.

Speaking of skin tags, my husband had one. He went to the doctor to have two moles biopsied.  The doctor told him to tie some thread around the base of the skin tag and in about a week it would fall off.  It turned all black and gross and fell off just like he said. You can't even tell where it was.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: Ballygrl on July 28, 2011, 09:08:43 PM
Speaking of skin tags, my husband had one. He went to the doctor to have two moles biopsied.  The doctor told him to tie some thread around the base of the skin tag and in about a week it would fall off.  It turned all black and gross and fell off just like he said. You can't even tell where it was.

It cuts off the blood supply so it'll fall off, can't believe Doctor's actually tell people to do that though on their own.
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: Eupher on July 29, 2011, 08:07:55 AM
It cuts off the blood supply so it'll fall off, can't believe Doctor's actually tell people to do that though on their own.

I can. Even an overworked doctor has to think, "This is something that this guy can take care of himself." Skin tags reoccur, and it's wasteful to run to the doc every time you have one.

As for me, I get them here and there and I just snip 'em off. They bleed for awhile, but it stops.

Of course, if a skin tag is pretty damn big, it's gonna bleed longer. At that point, it's time for a tourniquet.  :-)
Title: Re: Blood
Post by: BEG on July 30, 2011, 04:13:30 AM
It cuts off the blood supply so it'll fall off, can't believe Doctor's actually tell people to do that though on their own.

He said it would look better in the end if he did it this way than if he had it cut off. He said he would do it if my husband wanted him to but my husband decided try try it.