removing blood from white cotton sheets.

I once scratched a finger getting into a car in my white dem dress (dancing). Several marks from blood were made on the skirt 😱. Fortunately where we were doing the demonstration there was a ladies' loo with good hand dryers so, with the help of one of my team-mates, I rinsed the marks out with cold water and then (mostly) dried the dress under the hand drier. We were dancing outside and it was quite a hot sunny day so I positioned myself in a sunny spot to finish the drying process while we were waiting our turn.

On that occasion salt wasn't required, thank goodness.

Has anyone mentioned Shout? I always use it. Some of the blood and other stains may have been in place for days because I find them on clothes and bedding etc that have been put in the laundry basket awaiting my miracles. It has never failed me.

The initil approach should have been to soak the sheets in a luke warm solution of bio detergent. As someone has said the stain may be fixed now. However I have before now hung up a staned table cloth and used an artists pain bush to keep brushing the stains with bio solution straight from the bottle. Then after a week washing it in a mixture of bio and ordinary laundry powder.

When we lived abroad sun light did most things so you could try day after nay damping them an then leaving them to dry in full sunlight.

Let us know how you get on.

I’m a quilter and when pricked my finger used my own spit to remove the blood stain. Suggested by my teacher.