Laundry/colored clothes - 2questions

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crazyme
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Laundry/colored clothes - 2questions

Postby crazyme » Tue Oct 24, 2017 5:25 pm

My sister has been staying in my spare bedroom and is now in hospital with C-diff. She had some clothes on a chair in the room. Questions-- 1) do those clothes have to be washed if she didn't wear them but they were out in the open in the room?? And 2) what can u use to wash "colored" clothes that she wore, but cannot be bleached?? Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

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Re: Laundry/colored clothes - 2questions

Postby NanciT » Tue Oct 24, 2017 9:59 pm

I wash everything with bleach just to be on the safe side

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Re: Laundry/colored clothes - 2questions

Postby georgina » Wed Oct 25, 2017 12:33 am

If you do not want to ruin good clothes with bleach , you can purchase a sporocid solution that can be used on fabric , decontaminate the clothes in a water mixed with sporocid solution for 2 minutes and put them in the washing machine at high temperature. In Europe there is a solution that can be ordered at manufacturer , is very efficient , called Antigone , kills all spores including Cdiff spores in 1 minute.

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Re: Laundry/colored clothes - 2questions

Postby crazyme » Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:40 am

Thanks very much

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Re: Laundry/colored clothes - 2questions

Postby Zapper » Thu Oct 26, 2017 8:23 pm

I have been able to successfully bleach colored clothes with no issue. My drycleaned work clothes however, I have not tried to.


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