Cleaning A MattressMattress StainsCleaning TipsPee StainsRemove StainsRemover ManchasWashing DetergentMattress ProtectorNew BedsForwardIf you have a young child or a pet in the house, chances are you at some point will have to deal with pee stains on a mattress even if you use a mattress protec…Here's how to clean a mattress and remove vomit, urine and their smell. You CAN save your expensive soiled memory foam bed or pad. Here's quick & easy step by step instructions to eliminate stinky stains and restore your sanity.If you're reading this you are probably facing a pee or puke panic or a spill situation. If it's an old stain and you're looking for one last thing to try before you throw out a stinky, soiled memory foam bed or topper link over to "How to Clean a Mattress - Part 2". Don't go through this again! Buy two of these waterproof mattress protectors now. Click on image below, get it tomorrow.One to go on the bed after you finish cleaning up. And one for the closet in case your child or cat is sick several times in a night!
This is the best selling one on Amazon. Your child just peed on your memory foam mattress...and the cat. Your feline was so scared that it projectile vomited before running off to hide under the bed. What do you do first?If you've got a good mattress cover, you've got nothing to worry about. But you're in a panic so... Do not scream or yell. The most important thing you need to know about how to clean a mattress is to work quickly. So save your breath and run to the kitchen and grab: Step 1) Fill half the bowl with vinegar and fill the other half with water. Get back to the mattress without spilling the vinegar/water mix or dropping the other items.Step 2) Gently dab up the liquid mess with the paper towel. Carefully remove any sheets and mattress covers for later laundering. Press firmly with fresh towels to absorb more liquid. Do not squeeze or twist the foam.Step 3) Wet a paper towel with the vinegar/water solution and dab it where the urine and vomit were. Press in gently, then immediately use a fresh towel to dry it up.
Keep this up until you've covered the entire stained area.Step 4) Then open the box of baking soda and pour it on top of the stain. Yes, the whole box. Spread it out so that you get a generous layer that extends a couple of inches beyond the stain(s).Step 5) Let the baking soda sit there for a couple of hours. Then vacuum it up. Warning: This will cause the cat to fly out from under the bed like a miniature clawed tornado, which might scare the pee out of you. With any luck you'll have caught the spill in time and you won't have to do anything else. And your bed will smell clean and fresh.If this didn't work, go to "How to Clean a Mattress - Part 2" for the last thing you should try before throwing your memory foam mattress or topper away and buying a new one. How Did You Clean Your Memory Foam Mattress or Topper? Please tell us how you cleaned your memory foam. and will help others with emergency mattress messes for many years to come.How do you clean a urine-soaked mattress?
In order to clean a urine-soaked mattress, first soak up the urine, then use cleaners and dry the mattress. These steps for cleaning a urine-soaked mattress are outlined on the Fisher-Price company website. How do you get pee out of a mattress? How do you remove urine from a mattress? How do you get urine out of a mattress? If the stain is new and wet, use a dry towel with pressure to soak up the excess urine. The pressure can be applied by having a heavy person stand on the towel that is placed on the mattress. Blot with new dry towels until the liquid is absorbed; this can take about an hour. If one is available, a wet-dry vacuum may be used, instead. If the urine-stain is dry, apply 3 percent hydrogen peroxide on the mattress, and leave it there for 5 minutes. Be aware, however, that peroxide may bleach the mattress. Dish detergent, vinegar or borax can also be used to clean urine stains. Blot with dry towels once again to soak up the moisture. Next, apply baking soda to the stain, rubbing gently with a soft brush or firm sponge.
Leave the baking soda on overnight then vacuum off the dry powder the following day. If possible, put the mattress out in the sun during the day, or use a fan or hair dryer to expedite drying. When the mattress is completely dry, flip the mattress over and use the clean side to sleep on. Learn more about Stain Removal How do you remove urine stains from a mattress? It is possible to remove urine stains from a mattress using a special store bought product such as Urine-Erase or by creating a solution made from everyday... How do you get blood out of a mattress? Remove bloodstains from a mattress by sponging with a cool solution of water and liquid dishwashing detergent, blotting with a clean towel to absorb the st... How do you clean a mattress after bedwetting? To clean a urine-stained mattress, soak up any moisture and apply hydrogen peroxide and baking soda to the stain. The stain can also be removed with an enz... How do I remove blood stains from a mattress?
Rinsing or dousing the area immediately in cool or cold water is the best method for removing blood stains from a mattress or other fabric item. What laundry aid do you use to get makeup stains out of clothing? How can you remove bathtub spray paint? What is a theraputic mattress? How do you remove pine sap from clothing? What is a gel mattress? How do you remove gum from a carpet?Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Check the Squalor Archive for assistance. Are you still dirty? Okay, well, this is crazy, and I'm still a little shocked right now. I just woke up in the act of wetting the bed for the first (second? time in my adult life. I'm not afraid of cleaning up urine, and I think I even know some things to do: The sheets are already off so it wouldn't soak into the foam mattress, I found some odor spray, and I'm soaking up the liquid as fast/best I can. Here's the twist, though: It's not my bed.
I'm at my girlfriend's mother's house ... and said mother is SITTING IN THE DINING ROOM AT 5 A.M.!!!!! Currently, I'm hoping she's awake because she's going out early, in which case I can spring into action (?). But meanwhile, you popped into my head, and I thought I'd ask for advice on the best way to ninja-clean my way out of this while everyone's asleep. Damage so far: two sheets, some underpants I can throw in the trash, and a little urine on my (fast-drying) shirt. It says a tremendous amount about me that it wasn't until my third reading of this question that I thought to myself, "You know? It's a little weird that a stranger thinks of me first in the face of wetting the bed." I mean, I get it. obviously get it—and I entirely love it—but every once in a while, I catch myself taking a step back and looking at this life I've created for myself and am just like, "Hm. Existential ramblings aside, this is a not-uncommon thing to have happen. Wicked embarrassing, to be sure, but not uncommon.
Please take solace in that if it happens to you! In an ideal world, this kind of thing happens when it's just you in the bed. In an ideal world, this doesn't happen at all, but you know what I mean.) If it happens when there's someone else in the bed, though, you gotta 'fess up. Mostly because you have to get the sheets off the bed in order to clean them and prevent the pee from seeping into the mattress, and stripping the sheets is a thing that the other person in the bed will notice is happening. In this particular case, I would suggest enlisting your girlfriend to help with the awkward mother issue—have her throw the sheets in the wash and tell her mom she got her period unexpectedly. You may owe her one, but for whatever this is worth: If it were me, I would absolutely no doubt rather lie to my mother about a period accident than tell her that my boyfriend wet the bed. If you really, absolutely cannot get to the washing machine, head into the bathroom to do a little hand-washing triage.
If there's a tub, that's probably going to be your best bet, since hand-washing a section of bed linens is a bit of an awkward affair. So: Run the pee-pee part of the sheet under cold-to-lukewarm running water to flush out as much as you can. Use a small amount of whatever soap you can access most easily (hand soap, bar soap, liquid laundry detergent if it's around, whatevs) and rub the material against itself to create suds and coax out the piddle. Then rinse thoroughly under running water and wring out as much water as you can. Next, grab a towel and roll the wet part of the sheet up in it, which will extrude more water. The final step in this stealthy, MacGyver-esque sheet-washing process is to turn a hair dryer on the remaining wet spot until it's dry enough to go back on the bed. But really, don't do that. Just stick with the period lie and launder the sheets in the machine.In this case, the mattress was spared, because our bed-wetter woke up as the wetting was happening. But more often than not, that isn't the case, so I'm including general mattress-cleaning instructions here, because I'm a giver.
The biggest thing to remember when treating stains on a mattress is to use as little liquid as possible—if you saturate it, it will take forever to dry. Of course, in the case of wetting the bed, the mattress will already be fairly wet, so the first step should be to soak up as much of the urine as you can using either a towel (that you will later launder, natch) or paper towels. Since urine is a protein stain, you'll want to use something enzymatic on it. If you have pets in the house, go ahead and use whatever product you've got for cleaning the messes they make off your floors, carpets, furniture, whatever. Something like Nature's Miracle would be just grand. If you don't have that, a laundry pre-treatment spray like Shout or Zout will also work. Give the soiled part of the mattress a light misting, then give it a li'l scrubbing with a towel or sponge, then bear down on the area with a dry towel to absorb as much moisture as you can. You may want to perform a few light applications for maximum effect.
Once you feel confident that the mattress is clean, allow it to air-dry before putting the sheets back on. (Turning a standing fan toward the mattress will speed that process up.) If, for whatever reason, there's still a lingering odor once the mattress has dried, sprinkle a liberal amount of baking soda on the affected area and allow it to sit for 30 or so minutes before sweeping or vacuuming it up.There are your "Oh no no no no no, I wet the bed!" instructions. A word of warning: Don't read this and think to yourself, "I will never need this; I am a grown-up who does not wet the bed!" Because if you do that, you know what's gonna happen? Jolie Kerr is the author of the book My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag … And Other Things You Can't Ask Martha (Plume); more of her cleaning-obsessed natterings can be found on Twitter, Kinja, and Tumblr. Adequate Man is Deadspin's new self-improvement blog, dedicated to making you just good enough at everything. Suggestions for future topics are welcome below.