Okay, I have done this with wine staines and works beautifully. Keep in mind wine is harder to get out than blood. One part dawn dish soap To two parts hydrogen peroxide. Soak then wash in cold water. I was amazed at how well this works. The mixture is also color fast and doesn't fade colors. Add baking soda and it takes care of pet stains/orders. I found this on pinterest.

thank you all so much. I'll pass on all these tips to him. He's a dear brother, and I'm glad he didn't break anything major. He's thinking that age has caught up and maybe no more cross-country back-packing trips are in order, medium difficulty only.

I, however, have learned that I'm not too old to get up in the middle of the night for a trip to the airport :shock:

Ya'll are the best.

I'll have to try the milk sometime, Lotti...But..I think it will leave it's own stain behind.
In the end...better he is saved rather than the pants !!

Full fat milk was always used by my aunt, place on stain, let soak, soak up with paper towel... Don't rub in, then wash as normal with detergent. (also supposed to work on old dried in blood stains).

Another one that seems to make sense is either baking soda or. Peroxide (H2O2 3%), seems to have something to do with the extra oxygen...

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Susan, glad your brother made it out of the canyon with minor injuries--tackling the bloody pants is the easy part. I, too, like Marilyn, would soak the pants in cold water changes until you get a lot of it out. I would then put the pants in the washer on a cold water cycle, rub in a stain remover, put Oxyclean in the washer along with your detergent and if you have both a stain and soak cycle, do both. Do not put the pants in the dryer until you are satisfied that you've gotten the stain out on a cold water cycle. Hot water and the dryer will both set what is left of the blood stain into the pants. If need be, wash them again before putting them into the dryer. No guarantee the stain will come out completely and if he is not completely satisfied, if he air-dries the pants after washing and takes them to a professional cleaner, they may have other products to get the residual stain out.

Again, glad your brother is okay!

I absolutely agree with Marilyn's technique, and like Rita, am glad it wasn't worse! :shock:

Any nurses here have more suggestions for dealing with blood stains??

Glad your brother was rescued and is fine Susan. I don't have any 'solution' to this bloody problem but I am glad his pants held up well - it would have been potentially very embarrassing otherwise.

Cold water soak first..changing water often..a day or over nite.Wring out well. Peroxide to follow..use lots,
let stand a good while rinse well in cold....then wash with an oxi-clean laundry soap in cold.
Don't use hot or warm water or allow to dry until you've done all the cold soaking you can put up with....
At that point..what you've got is prob' ly it. Once dried it will stay ... Then it's to the dye pot !

I found this link. Perhaps it will help.

http://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-remove-blood-stains2.htm

BB was hiking in the Grand Canyon, pulled a boulder onto his leg, had to be medi-vac-ed out in a helicopter, and bloodied up his hiking pants really good. His question is, what will get a massive amount of dried blood out of fabric, probably a synthetic. I've seen the hydrogen peroxide suggestion.

Does anyone else have a great solution? It's a bit much for saliva.

It was a "movie-style" rescue...he said the view was great. Fortunately, just a few stitches & he's fine, but the trip was cut short because of a short cut.

The pants held up fine, except for the blood.