Keeping your mattress bed clean is not always the easiest task, especially if you have young children and pets living in your home. The easiest way to answer the question about how to clean a mattress would be to try and keep it clean from the beginning. Unfortunately, accidents do and more often than not, will happen. First, let us advise those of you who have just purchased a new mattress and would like to know how to keep your bed clean. For this, you can use one of many mattress protectors sold in most stores that carry household items and cleaners, as well as mattress dealers and furniture stores. You can also cover your mattress with a mattress bag which basically wraps your mattress in a protective envelope. These are also good for keeping your mattress from giving you dust mites bites and allergies.
A good mattress cleaner should definitely be used for accidents such as drink spills, urine and dust mites.
Of course I wouldn’t recommend simply letting the mattress dry and forget it ever happened.
Your mattress may be dry, but the odor will still linger, and the stains will surely set. Young children, pets and even adults have been having accidents in bed, and that’s not about to stop any time soon. Whether it’s urine, vomit or you just happen to spill something while having breakfast in bed, you should have a good quality mattress cleaner at hand. The question is what to use, and what actually works to remove those awful stains and odors.
So we’ll teach you How To Clean A Mattress.
There are a few solutions out there that can be of assistance, and a variety of products that can be used as mattress cleaner that will do the trick.
A few mattress cleaning products include What Odor? which is great for allergies, and a well recommended mattress cleaner used by the hotel industry called ProKlean seems to work very well.
If you do not have any of these, there is still hope as there are a few other products that are very effective and can play the part of a mattress cleaner. A good quality upholstery shampoo usually does the job, and you can get them just about anywhere. The sooner you treat the affected surface, the easier it will be to remove the odor and stain, so if you happen to have upholstery shampoo in your home, try that.
Vacuum That Mattress Monthly
Also have you tried to just vacuum the mattress occasionally? There’s lots of dead mites and bed bugs in there that can weigh things down and shorten the life of your mattress.
Nothing is worse than having recently spent a large sum of money on a good quality pillow top mattress, and then finding out that your dog has just urinated on it. You always have the option to call a professional mattress cleaner, but sometimes the situation can be a little embarrassing, not to mention fairly costly. Healiohealth’s black light kit makes a nice product that includes a black light to find the secretive urine stain and then a chemical to get rid of it. It’s always better just to do our own dirty work when we can.
A good mattress cleaner is not only useful for accidents, we also sweat a lot when we sleep, and over time, your mattress just doesn’t smell as fresh as you would like. To regain that smell, there is also a practical solution. It’s a good idea to first vacuum the mattress surface on both sides before you go ahead and use your preferred mattress cleaner product. This will rid your mattress of dust and mites. Furthermore, changing the sheets as often as possible will usually help keep that fresh scent and feel, longer before you feel the need to pull out the mattress cleaner once again.
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Anyone know of a way to get rid of pet stains in a new mattress. DAMN YOU DOGS!!!
We had a matress in storrage without ac, now it’s smells. I tryed sprinkle baby poweder & baking soda, better but still there. Does anyone know what can be done?
Call a professional that uses hot dry vapor steam.
SCOE10X is a great product for cleaning up urine and a lot of other stinky issues.
Jenna
Hi Does this product SCOE 10X work on mice urine.Had a Craftmatic Adjustable Bed in storage with a Mattress cover on it and the mice urinated all over the cover and an area about the size of of 4 inches is at one end and Id like to get it clean its been used very little.Thanks Jim
I second that emotion Ken! WHY the bed of all places??? They know how to get us where it hurts!
SO glad I’m not the only one who just bought a new mattress only to find out my dog peed on it!! I was mortified and had to figure out if there was a way to clean it, besides to change the bedding and put bounce dryer sheets over the urine spots in between the sheet and mattress to at least mask the yucky smell (I was desperate). Dang dogs, cannot believe this is where he decides to pee!! He even sleeps here! What the heck!?! Thank goodness for google and discussions.
thanks for the advice, you have just save me a ton of money….lol
the advice and product worked.
best regards
ace
purchase a product called proklean or ask your local stores for upholstery shampoo
carpet cleaner and a wet sponge.
then blow dry it so you don’t get mildew or a bad smell, or leave the mattress outside to dry in the sun.
Emma Jo, does this actually work? as my daughter is a pain for weein the bed, but obviously wud need the mattress for that nite
Interesting. I’ve had a problem with my husband drinking and coming home and peeing in the bed at night. We’ve already bought 2 mattresses because he pees in bed.
How do you clean out human urine from a mattress?
I had the same problem with the husband. what I did worked wonders, I got rid of the husband!!! Now he is peeing in someone elses bed.
ha ha ha that is the best think I heard
very good
To funny!
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That’s what I plan to do as well!!! Enough is enough!!
Anna Marie thats funny but didnt u love him?
With a name like yours, you will score another husband in a jiffy. Just put a plastic cover on the mattress. It worked when I was a little kid.
Hi Anna, I am still laughing, your answer was so spontaneous and totally unexpected relieving me of my utter frustration going from site 2 site needing what I thought would be a quick fix NOW!! with what I have on hand,not 4,000 ads on products requiring getting dressed, into the car, driving to the store to purchase said item, reversing the above. I just know you get what I mean, anway THANK YOU so much for the great laugh break which has ended my internet search. I used baking soda w/pet urine spray & oxgen powder cleaner w/some smell spray,sort of in layers on mattress. It is all making a connection to each other as I sit here connecting to you. Yikes! EVERYTHING is so damn complicated. Digital voices, spitting ATM machines,Car Wash drive in’s leaving soap all over my car, water spray not work, coin machine empty, drive to bank w/ winshield wiperss sqeaking to keep soap off window, get change from first human teller (left her laughing) back to wash off soap, dark by now. Mission accocomplished but NOW I needed to pee. You guessed it, have to spend a fourtune to purchase something to use rest room. Close call or next question would have been, removing pee from car seat. Nice chat Anna and great choice. Did you get next model in spouse dept? NOT spouse of souse I hope. Keep laughing, Joanne human female thinktank on Yahoo Blog. (another crazy story)
LOL! I laughed so hard at this I almost peed the bed myself!
So I have the same problem! But it’s not my husband, just a guy I was seeing. Why did I continue to see him after he peed the first time?! I have no idea. but now I have this huge urine stain on my bed and I just want to strangle him. I’ve tried peroxide and SCOE10X. It seemed to get better but for some reason today it’s rainy and humid and the smell is overwhelming me. I think i’m going to get a Suction vac…cheaper than buying a new mattress. I was even thinking about buying a new mattress but then thinking about what the guys delivering the new mattress will be thinking as they haul away the dirty mattress! *sigh*
No more alcoholics.
BAHAHA that’s the funniest thing I’ve heard all day!!
well my 11 year old daughter pees in the bed and she has peed in the bed everynight 4 the last year and i have done nothing and i dont know how to make her stop and i dont have the money to buy another bed so i dont know how to get the pee and the smell out
Susan, don’t punish your daughter for her actions. She may be a heavy sleeper like my son. Limit her intake of liquids in the evening. Nothing past 7:00 and go to the bathroom before bed. It helps my son. My brother was a bed wetter too when he was younger and it’s very embarrassing to the child. I hope the suggestion works.
I am hoping that by now your daughter has gotten over her bed wetting issue. However, I wanted let people know what worked for my son. When he was in the first grade, after all tests showed there was nothing physically wrong, the doctor prescribed an enuresis alarm. It is a small device that woke him up as he was about to pee. The unit has two ends, and a cord that connects them. One end clips onto the underwear that when that first drop of urine touches it, sends a signal to a small alarm device clipped on the collar of their shirt. Within two weeks, my son was staying dry consistently, and has been accident free since then. He used the device only for as long as he needed it. I did notice that if he was overly tired, he had more accidents, and so we worked on his schedule as well. We also gave him a watch with a timer on it to remind him to go to the bathroom regularly during the day.
I wish that would work for my son but since he puts his Alarm clock (its battery operated) IN his bed with him to wake him up in the morning for school and he never hears it I doubt that would work. My son is 11 he was fully Potty trained and never wet the bed for 5 years! then we Moved away from my parents when he was 6 and it’s been down hill ever since (we lived with my parents all his life before moving to another state) he did okay at first only wetting the bed once in a while, maybe every day for a week then would stop for months. but now at 11 yrs old its pretty much back to Every night I’m so sick of buying OverNight Sleep pants! specially since 90% of the time they don’t work, I’ve bought 2 brand new mattresses already and USE mattress covers with them his room STINKS so bad! you don’t even have to walk in his room just get close to it!.. I’m tired of washing his bed clothes daily, I put a good HEPA Air Purifier in his room it didn’t help I’ve tried the baking soda, the vinegar, the frebreeze (that just masks the odors by the way) I am limited on what “Air freshener” type sprays i can use because I own Parrots and the frebreeze, lysol sprays etc can Kill my birds! He’s not allowed anything to drink after dinner(Dinner is 5:30 pm) his bed time is 9 pm – he has to go pee before getting in bed, I wake him up around 11 pm to go pee, then my b/f will wake him up again in the middle of the night usually around 2-3 am then he’s up at 6:30 am for school .. He doesn’t drink pop but maybe 2 times a year (on Christmas and Thanksgiving) and then its 2 cans all day and nothing else, he drinks mainly water. The doctors just keep telling me he’ll Grow out of it.. well his DAD was a bed wetter until 13 I really can’t handle this for another 2-3 years! I found this site by searching ways to get the stench out of his room and his mattress and all I am finding is things I’ve already tried that never worked! it’s winter here now so I can’t sit the mattress out in the sun but his 1st mattress sat out in the sun for 3 months and it still STUNK like pee! so i am searching for something that is safe to use around my birds(just because it says “Safe to use around pets” doesn’t make it safe for using around my birds
I have to do extensive research on every product and I’m just wanting to sit here and pull my hair out, the smell in his room is starting to linger out of his room and in the rest of my house 
He is a very heavy sleeper and he has no idea he has to pee when he’s asleep and has no idea he’s peed after he’s done it.. but we’ve kind of narrowed it down. if we hear him start talking in his sleep and just brush it off He will pee the bed, IF we hear him talking in his sleep wake him up to go pee (which by the way ends up in a huge fight while he’s asleep the entire time and it doesn’t help much he has a slight anger problem) Then he doesn’t pee the bed also he says It seems every night that he pees the bed he is dreaming of water (ocean, pools etc) I keep telling him WHEN you start dreaming like that Make your self get up and go to the bathroom in the bathroom BUT he’s such a hard sleeper he can’t even get himself to wake up. I’ve banged pans Beside his head while he was sound asleep HE didn’t even flinch but his sister came bolting out of her room at the other end of the house and she was dead asleep with her door closed and she heard it and she’s a heavy sleeper too! I never had this problem with her she wet the bed 1 time when she was 5 – she was overly excited about a field trip the next day at school(it was her 1st real field trip) she has never done it again I just dont’ know what to do any more every doctor said “he’s fine , he’ll grow out of it” but it isn’t them who has to deal with the mess! Cutting liquids off Doesn’t work.. I’ve even went to the extreme and didnt’ allow him to have anything to drink for 7 hrs before bed! and he goes to the bathroom A LOT during the day and he still peed a small lake in his bed 
I’m half tempted to throw the bed out and Just make him a cot on the floor with blankets until he finally stops peeing the bed! blankets and carpets are 100% easier to clean than a bed mattress!!!
I don’t have any solutions for the odour, but as a doctor (and mother of 13yo and 10yo bedwetters) I would just like to say that ‘enuresis alarms’ are very effective for most children. My 10yo responded very well the first time, and the other child gets about a year out of it, before having to use it again. Just waiting for her to ‘grow out of it’. I hired them through a bedwetting clinic at the Childrens Hospital (Australia), because this meant that we got a thorough history, examination and urine test first. The paediatrician told me they had not had such success with the clip on pants alarm although these can be bought at pharmacy for $100-200. The pad and bell alarm that we used would cost $2000 to buy.
I have the same problem with my daughter who is nine. She just wet the be again last night. I figured it was fine since I had just put a brand new waterproof mattress pad on her bed. I moved her to the top bunk in her sibblings room and went back to bed. Got up this morning to discover it had soaked through the plastic liner too. AHHH! Not to mention she had gone to the bathroom again when I woke and moved her. Then woke up this morning wet again. Luckily it wasn’t as bad and didn’t get the bed wet. But still. She can not grow out of this too soon. Anyhow — I use the clorox bleach spray (actually I use the Target brand). Kills the smell and gets rid of the stain. Also kills all the bacteria. I spray a ton on the spot. Let it sit for a few minutes. Then get a damp rag and scrub it. Then I use a dry rag to absorb as much as I can. Last I turn the ceiling fan on and let it dry all day before remaking the bed. I have never noticed an odor and the stains are gone with this product. Good Luck — I know it is so frustrating!
If any kids are wetting the bed frequently you can buy something like a “Conni” (for bed wetting and general incontinence use) anyway, they can hold up to 5 litres of liquid and keep the bed dry and also draw it away from the child, so if they have light clothes on they may not even wake up. If they do wake up you only have to change the “Conni” and not the whole bed. It lays on top of bottom sheet.
Try putting a shower curtain (great deal at the Dollar Store) over his mattress and then a fitted sheet on top. Keep him on the night schedule….no drinks 2 hours prior, wake up 2 hours after bed and another early morning. keep extra sheets, blankets, and a change of clothes in his room for easy cleanup. When he wets the bed have him get up and clean himself. Teach him how to wash his stuff….he can atleast toss everything into the washer. Once you take the fitted sheet off have him wipe down the shower curtain with a clorox wipe and llet it dry for a minute and pop a new fitted sheet on. The shower curtain is a great barrier. Works like a charm.
Get with your kids pediatrician often times they can give you a referal for a bed wetting alarm so your insurance will cover the cost.
I just want to say quickly, that if he does pee a LOT all day you should check his blood sugar and rule out a diabetic tendency. I have hubby and daughter that sleep hard like that and are not themselves and very angry if you wake them – they don’t remember in the morning. My hubby drank and peed a lot (not alchohol and not in bed lol) and even though very healthy and young ended up being diabetic. That’s funny you know he’s gonna wet when he talks in his sleep, my daughter just did that last night. She hasn’t wet the bed in years and I happened to fall asleep putting her to bed and heard her talking – then woke up cause my feet felt something wet. Now I’m looking for tips on cleaning the mattress – sigh.
Hi Kelli. The same thing happend to my son. We lived with my mother till he was 5yrs old he is 8 now. He was potty trained at 15months. When we moved away from grandmas it went down hill. We tried this Pacific International company for bedwetting (very pricey) worked withn one month he stopped wetting the bed. I know the stress it can be on you and your child believe me i know. Went to the doctors and they said it was normal. Theguy that came to our home and explained why kids pee the bed made sense. Take a look at if ur son is still peeing his bed. To me worth every penny good luck
If I was you I would check your daughter out for a urine infection, they could be the main reason she’s having that difficulty.
also i have many stains in my bed to
Yep i tried that, no drinks after 5pm! my daughter still pees the bed
trying an alarm in the middle of the night and going before bed that works pretty well
ewwww! get a divorce!
Well you could of also used laundry detergent and bleach on the stain and adult diapers on the husband…lol
Yes, you can get human urine out. First, you get paper towels and you try your best to get all of the urine dried plus add pressure by standing on it, then add baking soda to do the rest of the job. Let it dry & vacuum it up.
My husband has been doing the same thing for years now, and although it’s annoying, I’ve pretty much got used to it. But last night, he pulled a new one on me. He literally walked down a few stairs, pisses all over the rest of them, then came back to bed. I had to be up in two hours, and could not for the life of me decide what someone in that position is supposed to do.. Do I clean it up and not get any sleep? Or go back to sleep and worry about the stain setting? Ugh!! I love my husband and would never divorce him over something he can’t control, but I just might strangle him in the heat of the moment. Especially if he pisses on my staircase again. Hahahaha!
lol wow. comments like these make me happy I don’t drink.
Do you make him clean it up? If not, you should. I did this when my husband used to drink and would vomit. Lol, I even provided a laundry basket with what I thought was his dirty work clothes to use as a bucket. (I figured that would make the clean up easier.)The next morning he realized that it was his clean clothes, oops. I told him that happens when a person drinks too much. Fortunately, he only had dry heaves that time around, but after that he sobered up. His obsession now is exercise. If he ever takes up drinking again, I am out.
Melysa if you could email me back and let me know how you seem to get the smell out. I would appreicaite it. I have the same problem. I feel like I can not seem to get it out.
You need to absorb the urine from the mattress as quick as possible without adding any more liquid to it.
So no spraying it with water and soap or sprays that will mask the pee smell. Dry paper towels and terry cloth strips work best until you’re removing no more fluid then you can begin the process of cleaning the urine out of the mattress.
Melysa,
sounds like your husband has a drinking problem. My ex boyfriend used to do that too. Or maybe limit liquid consumption 3 hours before bed and urinate right before bed.
Either that or just buy a new mattress every weekend if he’s peeing the bed that much.
just kidding
Or get a new husband! Yeesh.
The sun is a natural sanatiser and bleacher. White vinegar also a sanatiser, and acidic so it will neutralise the urine and smell. Simply apply to area and leave in the sun. If stain still remains lemon juice in the sun will reduce the stain.
Same name…weird…anyways, I think you have had the best idea I’ve read. It’s also a cheap fix, so thank you very much for your help.
Hello?!?! Make him sleep on the couch!! I am worried about a little boy – I would never worry about a full-grown man!
Good luck!
Kimberly
sleep on the couch? then he will pee on the couch and u have to sit on that
no thx lol
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Nice site Jeremy. If you’re interested in advertising on this page let me know. I can pass some nice page rank to your’s.
How do I get small pen mark out of mattress . They are about the size of a dime .
Hairspray will get ballpoint pen ink out of fabrics. have lots of paper towels ready to blot.
Use hairspray and a clean rag. Spray the ink stain area with hairspray and then rub clean with rag. Then wash the area with mild soap and water. Make sure to absorb all water with clean rags, since it is a mattress. I’ve never cleaned a mattress, but I’ve used this trick on shirts and clothing. Something in the hairspray breaks the ink down. Works every time for me.
Hello, I think its the alcohol in the hairspray, at my vet clinic we use alcohol to remove permanent marker of bottles. Try pure alcohol, thats what I use.
Does anyone know how to get vomit out of a new mattress??
Thanks.
I want to bang out my mattress with some flat type of tool that is made from wood or plastic. I had one that I bought in Israel that we used for banging out the dust from both mattresses or rugs, but it is breaking. I searched some of the stores in Brooklyn, NY but was not able to find them here. Does anyone know where I can find such a thing?
to get a stick for wacking your rugs and mattress go to your local hardware store and buy an ax handle. they work well.
Try to broom. We used to use them for rugs. (Hang the rug on a clothes lin). On a mattress I think you could just ‘whack’ It.
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Hi
be careful when cleaning your mattress. Some companies, such as Simmons state that using anything liquid will void the warranty.
http://www.simmons.com/customer-services.cfm
look under how to clean your mattress. I found this out the hard way. My pillowtop is lumpy and since I used liquid to clean it, I caused worse stains, voiding the warranty.
How do you remove mould from a matress?
My husband sweats and when i removed the mattress protecror there is some mould on the surface.
I have now put down a waterproof protector.
The comments about peeing in bed and the drinking problem were way too funny!!!!!
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for those of you who have people peeing in your beds.. If I were you I’d toss the mattress and then buy a new one.. Before you let anyone sleep on it, cover it with sheet plastic (or leave it in the original plastic it comes in), then buy a cheap pillowtop (so you don’t feel/hear the plastic), then buy a mattress cover, then sheets. If it gets peed on you can always wash the sheet, mattress cover and pillowtop and bleach or lysol the plastic.
Hello everyone,
renting a house from next week through an agency… was jst wondering if they are responsible of suppling a brand new mattress. Not to sure.
Thank anyone for their answers.
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ok Home Enviro Health Specialists. You’ve spammed us your sales pitch but didn’t give any of our worldwide visitors your contact info. Marketing 101?
What is your service area and how do people reach you?
Ken I merely offered the post as a solution. If you feel that I spammed you site I apologize. I do not see anything that you sell and it is to inform others about solutions, in which we provide one.
If you feel that I have disrespected you or your site, please delete the post.
Nooo that’s fine. I just get 100′s of comments a day and it’s usually people showing up, commenting and leaving. This page ranks very well and gets lots of traffic. If your in the NJ area only, you’re probably not going to get a lot of calls from here.
thx for your comment though.
Thank you and I am happy to hear that you are not offend with the post. We do only serve the NJ Metro area at the current time.
The site contains lots of useful information that would have one see just how “unhealthy” a mattress can actually be.
A comment that we will receive from most customers is: “If I can’t see it so who cares.” I would say in response: “I never heard of a diseases (as in a internal sickness) that you can see; would you want them?”
But then after they learn of what is actually multiplying (Viruses, Bacteria) and the dust mites feed on dead moldy human skin, then they leave their excrement along with their dead body parts all over their mattress; they then have a different opinion.
I have not tried the ProKlean product, but I do not recommend asking any questions of customer service. I e-mailed them for a recoomendation of products, and I was given a curt and rude response. Manners and good customer service are missing at ProKlean.
i have sweat stains on my mattress and it has structurally failed and they will not warranty it because of the stains, how can i remove them??
the mattress has a 9 year warranty and i have 2 years to clean it>>
the warranty state “sanitary condition” they also said a simple pen mark on it would also void warranty. has anyone ever been able to actually have a mattress replaced under warranty??
rob
Rob,
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Jim
HI,
We have a cal king pillow top mattreess that our 4 year old just vomitted (poor thing) all over. Egads Now, I have taken all of the pillows, sheets etc off the bed and have been using a bucket of water and a new sponge to soak up the ick. I also placed a splash of pine sol.
Is this wise? After reading all this info I am confused and concerened in California. What should I do. It totally stinks too. Thank goodnes she is feeling better and daddy is whith her in her room sleeping and also she threw up on his side not mine he he.
What is the best thing to do at this point????
Thank you
Roberts3,
Be careful on how much water you get on the mattress. If you get too much to penetrate mold may grow along with viruses from the vomit. If you have someone local that can perform mattress sanitation with a high powered UVC Lamps that would be a great thing to do!
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The product will also perform odor control.
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Thank you for all your help. My son wets his bed once in aawhile. We had the mattress covered with a plastic zip up cover. Unfortuately the cover got a very small hole in it and the urine leaked into the mattress and was then sealed in by the cover. I found the hole but the mattress stinks. I did vinegar, enzyme products, baking soda, and even a carpet heat cleaner. The stains are gone and the smell is more localized but it still stinks!! I am a stay at home mom of 2 boys with a little girl on the way and I don’t have the money to pay a big fancy company to clean my mattress. Any more suggestions??
Sincerely, Breen
My dog peed in our bed while we were on vacation and I discovered it when we got home- I think it’s been there for at least 5 days. Is there any hope of getting the smell out or do I need to buy a new mattress? The stain was bone dry by the time we found it. My boyfriend is pissed (no pun intended!) so I need to figure this out ASAP.
If there is hope, what it is it? Please email me back, liz@lizcockrum.com. THANKS!
just wanted to let everyone know we used a professional service to get the mattress cleaned ($120) and now, several months later, there is no smell or stain.
the stain came out immediately with the cleaning, and the smell was totally gone within 2 weeks.
Liz,
What type of professional cleaners did you use? In my area I have only been able to find carpet cleaners that say they can do the job but can’t guarantee stain removal. (2 year old daughters bed wetting) I do see a dust mite UV mattress cleaner, but it seems like it’s more about allergens and dust mites then stain removal. Glad to hear that your bed is looking and smelling clean. Hopefully my daughters will again soon too. Many thanks.
Thanks for all the useful info, I’m asking for your opinions.
My mom’s large dog peed bucket loads on our mattress. As per the advice listed here, I did not add any water or try washing it out yet, I sopped as much as I could with paper towels. Now I need to know what to do. It is a pillow-top on both sides. The side that was peed on was massively soaked, as I was pushing down with the towels to soak up pee, the mattress would darken in other areas where it was pooling. As far as I know, it had been on the mattress at least 5 or 10 minutes, no longer than an hour. I think he had just peed on the bed before we came home, it was very wet, but had had enough time to soak in. But I was so livid about it, I couldn’t think straight to clean it up for about 15 minutes after it happened.
I’m very concerned that there was enough pee to soak in to the middle of the mattress, I’m fairly certain it did. After sopping up as much as possible by hand, I then stood on top of paper towels to hopefully absorb more, and it was still very, very damp to the touch even after all that. Do you think our mattress is ruined?
I intend on spraying it down with vinegar, or bleach, or both alternatively and hauling outside to sit in the sunshine. However, I can’t haul it outside by myself and it will be a couple hours until my husband gets home. AND it’s not very sunny out today, with a forecast for rain… Is it even worth it, if it has soaked into the middle of the mattress?
I’m so angry!! >:(
I need help. My 22 year old son with his girlfriend spent the weekend in our guest room while we were away. Needless to say, I guess I never bothered to tell him with the facts of life about a towel so there is no wet spot ! The bed was remade and sat there for about 6 weeks until I was having company and decided to change the sheets. As soon as I removed the sheets I noticed a particular odor and knew what happened. Now I am in a quandry as to what to do with the mattress. It is fairly new and has had maybe 50 nights on it in its life. Is there a wqay to get rid of the odor? I have had it unmade so it is airing out but that is not getting me anywhere. All the other comments are about urine, blood,etc. and there seems to be different methods of cleaning for different types of stains…
Well my two cents for any stain on a matress…
Beyond trying to soak up an immediate mess, and NOT pouring water or soap onto the matress I would try one, or both if the first doesn’t work…
1) Dry Soap Bubbles
You whip up a tad of hot water with some powder laundry detergent in a large bowl or a bucket with a power mixer and get a ton of bubbles. You then get the dry soap bubbles that formed at the top with a good sponge and go to town on the stain. I would also still recommend placing outside in sunlight and use an odor remover in moderation.
2) Hydrogen Peroxide
This will remove and disinfect the stained area. Again, moderation is key because you do not want to get too much liquid into the matress. And once again I recommend placing outside in sunlight and use an odor remover.
my husband sweats during the night and our brand new mattress and sheets smell awful!! Any suggestions on how to get this smell out? thanks!
This is going to sound digustingly horrible but if anyonne cold help me out it would be great!!!! Im living with my husband and brother in law. My brother in law has just found out his girlfriend has clamidia and I think he might have it too. My parents are coming to visit and my brother in law has given permission to stay in his bedroom. Is there any way of cleaning his mattress and sheets or am i safer just to through out the mattress. I really need help they are coming two days!!!!!
Unfortunately I can’t help any of you with mattress cleaning, I need some help of my own.
I’m going away to college and am going to stay in a dorm. Naturally I’m a bit worried about how clean the bed is. I don’t think there will be a problem with stains, but I’m more worried about the sorts of things Jennifer posted – a disease in the mattress or bed bugs.
What could I do to clean the mattress that wouldn’t get the Residence Hall advisors angry and would give me some peace of mind? Or, what should I put on the mattress to seperate me from it? I have read about the plastic covers and the mattress bags – which do you recommend?
After reading all this about the critters in my mattress it makes me want to soak the whole thing in Raid or bleach!
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Step 2)
An ultra powerful, germicidal UV-C light is slowly passed over the surface of the mattress, or other objects you want sanitized. This is the same process as used in hospital rooms for sterilization and in crime scene labs and DNA labs to prevent cross-contamination. The purpose of this step is to effectively alter the DNA in the targeted house dust mite and other micro-organisms.
UV-C light causes damage to the nucleic acid of microorganisms by forming covalent bonds between certain adjacent bases in the DNA. The formation of such bonds prevent the DNA from being unzipped for replication, and the organism is unable to reproduce, and the population quickly dies out. This UV-C light kills 99.9% of all allergens it touches.
Step 3)
We then use a Dry Vapor Steam Vacuum w/A.T.I.S technology to vacuum up the remaining dust mites, viruses, bacteria, fungus, and more. Our goal is to remove all possible indoor allergens from your mattress. Most companies do not use a Dry Vapor Steam vacuum to clean your mattress!
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Lastly, we do a light misting of the sterilized surfaces with an odorless, all natural, chemical-free, and non-toxic super enzyme spray. This is not the stuff you may find in a store. It is the best of the best! The spray inhibits the growth of new dust mite colonies. After allowing 5 minutes for evaporation to take place, the mattress is ready for bed linens.
my baby sleeps with us and he sleeps with a bottle and the top of our mattress smells rotten from formula and juice is there any way i could clean it its not a traditional spring mattress its a pillow top…if snyone can help please let me know
Help! I don’t know what to do. My boyfriend came up to my school to visit me for a week and got very drunk one night and peed in the bed. By the time I found out, it was too late and the urine had dried into the mattress. Now there is an ever present odor. The problem is, I live in a dorm and can not get the mattress outside to try the vinegar solution. Any ideas???
That is soo rude! Bed wetting in adults is very rare and embarassing my friend dealt with it and its got nothing to do with drinking! Sara Silverman the actress also has it look it up at wikipedia. have some compasion assholes
I placed my brand new mattress on a floor that had just been varnished and now my mattress smells like that varnish. It was on the floor for about a month… I know, I should have realized… Anyway, I Febrezed the mattress twice and it still kind of smells. Now that I do have a bed frame, the mattress has also absorbed the smell of the slated bed-base, an old wood smell. Will carpet cleaner take the smell away? I’m not sure how to attack this because it’s not a conventional “stain”, it’s almost toxic? Many thanks for your suggestions