How to Remove Pee Stains (and Smell!) From a Mattress

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Gabrielle Falk on Jan 09, 2023
Hydrogen peroxide and baking soda, generally do not mix well - ie 'erupts' everywhere. Just like a volcano.....WHY not put under the mattress protector, if there is a member of the family who experiences incontinence (of both sorts) a rubber sheet?? (or something similar) - which would save a lot of un-necessary cleaning and sanitising. Which rubber sheets are used in hospitals, world-wide. For those souls who are incontinent-ie elderly folk, or those who have a physical problem. And for private households, surely a good scrub, with a bar of soap, and rinse under cold (ABSOLUTELY NOT HOT) running water - like you would do for an old dried, blood stain. Nothing fancy needed-no perfume-no enzymes!! (just think of those parents, say back in the 1800's, ergo, and earlier, and also beyond, even into the 1920's??, how they handled the same problem of children wetting their beds. HANG the offending garment ON THE CLOTHES LINE-DO NOT PUT IN THE DRYER, BECAUSE YOU WILL BE BAKING THE STAIN/SMELL IN. TO MY MIND, IT IS FAR BETTER TO PREVENT, THAN TRY AND REMEDY. Been on this earth a long time-just try something that is, to my mind, 'natural'. How do you think our great grand parents dealt with this same problem. Washing, scrubbing, and drying on a clothes line - in the fesh air!!!!!I Just stop and have a think.
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Why not purchase a 6 pack of washable mattress protectors that pop in the wash. Nursing homes use them, can buy online, not expensive and last forever. They are 3' square soft pads. Used for a relative for years.
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Would this method work on carpet from a cat?