laundry and COVID

[tcufrog]

I've looked online for guidance regarding doing laundry of someone who has Covid if you don't but I haven't found advice for if everyone has Covid. What precautions should I take since I have Covid and everyone else except DS14 (as far as I know) has it. DS14 does his own laundry and I have the stuff he needs to quickly disinfect the room before he does it. I was planning to have him do his before I do the rest of the laundry. He has enough clothes once he does his current laundry to last him a while.

 

[kymom99]

Just have him wear a mask and wash his hands well after. My husband wore gloves when handling my stuff when I had it

 

[DLgal]

Ditto the above advice. When my DH had Covid, I wore gloves and a mask when handling his dirty laundry. I also made sure the laundry room exhaust fan was on at all times.

No one else in the house got it.

There is also a product by Lysol called Laundry Santitizer. It is an additive that will sanitize clothing and kill germs without having to use excessively hot water. I used that for DHs clothes as well. It's easy to find in the laundry aisle of any big box or supermarket.

 

[DisneyHardin]

There is also a product by Lysol called Laundry Santitizer. It is an additive that will sanitize clothing and kill germs without having to use excessively hot water. I used that for DHs clothes as well. It's easy to find in the laundry aisle of any big box or supermarket.

This was what I was going to recommend too. My DH has a job in which he is around some pretty gross germs and things (even prior to Covid), and so he uses Lysol Laundry Sanitizer anytime he washes his work clothes.

 

[mamamary]

When my dd had covid I didn’t do anything different with the laundry. None of us caught anything. I don’t think I even thought about her laundry.

 

[evilmommie]

My husband did our laundry when I had C-19 and didn’t do anything different other than put my sheets and clothing on the sanitary cycle. We use this cycle quite often, as I’m a retired health care provider that was called back into duty in 2020. Hopefully, you have that option on your washing machine. He was sequestered downstairs from me while I was upstairs. Didn’t catch it from me.

 

[bcla]

Silver might do something, as there are some washing machines that release silver into the wash/rinse water as well as some silver-based antimicrobial treatments. This isn't the same as silver-based treatments for human ingestion, which are all quack cures.

But for the most part it doesn't sound like there really needs to be anything other than normal laundering.

https://blogs.webmd.com/public-health/20200828/does-cleaning-in-a-washing-machine-kill-covid

 

[Skippy918]

When my dd had covid I didn’t do anything different with the laundry. None of us caught anything. I don’t think I even thought about her laundry.

Same. My dd had Covid a few months back and I did my regular cleaning and laundry. Her symptoms were mild though. We never caught it.

 

[neverlandsky]

Nothing too different. Towels and sheets will be washed in hot like always. I'm not striping the beds until coughs are gone. Once beds are stripped, I will lysol the mattress & pillows like normal when we change bedding. I already pulled all hand towels and replaced with paper towels. Hand towels won't come back until coughs are gone. I told Oldest, I'll take over their laundry until they are symptom free. Figured the less Oldest and everyone else touches the better right now. DH and Youngest have been lysoling the sofa multiple times a day. So far me & Youngest are asymptomatic and knock on wood it stays that way.