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How Should Medical Uniforms Be Cleaned? Don't Skip These Steps

Dec 28, 2022

Medical staff need to be in contact with patients every day, and need to carry more medicines every day. Therefore, these medicines are likely to cause contamination of clothing or clothing with liquid medicine. How to clean the clothing of medical staff is a very important content.

 

1. Pick out pockets for sorting. Medical staff generally put ballpoint pens, signature pens, lipsticks, toilet paper and other items into their clothes. If they do not take out their pockets and sort them, other clothes may be contaminated;

 

2. Neckline and cuffs are pre-washed. The dirtiest clothes are the neckline and cuffs. Pre-treatment in advance will save time for the main wash;

 

3. Before washing, firstly, soak the clothes of the medical staff in the August 4th disinfectant or some strong alkaline laundry detergent for 5 minutes to disinfect, which can facilitate the later cleaning, because the clothes of the medical staff are shallow Color system, so these alkaline laundry ingredients can effectively bleach, and also have a good effect of sterilization.

 

4. When cleaning, do not overfill the laundry in the washing machine, 2/3 of the load is more appropriate; add a little strong medical washing powder to help the separation of solid dirt;

 

5. Use low water level in the main wash, wash at 40°C-60°C for 20 minutes, then wash at high temperature, and then gradually lower the temperature;

 

When washing surgical gowns, pay attention to:

 

1. Put the surgical gown into the container, soak it with the blood-stained washing powder aqueous solution, and start normal washing after a certain period of time;

 

2. Pre-wash at low temperature for several times until no blood appears;

 

3. After washing, check the surgical gown. If blood stains on the surgical gown are found to solidify, use chlorine bleaching and oxygen bleaching for oxidative decolorization, neutralization and iron removal.

 

4. Repeat operation 3 for the blood-stained surgical gown.

 

5. Then add disinfectant to high temperature washing (main washing);

 

6. After the main wash, dry them separately.

 

Precautions:

 

1) White coats and surgical gowns will have some unwashed yellow stains, drug stains, old blood stains, rust, etc. Once found, local backwashing is required; when partial backwashing, chemical methods, oxidation methods, and reduction methods can be used Law.

 

2) After cleaning, it needs to be placed in the sun, or placed in a disinfection cabinet for sterilization and disinfection, because medical staff have contact with many patients, in order to prevent them from being infected by bacteria, their clothes must be clean and tidy. sterile.

 

Cleaning medical uniforms requires post-disinfection and sterilization, and the two processes are indispensable.

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