Help with ammonia stink! HELP HELP HELP..
OK ladies..I havent been in for a while as Ive been feeling fairly icky with my new pregnancy..but I need your advice..Im using cloth on my now 6 month old(and have since she fit into her newborn prefolds) but I am having a continuing issue with smell..When my daughter wets..her diapers smell so bad I cringe..its only when she's wet..I have read it could be detergent build up or that it could be that they are not getting clean.Ive tried numerous things to remedy either of those possibilities and yet the smell persists..not only is it affecting my prefolds..its clinging to her covers and can't be wiped off..What could possible be causing this? I don't have and HE machine at home but I do at my sisters house and I follow the washing directions for each machine respectively..Honestly...her diapers literally smell like a horsebarn..not even kidding..They smell find out of the dryer but the min she pees you can smell her across the room...HELP HELP HELP..
Horsebarn stink doesn't sound like ammonia to me.
Thanks bunches..I was a bit flustered because as i said i was getting a barnyard smell and sometimes I was getting this really strong ammonia smell and right now its kind of a combo of both..it is strong enough that it burns my nose..Im going to do a dishsoap run when we get home but I'll have to boil them as my hot water heater isnt working properly all the sudden and we get about 2 mins of HOT water then it just gets warm..blah..I love my cloth but it sure is a pain..LOL
Did you get it fixed yet?
Good day,I know this is more difficult during the winter,but I have found,that if you are able to hang the washing on a line outside,the sun will help with colour and smell in diapers very well.
The way I have always handled dirty diapers is to have a pail with 1/2 and 1/2 water and bleach,once you stip
I know a lot of folks use bleach on their cloth diaps without problems.
One time,we spent a week at my MIL's house and I had to wash my son's diapers they way my SIL did, because she thought I would use up too much electricity. To top it off, they had very hard water and their dryer was broken. You could literally fold the diapers like a card and stand them up. When we got home, I took all of his diapers and washed them my way. He was about 2 and, while I was folding them, he picked one up and smelled it said, "Mmmm, clean", then rubbed it on his cheek and said "sof". That proved that he appreciated the way I washed his diapers!
Good luck!
I just wanted to give my vote also to the Rockin Green Funk Rock Ammonia Bouncer.
Our overnight bamboo fitteds (MEOS and Bamboozles) have been a horror. I have tried everything under the sun and nothing had helped. Here is the list of what I tried before the Funk Rock:
1. Stripping with blue Dawn dish detergent
2. Fish tank ammonia remover
3. boiling diaps
4. Vinegar soak and vinegar rinse
5. Rinsing all the bamboo diaps with a diaper sprayer before they went into the pail and treating them with bio-kleen, lemon juice when in the pail.
6. Sunning
7. Boiling with baking soda
8. Boiling with vinegar, for an hour
9. Changing detergents to something harsher (not one of the general cloth safe detergents--Tide Free)
I was about to try bleach, but I generally strive to avoid this because it does void the diaper warranty in pretty much every case. I had stopped using all my bamboo diaps because there was no way to get them really clean. They sat in a drawer unused for months.
I decided to pay the $$$ for the Funk Rock and give it a try since I was pretty much out of other options. We did the 4 Tbsp hot soak, as the package suggests, and let it sit overnight. Then we ran the regular wash like we always do in the morning: hot wash with Vaska unscented detergent and then 2 rinse cycles. The bamboo diaps are clean and no longer causing red blisters on DS's bottom. I am beyond thrilled and will continue to use 1 Tbsp in my prewash per the package instructions on-going if it saves my expensive bamboo diaps!!! Also, FWIW, everything that was treated in the Funk Rock load feels much softer and the fabric is more flexible. It's just nicer to touch--cloth wipes, inserts, everything came out really well.
I have no idea what is in the stuff, but I am a big fan after this weekend's laundry experiment!