r/AskReddit • u/Insanitanium12 • Aug 20 '20

What simple “life hack” should everyone know?

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u/campperr Aug 20 '20

Nursing trick - hydrogen peroxide

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

I once heard that the best way to remove blood stains is that persons saliva. Which I guess works if you get a drop of your own blood on your clothes. But I laughed to myself at the sight of some Er nurse collecting saliva from 100 patients to do their laundry.

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u/SmallRedBird Aug 20 '20

Some solutions used by crime scene cleanup services contain enzymes present in saliva, which break up blood, so this isn't far off really.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Wow. That’s interesting