Pseudochromhidrosis. It's rare, but some people have a condition called chromhidrosis that causes their sweat to turn different colors, including blue. But if you have chromhidrosis, you're usually staining your clothes and your bedding too, not just your toilet seat. And you don't have to be pregnant.
If laundry is coming out with bluish colored stains, it suggests the detergent compartment or the fabric softener compartment is being overfilled. When these compartments are overfilled, the detergent or fabric softener will immediately dispense into the wash tub, resulting in stains on the fabric.
Sudocreme and other things containing lavender oil can leave blue stains.
Why sheets turn yellow. Yellowing sheets are primarily due to body sweat and oils, including lotions we put on to rejuvenate our skin overnight, according to textile engineer Vikki Martin, vice president of fiber competition for Cotton Incorporated.
Chromhidrosis is a rare chronic condition that causes sweat to turn black, blue, green, yellow, or brown. The coloration may be barely noticeable and restricted to a few locations or more widespread. Chromhidrosis is harmless, but it can cause embarrassment or distress that may lead to depression or anxiety.
Most white sheets naturally start turning yellow or dingy over time due to the sweat and body oils that are released while you sleep. While the brightness of white sheets can be prolonged with regular washing, you can also turn to these methods to help make your sheets white again.
Blue Stains
If caused by a detergent or powdered laundry aid, add 1 cup (240 ml) of white vinegar to 1 quart (. 95L) of water. Use a plastic container. Soak item for one hour; rinse.
Make a paste of baking soda and water and apply it onto the stain. You could even dampen the paste a bit and gently rub it onto the stain. Let the fabric dry completely then brush off the residue and wash the fabric in water.
Gram-positive bacteria have cell walls that contain thick layers of peptidoglycan, a substance that forms the cell walls of many bacteria. The peptidoglycan forms about 90% of the cell wall in gram-positive bacteria. This causes them to appear blue to purple under a Gram stain.
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Optical Brightening Agents (OBAs), also referred to as Fluorescent Whitening Agents (FWAs), are another component of laundry detergent and is why most laundry detergents are the color blue.
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You might not believe it, but sweat on its own is actually colorless and odorless. So why yellow stains? A common ingredient in antiperspirants is aluminum, which reacts with your sweat and bacteria on your skin and stains your clothing, sheets and even your mattress.
APPLICATION OF TOLUIDINE BLUE
Connective tissue mucins, especially acid mucins. The tissue stains purple to red, while the background is stained blue.
One specific speculation: Some toilet seats have an antibacterial coating that could potentially react with your changing body chemistry or medications you may be taking, thereby turning blue.
Blue stains can indicate a problem with the water softening system, but it is very rare. These stains are more common in homes with acidic well water rather than city water.
Wash your sheets as normal with dyer's detergent added. Use very hot water for cottons and warm or cool water for wool or silk sheets. This will help remove the excess dye from your sheets. You will need about 1/4 of a cup of detergent for a full load, less if the fabric is a fiber other than cotton.
"It is likely the acidic pH of sweat interacting with textile dyes and antiperspirants that leads to this [bleaching] effect."
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using too much, or poor-quality detergent and/or fabric softener. overloading the washing machine. not washing frequently enough (every 7-10 days is recommended) using chlorine bleach.
The increased numbers of lipofuscin pigments in the secretory apocrine cells are presumed to be the cause of apocrine chromhidrosis. Several extrinsic causes of eccrine chromhidrosis and pseudochromhidrosis include chromogenic bacteria, especially Corynebacterium species, fungi, dyes, drugs, and chemical contactants.
Eccrine chromhidrosis is due to water-soluble coloured dyes and other chemicals being excreted in the eccrine sweat. Examples include: Ingestion of medications, metals, and dyes including tartrazine-coated bisacodyl laxatives, quinine, rifampicin, clofazimine, methylene blue, mercury, and copper.
Apocrine chromhidrosis has no fully satisfactory cure or treatment. Patients can manually or pharmacologically empty the glands to achieve a symptom-free period of about 48-72 hours or until the glands replenish the pigment.
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