Patient/caregiver was educated on cleaning and disinfecting clothing and laundry items for COVID-19 as follows:
- Always have disposable gloves on, when handling soiled/dirty laundry.
- Immediately put to wash all the clothes, towels, linens, blankets, bedsheets, comforters, pillow covers, and other clothing accessories that may have been exposed to infected/quarantined individual’s body fluids. Dirty laundry of an infected/quarantined individual could be washed along with the laundry items of others in the household.
- Do not shake the dirty laundry items while handling them to put for wash. Shaking the dirty laundry can result in the release of viral particles that are holding on to the dirty laundry items, if any, which could be inhaled by individuals around contributing to transmission of virus. Also, you can choose to discard heavily soiled laundry items, as scrubbing and scraping the contamination from the cloth could result in increased dispersing of viral particles, if any, thus increasing the chance for individuals taking care of the laundry to contact the virus.
- Use the regular detergent for washing with the washer set on warm water setting. Also, after washing is complete, dry the laundry items with the drier set on warm setting.
