# Human Feces cleaning from clothing **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 13, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-feces-cleaning-from-clothing/637631 "2012-10-13T17:47:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-feces-cleaning-from-clothing/637631/41 "2012-10-15T04:20:09Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > Plumbers get shit all over them all the time, they wash dry and wear and don’t get sick. Amazing! Plumbers are mostly dealing with single-household water and sewer/septic systems, and not the nasty crap you get from a city drain when it’s overflowed from too much rain. They also wash their clothes when they get off work, and don’t stick them (still wet and sewery) in tupperware for a year to rot and grow icky organisms. ---
**Author:** ![FuzzyOgre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@FuzzyOgre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuzzyOgre)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-feces-cleaning-from-clothing/637631/42 "2012-10-15T06:13:13Z")
Chuck em. Not for the fecal matter, but because there is no way to know what chemicals might be in that sewer water. ---
**Author:** ![qualityleashdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/9f8e36/32.png) [@qualityleashdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qualityleashdog)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-feces-cleaning-from-clothing/637631/43 "2012-10-15T06:13:41Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Throw them out–the container, too. > > You got along without missing these clothes for a year? You don’t love them that much. Abso-Lutely! See you next year! ---
**Author:** ![qualityleashdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/9f8e36/32.png) [@qualityleashdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qualityleashdog)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-feces-cleaning-from-clothing/637631/44 "2012-10-15T06:17:20Z")
I think I’ve seen this shit on an episode of ‘Hoarders.’ ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-feces-cleaning-from-clothing/637631/45 "2012-10-15T10:33:27Z")
I would have thought that, regardless of a bit of poop contamination (which wouldn’t faze me, but then I have an infant daughter), the fabric would have deteriorated and rotted after a year spent festering and damp in a container? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-feces-cleaning-from-clothing/637631/46 "2012-10-15T10:42:07Z")
> [@Zjestika](#): > > Try searching on ebay for your clothes. By someone else’s sewage tainted clothing?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dad-sr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@Dad-sr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dad-sr)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-feces-cleaning-from-clothing/637631/47 "2014-01-12T19:35:16Z")
In the “old” days my wife and I rinsed soiled cloth diapers, (remember them).in the commode before putting them in a pail to be washed. Even then we used chlorine bleach to get rid of the stains and all. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-feces-cleaning-from-clothing/637631/48 "2014-01-12T21:18:48Z")
How did you deal with zombie stains? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-feces-cleaning-from-clothing/637631/49 "2014-01-12T21:37:48Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > How did you deal with zombie stains? Damn, now we’ll never get to ask why the hell she put the shirt in the container too. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-feces-cleaning-from-clothing/637631/50 "2014-01-12T22:28:29Z")
There’s bacteria everywhere , the clothes only had to be washed. Unfortunate that we weren’t told if the OP went on to develop a deadly fungal infection from the spores released from the items in the container… It is possible to inhale too many fungi spores , eg when turning the compost in the garden. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-feces-cleaning-from-clothing/637631.md?page=2)