Do you ever wash your scrubs with whites?

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

I need to do a load of whites, but could also use some clean scrubs before I start my next stretch of work days. I know some people here have said they wash their scrubs in hot water. I'm sure my scrubs have been washed plenty enough that they won't bleed. Think it's okay to throw them in the wash with a load of whites?

[caliotter3]

As long as you don't bleach the load, why not?

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

Heh. I was confused as to what you meant when you said whites. That, to me, means my scrubs.

[ky_grl82]

EH, I don't know. With hot water the colors can still bleed onto your whites. If it did you would end up doing a second load anyway to get the dye out of the whites. I wouldn't risk it.

[mshultz]

What color are your scrubs? Red is never safe, even after years, as I know from personal experience. I would not risk intense colors like the purple scrubs shown in the ad associated with this thread, either.

My 22 year old washer and dryer (at 2 loads a week, I expect them to be part of my estate) have only cotton and permanent press settings. As a guy, I only buy permanent press clothes that will "play nice" with the rest of the laundry.

[chenoaspirit, ASN, RN]

I have washed mine with whites, if the scrubs are like pastels or have been washed multiple times. But I would wash them in warm, not hot. And I wouldnt wash a solid dark color like red or blue with whites. Most of my scrubs are multi colored pastels.

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

What color are your scrubs? Red is never safe, even after years, as I know from personal experience.

You didn't like wearing pink drawers?

[crb613, BSN, RN]

I would never wash anything with whites but whites....but heck I starch & iron my scrubs too! :)

[LovebugLPN]

Okay, I am really bad at laundry (ask my husband and son) but if the colors do happen to get onto the whites can't you just bleach the whites?

[sharpeimom]

my basic washing rules are pretty simple. reds, pinks, oranges and most purples wash together in the same load. when i nursed at the state psych hospital, i wore tan docker-like pants or cargo pants with a navy polo shirt with the hospital's logo on it or the reverse: navy pants with a tan polo shirt. i used to wash the tan parts with our undies and the navy components with jeans and dark tops. towels and flannel sheets together and precale sheet sets with similar color shirts etc.

i wash what my grandmas called "kitchen linens" and cat hairball clean-up rags, cleaning rags etc. together in hot water with old fashioned liquid clorox.

if something smells funky, it gets rinsed vinegar, which i put into the fabric softener dispenser.

kathy

shar pei mom:paw::paw:

[mshultz]

You didn't like wearing pink drawers?

I think I did that when I first moved away from home. I still have a couple of red bedspreads that I use as drop cloths, but they do not get washed with other clothes.

It's so nice to have my own washer and dryer, always clean and in perfect repair. Sometimes a commercial dryer would throw a snit and overheat my clothes. The resulting wrinkles were pretty much permanent.

[diane227, LPN, RN]

I don't wear scrubs but my husband does. I wash his scrubs (they are not fancy, they are standard old blue scrubs) in hot water with my white lab coats with bleach.