Help! RED cough syrup stain!

[Margarita]

My husband dropped a bottle of red cough syrup on our carpet this weekend, and the lid popped right off - child-proof and everything! Great. So now we have this pink stain on our carpet that we can't seem to get rid of. I tried Resolve carpet cleaner (3x), hydrogen peroxide, Windex (tip from online), and Dawn dish soap followed by a low-heat iron (tip from online - I guess it was supposed to steam clean it out). I don't think anything except the Resolve made a difference, but I also think Resolve has done as much as it can. What now?

[HeavenLeigh]

:lol: so much for those blasted child proof lids, eh?

Hmmm.....I usually use resolve. The guy that put my new carpet in told me if I ever dropped pop on the carpet to use Club soda on it. I'm sure it won't get the pink stain out but it is suppose to draw out the stickiness so dirt won't stick to it making a black stain. Which is lovely, Clutzy--I mean Tommy--spilled a pop when my back was turned and used water (WATER?) to "clean" it. Now there's a big lovely stain on my NEW carpet :fmad: Men!

There is one cleaner that someone told me about....I can't remember the name but it's sold at Wal Mart and has oxyclean in it. They said it works great, but I have never tried it.

BTW.....the Tide to go pen is amazing. Gets stains out of clothes that you wouldn't believe. If all else fails-try that.

[Margarita]

Thanks for the tips, Krysti. I still don't know what to do. I tried something with oxyclean in it today, and it didn't do a thing. I'm not worried about stickiness because with everything we've tried, I'm sure only the pink stain is left by now.

Anyone else?

[meliz]

Hmmm... we have off white berber carpet throughout... I feel your pain!

What about a professional cleaner? What about soda? Maybe the friction/sandpaper effect would help?

[jessica]

What does it look like now - has it gotten any better? Maybe the Resolve actually set the stain in?

[suzieq728]

Hey M
I know your gonna think I am nuts, but this worked for me, and I have a tan carpet. I sprayed some clorox clean up on it, not regular clorox, but clorox clean up. At the time I was doing it, I didnt realize what I had grabbed, I just started spraying like crazy and then my sister came in screaming at me to stop I had the clorox. Well I thought, there goes that carpet, (not that I would have minded, I hate it anyway), but to my surprise that stain was gone. It was Logans grape juice by the way. I will admit the carpet is much cleaner in that one spot, but hey, the stain is gone LOL...

[HeavenLeigh]

I never thought of Clorox....you never said what your carpet color is Margs. If it's not in the white/off white family, maybe Clorox for colors?

[Margarita]

It's a solid light beige color - great for carpet! :rolleyes: It's still a light pink stain.

I went to Home Depot today to ask, and both employees I talked to were like, "Oh...cough syrup...oh". Just what I wanted to hear! They suggested to keep working on it with Resolve because I may eventually get it out with that. One had owned a carpet business and showed me some stuff that he used along with a machine cleaner and said I could rent one from there. I may do that if repeated Resolve treatments don't work.

[JackieB]

Don't use the iron on it anymore, heat will set the stain.

Other than that I have no useful advice, I just use Shout on everything.