What Causes Our Sweat to Take the Dye Out of Our Sheets

A.

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Your daughter needs to be examined by a doctor, her pediatrician AND a neurologist. You need to tell the doctor about the sweat and changes in the sheets so they can run a blood test to find out what is going on with your daughter.

I know that some acne medications will bleach some sheets and towels.
Benzoyl peroxide does that - and you can get some resistant sheets (polyester I think) that won't lose color the way that cotton does.
Probably any sort of peroxide will affect cloth colors - so if she's doing anything with her hair color that might also be a factor too.
Is she doing her own laundry yet?
Maybe she's using some bleach based stain remover?
Maybe she's trying to remove some blood stains if her period caught her by surprise and she leaked?
Anyone can make a laundry mistake from time to time.

I have no ideas about sweat bleaching sheets.
You can have her use white sheets/towels- they won't lose color.
If she's having seizures she should be seeing a doctor and it would be good for everyone to be reviewing what sort of chemicals she might be coming into any contact with - soaps, lotions, laundry products, cleaning products, makeup, hair products, etc.

I would hope you have taken her to a Dr by now and have asked him/her.

We have no clue.

Couple of thoughts.

My husband (and my BIL) both sweat in their sleep and their pillowcases turn discolored.

Is she on medication for her seizures? Medications can affect things like sweat (especially neurological medications). I would look up side effects to her medications or ask a pharmacist.

Check with her doctors. They would be able to give you a definite answer (if it's related to her seizures or medication). You might want to note if it's happening to clothes too, certain times of the month, etc. Keep a log. Take it in with you next appointments.

Am I reading and understanding this right? You are more concerned about the dye coming out of your sheets than your grand daughter's seizures?? Please tell me I am reading this wrong. Please tell me your priority is NOT the dye in the sheets but your grand daughter's seizures!!! You realize seizures are NOT normal right?

What does her neurologist say about her seizures?
What does her neurologist say about the blood work he/she has done on your daughter?

You need to let the neurologist know what has changed in your daughter's life, her diet and everything (whether she started her period or not). If there are any stressors in her life right now. Things that might be affecting her chemical/hormonal balance in her body.,

Please come back and let us know that she is already under a doctor's care for seizures! That's going to be anyone's first thought here -- the seizures are the bigger issue.

Once we know she's getting professional care and monitoring and maybe medication: I do think you need to tell the doctors about the sheets. Bear in mind: The issue may not be that chemicals are leaching into her body from the sheets; the issue may be that whatever is causing the seizures is causing her to sweat excessively. Unless she has a very specific sensitivity to the dyes in the sheets, the likelier issue is not that the sheets are harming her but that she's causing the sheets to fade.

Are these brand-new sheets or very recently purchased--? If they've been around a while they should have been washed enough times that the fixatives that make new, unwashed sheets stiff are all washed out. If they are new and not washed or washed just a few times before she started using them -- get her sleeping on the oldest, most washed-out sheets possible. Ask the doctors about all this.

A thought: The dye issue may be totally unrelated to her seizure condition or to the meds she's taking for that (if any). Does she wash her face or any part of her body with any washes that contain acne medication? Especially benzoyl peroxide for acne? Or even salicylic acid. Acne creams, lotions and even just face or body washes that you think "wash off" and supposedly don't stay on the skin definitely will bleach areas on sheets and towels. Our color towels have large white areas on them from my teen drying her face after washing with a benzoyl peroxide face wash. Check all products she uses on face, body or hair.

I hope the doctors can help control her seizure condition and she is doing better!

Thanks for your question A. G.

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this would be one of many questions i'd be asking the doctors about her seizures.

and far down on my list of concerns.

khairete
S.

This should be reported to her pediatrician or her neurologist by you or by her parents (not sure if she lives with you). Whoever is treating her for her seizures will know what medications she is on and what the effects will be. I'm sure you're not at all concerned about your sheets and are just concerned about your granddaughter, so do inform the appropriate physicians (all of those involved) and let them decide if it is relevant. Meantime, switch to white sheets and launder regularly.

Please edit your question or put something in the "So What Happened" box to confirm that she is being treated already. Otherwise you risk this being taken as a troll-type question and the answers won't be as polite as they have been so far. This is your first question so we don't know anything at all about you - such as whether your granddaughter lives with you or how long this has been going on.