You'll need to get deep into the mattress to completely get rid of the smell. I was thinking a mix of baking soda or Oxy Clean and hot water poured on the bed and left to air dry. If you like a fresh scent add a some liquid air freshener like Febreeze if you must. If it didn't go all the way through to the other side you don't have to flip. But if it did, well you get the idea. To be completely honest, Febreeze made the smell worse for us but all we had was the first one put out there. Maybe the super odor remover will be best.

Vinegar usually works to take away the smell. I would probably dilute it to 25% vinegar to water, if being sprayed on a mattress.

It will take away the smell of cooking fish, if you leave just a cap of it in the kitchen too.

Cherie

I use lots and lots of Lysol.

you could try calling a store that sells matresses
and ask them what to do.

i bought a large mattress protector at a
medical supply store.

when i bought my tempurpedic bed they sold me
something that covered the whole mattress and
would absorb a lot of fluid if needed. and, it can
be laundered. worth the $$ since the bed cost so
much.

Thank you everyone for your suggestions.

Once I can get rid of the odor, I'll buy a mattress protector. They're quite expensive and I don't have the $$$ right now, but I will get one ..... when I can afford it. I have them on the pillows, just not the mattress yet.

Meanwhile you can buy one of those baby protector things....can't remember what they are called - look in the baby section of your department store and sleep with this under you....

You can also buy disposable pads for underneath you until you can buy a mattress one. We always carry disposable pads while out of town.

This would be my first idea, and I'd dissolve baking soda into boiling water then add the vinegar and massage it into the fibers.

Koala, you are still in the summer months, so maybe you can find a place to dry and air it outside too? If so, you could increase the strength of the vinegar to water solution. (Baking soda does draw out smell too...)

I wouldn't leave the mattress in the direct sunlight though. If it is damp from using a solution, you could cover it with a blanket and then put it in the sunlight to dry it quicker.

The vinegar smell might stay for a few days, but it will let up eventually. I've had to use it on my carpets when my babies and animals had accidents, and it's always worked. Try to soak up as much liquid as possible though.

You can buy just a small mattress pad, which shouldn't be too expensive. Try a 2nd hand store with baby fixtures, and bleach it well.

Cherie

Sounds like you got a lot of good suggestions.
I am so sorry you are dealing with this problem...I feel that incontinence is one of the more demorallizing issues with any of these neuro problems.