How can I get rid of the awful smell in my dishwasher?

This is some advise I heard on Mylot and it works great. Take lemon cut in 2, put it in a bowl of water in the microwave and turn it on for 2 minutes. (now wash the microwave because this will have loosened up the grease in there and refreshed it.) Now take those lemon pieces and put them in your dish washer. In the utensil basket and close it if possible. Run the dishwasher. Once you are doen with that take the remains of the lemons and put them in the garbage disposal. (That cleans and deodorize the disposal too. :)

If it was me, I would run it with a cup full of vinegar, and the regular soap. If it still lingers, I would run it with baking soda in the soap dispenser. Do not do it together, they foam. Good luck, hope this helps. You will, in the process, have a very clean line in your dishwasher. Either one of these is a good maintenance for it.

I would rinse your dishwasher out a couple of times because you put bleach in it. But I would think maybe running some baking soda through it would neutralize the odor at this point. And I don't think that baking soda reacts with bleach. I read that it is always good to give your dishwasher a vinegar treatment every once in awhile. Start your dishwasher with nothing in it. Let it fill up and before it starts to wash add 1 cup of vinegar and let the cycle continue. I would not do the vinegar treatment right now though as if that combines with bleach you will pass out or worse from the toxic vapors that would create. Good luck with this. Another thing I would recommend is to leave the dishwasher open overnight once it is emptied out. That should air it out and help to remove the odors. Have a nice day and happy myLotting!!!