What should I use to disinfect my baby boy's toys?
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 at
6:01 pm
My son is sick with a viral infection. Snot all over the place. My poor baby boy! I need to know what is safe for me to clean his plush and hard surface toys. He is 9 months, so he has the toys in is mouth constantly. Thank you in advance for your answers.
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Wash soft toys with hot water in the washer. Hard plastic toys can usually be boiled or you can use a diluted solution of vinegar and water. DON’T spray that horrible Lysol spray all over his toys!!!! You wouldn’t believe how many people I’ve seen do that. If you have it, you could also use a Bio-Green cleaner, they’re non-toxic and biodegradeable (which is good for the environment).
And relax, remember, he can’t get the same virus twice. So even if he puts those toys in his mouth, he won’t get sick again (although another child could).
I wash my boys soft toys by hand and put them in the dryer…his hard toys in the dishwasher. I wipe his exersaucer, etc. down with disinfectant wipes. Hope this helps!
I use diluted vinegar. It’s antibacterial, and it’s not going to hurt him to get it in his mouth. Spray down/wipe hard toys, and put stuffed animals in the washer with some vinegar too. It kills germs, and gets out any odors, too!
try fenreeze on soft surfaces and let it sit a little while and use disinfecting wipes safe for kids on the hard toys
The toys that can be soaked in water soak them. The other toys I would just use Dish soap, it’s, mild and you wash your babies bottles with Dish soap.
wash anything that is soft in hot water, for plastic toys I use the Clorox Anywhere Spray. I love it, it is safe around kids and animals and kills 99.9% of germs.
http://www.clorox.com/products/overview.php?prod_id=ahsds
for the hard surface toys. Follow the inx directly & let it dry completely before your son plays with them again. It says it’s even safe for pacifiers (although I wouldn’t use it for that).
http://www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=487759&cmSource=Search
I just saw this the other day & it’ll be my new "babyshower" gift!! Uses dry heat so it’s safe for fabric.
Hope your baby feels better soon… there’s nothing worse than when our children are sick
It sucks, but all we can do is cuddle them!
If you have a dishwasher, you can place them in there. I wash all plush toys in the washing machine. Before I had a dishwasher I would spray the toys with Lysol, let it dry, and then hand wash them with dish soap to remove all of the chemical (dish soap is obviously non-toxic).
I throw most in the dishwasher. The ones that can’t go in there or that have parts with batteries and stuff, I wipe down with paper towel and that Clorex in a spray bottle. Than I rinse them off with water, so he is not getting bleach in his mouth.
all the suggestions are good as far as stuff you can actually wash/clean…the only thing I would add is that if some of the toys are raggedgy you might as well throw out ones you don’t really need. Not worth holding on to all those germy toys.