How To Remove Molds from Children’s Toys

Molds can infest children’s toys too

You have to clean them up. Molds love to grow on these squeaky bath toys because of the moisture inside. Photo Credits

Molds can grow everywhere, and by everywhere that would mean even in your children’s toys.

Since mold grows where there is moisture, seemingly safe toys like bath toys, and even an infant’s teething toy or ring, can be infested with molds, posing health dangers even to the very young children.

Advice for Parenting Blog shared some of the illnesses kids can get from black molds that may grow in their toys. “The negative health effects are made even worse for a young child. Black mold can cause numerous health problems from coughing, lung infections, and even SIDS…If you have a baby that drools a lot or is teething, they are introducing moisture to their teething ring and toys any time that they teeth on them. That moisture helps to create a veritable breeding ground for mold. If there is one toy that attracts black mold more than any other toy out there is the one that sits with your child in their bath water: the rubber ducky.”

Read the rest of their advice here.

Toys that Trap water inside attract Mold Growth

And just like what the above-mentioned blog site said, it is either you ensure cleanliness of the toys, or choose toys that will not attract mold altogether.
Babyology.com.au featured some bath toys that will not attract molds. “The best design element is that these toys float without the need for a hole in the base. So water will not get trapped inside, which means no bacteria build-up and, best of all, no mould. Genius.”

See the toys here.

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But if you are okay with just cleaning the traditional bath toys and keeping them dry, then you might as well follow these tips from the website raininghotcoupons.com.

The three ways to clean bath toys which they enumerated include cleaning through bleach, vinegar, or the dishwasher. “Bath toys are an important item that need to be cleaned on a regular basis. Cleaning bath toys regularly will not only help them last longer, it will remove any germs that might get stuck with (it).”

Read all the tips here.

Safety from illnesses is very important, and it will help a lot to dedicate time on cleaning children’s toys from time to time to avoid sicknesses in the family.

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