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Ingesting remnants of cleaning spray - what to do?

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Bettyfromduggee · 12/10/2020 19:13

My husband is already on hold to 111 as I insisted that we ring and ask for advice.

This morning I sprayed my daughter's highchair down with method antibac cleaning spray. I left it on for a few minutes to work but forgot to wipe it down again.

This evening she sat up and ate her dinner mainly off the tray, including things that were wet like beans and strawberries. She had finished her dinner and had left a couple of pieces of strawberry so I decided to eat them and they tasted funny, like soap. Then I suddenly realised that I had forgotten to wipe the fluid off.

The tray looked dry when she was first sat at the table but I didn't really check, we just popped her in and got on with her dinner. Now I'm panicking that eating food covered in (even maybe dried up) remnants of spray will have hurt her. I wanted to call 111 but my husband thinks I'm being silly. WWYD?

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bloodywhitecat · 12/10/2020 19:20

I'd do nothing. She'll be fine.

opinionatedfreak · 12/10/2020 19:22

I'm with your husband.

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Bettyfromduggee · 12/10/2020 19:28

Hmm ok thanks, I'm hoping I am just being really silly and that she will be fine! I'm just panicking a bit. I can blame the pregnancy hormones I think...

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Torvean32 · 12/10/2020 19:32

It'll be fine. It was hours later she ate off it.

NoSquirrels · 12/10/2020 19:35

She'll be OK, try not to worry. If you'd sprayed the food then different story, but really nothing bad will have happened to her for this.

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Bettyfromduggee · 12/10/2020 19:37

It was the fact that I could actually taste it that made me worry, so it means that it must have transferred onto the food otherwise it wouldn't have tasted weird.

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iftherewereahorseyinthehouse · 12/10/2020 19:37

I think my babies probably ingested cleaning spray every day, depending on how well l bothered to clean their high chair. Either that or encrusted porridge. Although I am interested in what 111 say, I hope they haven't got many people with COVID trying to get through...😬 please let your husband off the hook OP!

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Bettyfromduggee · 12/10/2020 19:37

@Torvean32 would it have stopped being harmful after a while?

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NoSquirrels · 12/10/2020 19:37

And if it was Method spray it's plant-based, non-toxic and bleach free so really, do try not to worry.

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Bettyfromduggee · 12/10/2020 19:39

@iftherewereahorseyinthehouse I thought someone might accuse me of wasting NHS time, but she's a toddler and it's antibacterial spray so can't exactly be great for her to have all over her food. My DH isn't on or off the hook, but he thought I was being silly.

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Bettyfromduggee · 12/10/2020 19:41

111 say that a clinician will call back but they obviously aren't sending an ambulance or anything like that! I expect they will say to keep an eye on her and that if she starts being sick we should call back. Or something like that. The call handler didn't seem overly worried but it also didn't sound like she thought it was completely ridiculous to even call them.

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Mrsjayy · 12/10/2020 19:45

Wash her tray again with fairy and use a plate I know its all about the flinging on the tray these days just put her meals on a plate and she won't be tasting cleaning spray.

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Bettyfromduggee · 12/10/2020 19:47

@Mrsjayy

Wash her tray again with fairy and use a plate I know its all about the flinging on the tray these days just put her meals on a plate and she won't be tasting cleaning spray.
I'm not sure what you mean 'it's all about the flinging on the tray these days'. Not like the good old days where people were really committed to their plates and bowls...?!

Anyway that's not really what I was asking for advice on but thanks anyway. FWIW she tends to throw plates and bowls and all of the 'stick on' ones we've found don't actually stick properly, at least not after the first couple of uses, and I got bored of spending money on them.

Of all the things in the world I thought the MN police would pick up on, putting food on a highchair tray was not one of them.

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Mrsjayy · 12/10/2020 19:50

Well i hope your baby is OK she will be im sure and my advice was unsolicited I do apologise.

randomsabreuse · 12/10/2020 19:51

Stuff might as well start on the tray as that's where it's going to end up, just less weaponry and less likely to all end up on the floor in one swipe...

I only used "taint free" stuff tbh because I knew full well my wiping wouldn't be thorough!

PleasantVille · 12/10/2020 19:55

Oh dear, yet another thread that makes me doubt my parenting, I genuinely can't imagine even registering this if it had happened to me. My children need to count themselves lucky they survived Grin

I'm going to predict that all will be well

Thesearmsofmine · 12/10/2020 19:55

OP you are being pretty rude to people!

Your DD will be fine, if the food was covered in the spray your DD wouldn’t have happily eaten much of it and Method is non toxic and safe fr food prep areas without needing to be washed away so I wouldn’t worry.

BlackberrySky · 12/10/2020 19:59

It will have been a tiny amount. She will be fine.

JanewaysBun · 12/10/2020 20:07

I always just wipe the tray down with an anti bac wipe, do people wipe with water after?
(I've been easily swayed by an ad I saw on tv where the lady wipes the tray then the baby eats off it). Both DC still alive happy to report!

Goodebe · 12/10/2020 20:10

I think day after day it might be an issue but as a one off I would not worry in the slightest if this happened to my DD

FelicityPike · 12/10/2020 20:15

@JanewaysBun

I always just wipe the tray down with an anti bac wipe, do people wipe with water after? (I've been easily swayed by an ad I saw on tv where the lady wipes the tray then the baby eats off it). Both DC still alive happy to report!
No, of course they don’t. Mine has survived this too. And OP, you ARE being rude.
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Bettyfromduggee · 12/10/2020 20:15

@Thesearmsofmine I've only been a bit rude to @Mrsjayy but that's cos her reply was not at all helpful and a bit smug. As far as I can tell I've been nice to everyone else!

Thank you all, I expect she probably will be fine, I don't usually wash it down after @JanewaysBun but I would at least wipe it with the cloth if that makes sense but I sprayed a load on and then left it to work and intended to go back and then wipe clean. I was fairly liberal with it as well, and if the strawberry hadn't tasted funny then I probably wouldn't have even thought twice about it but I panicked when it tasted so weird!

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Mrsjayy · 12/10/2020 20:17

I really wasn't meaning to be smug I just don't think food should be on high chair trays but as I said it wasn't needed sorry.

Soubriquet · 12/10/2020 20:18

Now if she had gotten the bottle and drank it, then I could see the panic, but she will be fine

It was a spray that had been left to dry

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Bettyfromduggee · 12/10/2020 20:19

@FelicityPike don't think my other replies were rude at all. Thank you for your reply

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