How to clean sick off DD1's Beanie Baby?

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DD is 1. She has a vomiting bug tonight and the first thing she was sick on was (of course) her favourite toy. Of course it's a cuddly Peppa Pig toy that a) you can only get from Peppa Pig World 100 miles away in Southampton and b) Is a Beanie Baby.

Can anyone help me work out how to get vomit off it please? I don't think sponging off the exterior is going to cut it.

Posting for traffic before the sick dries on. I don't want to do the wrong thing after that time I put a wheat pack through the washing machine and it... sprouted or something.

To be fair to DD, she did also hit her Jellycat bunny but I already found the MN thread on how to clean those. 😊

I don't think sponging off the exterior is going to cut it.
Or is it? If someone knowledgable can confirm that would help a lot! I'm worried the sick will have soaked in and need washing out.

Just put it in the washing machine. Every time my kids were sick we chucked all of the soft toys in the machine. Beanies, JellyCats, everything. Try a gentle cycle if you’re worried. And in future make sure you have two “special” toys.

Thank you, I'll queue it for the next cycle on the washing machine. I don't know if it's lack of sleep but I had this horrible worry that Beanie Babies were made out of the same stuff as wheat packs and that I'd wash it and end up with very soggy, smelly mush all over again.

I've always washed DC's soft toys (inc a couple of old beanie babies) in the machine. Put it in a pillow case or laundry bag to stop the eyes getting scratched. Put a couple of clean towels in with it. And wash it in the hand wash setting.

DD was sick in a wheat bag plushie and I cut a small hole in the seam, drained the beans out before washing the ‘skin’ in the machine. Refilled it and sewed it back up.

Just chuck the blighter in the wash!

I'm pretty sure that they have plastic 'beans' inside

Update: We washed Peppa on the 2am wash between going up to DD and changing the sheets again and again.

For anyone else in this situation, I washed her on the 30 degree delicates cycle and she didn't show any signs of damage to the soft toy part.

I tried to protect the label using cling film and sellotape. It didn't work and water still got in. Most of the label was fine but the top of it disintegrated so it came off the plastic tag. She is now label-less and drying on the line.

DD has been to visit her in "toy hospital" which was also a mistake with a 1-year-old as she didn't understand why she couldn't take Peppa off the washing line (my four-year-old loves visiting toys in toy hospital wherever we're fixing them etc). D'oh.