To not disinfect my daughters toilet seat?

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Family member has dissed dd's toilet training seat. It's one of those folding ones with a built in step.

One as being expensive and swanky at £15.00 (she had a stool and seat from Ikea that were £10.00 each but that's cheaper as she got two things )

And this is the bit that is bothering me.
It's apparently unhygenic. Because I only wipe it down with antibacterial spray and a cloth like the toilet. I should buy a normal child's toilet seat like she did so it can be soaked in Milton and thoroughly disinfected of bum germs.

AIBU? Are we meant to disinfect toilet seats? If so why did I not know this?

When I read these stories I often wonder how DD ever managed to survive to 8 years old as I never even bought a bottle of Milton let alone used it on the toilet seat.
However I have taught her to wash her hands properly that is wash for time it takes to sing happy birthday twice - stop short of WHO technique.

yanbu .

If it makes you feel better at all I had a friend who was using disinfectant wipes on her son's potty and it gave him a bum rash. So, a few immune system building germs verses a bum rash, you decide!

I suppose you could always put it in the dishwasher if you don't mind the poo particles all over your cutlery.

Depends how often she licks the toilet seat!

Quint....that's what Miltons for. cleaning.

Unless you are saying you disassemble your shower and cubicle entirely and soak it for hours in Milton I'm hazarding a guess that you are normal

I'm laughing too. i can't even imagine where she got the idea!

YANBU.

Cillit...

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BANG!

And the dirt is gone.

Only thing that works around these parts - I think our water is 50% chalk

yanbu.

I can't think of what on earth can happen to an arse sitting on a seat, particularly since it's the same arse that sat on it previously.

Quick wipe over with anti-bac and kitchen towel (the paper variety of course) is perfectly sufficient.

...Wondering if she's removing the adult toilet seat and soaking that in Milton too.

Beggars belief really!

Mum is better than she was, she is more chilled about germs. It took many years for her to get to where she is though and she is still undergoing counselling now some 30 years later. She even eats out in restaurants and at other people's houses now, as far as I know she no longer equips herself with a Dettol loaded flannel for hand-washing while out either and it's been a long time since she threatened me with one .

We didn't have many pick & mix style sweets when we were kids, foam shrimps/bananas etc end up as a soggy heap but we were sometimes allowed gob-stoppers provided they'd had the 30 minute immersion in Milton first.

Words fail me.

What is Milton?

Milton Me love.

I've never bought Milton either. Always cleaned toilet seat the way you do OP. She's a nut bar.

Ooh I think he's great. Not sure about using him to clean a loo seat though!

jellie - au contraire - I think that, judging by that Wikipedia picture, he'd be ideal for removing stains and limescale from under the rim.

No, but great for cleaning my shower!

Well I'd lick my own toilet seat sooner than eat pick and mix without soaking in Milton. All those dirty hands - and we all know how few people wash their hands after using the toilet.

TBH pick and mix is the same as licking a public toilet risk-wise.

I thought using Anti-bac spray is disinfecting. Or am I being thick?

What is she going to do when said child sits on a public lav, soak the child in Milton?

Perhaps I should keep a bowl of Milton by the toilet when she visits do she can sanitise her bum?

i've recently cleaned my fridge with milton, but i regret it. before it was grubby - now it sparkles, but it stinks!

milton's fluid. not the poet. if i'd cleaned the fridge with a long-dead poet i wouldn't be surprised by the smell.

Yanbu, I just wipe dd's seat. Have never heard of anybody soaked them in Milton!

I have no idea what Milton is but I don't disinfect my DDs toilet seat. Its honestly never occured to me to do so.

Kelly, nor me, till this weekend.