child's piss. who is BU?

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Today toddler DD pissed in her toy box. 'Luckily' most of her toys were on the floor at the time, so I threw some stuff in the washing machine and cleaned all the plastic stuff in a basin of soapy water.

Now DH is ranting that I need to bleach the basin and the sink. He is also horrified that when she pisses in the potty I empty it in the toilet then give it a quick rinse in the bathroom sink. Apparently this is hideously unhygienic. I think he's being totally OTT and it's only a bit of piss, rinsing/cleaning with soap and water is totally sufficient. Am I putting my family's health at risk with my slatternly ways?

Apparently the rinsing in the bathroom sink is unacceptable in case he accidentally drops his toothbrush in there.

Tell him not to worry, on this occasion you just didn't have time to run them through the dishwasher.

Ok, tell DH I take back my lazy git comment.

I think urine is only sterile until it leaves the body though. I have two boys and if their aim is off and their wee splashes on the toilet it smells. If I haven't noticed and see it later it is unpleasant. They are still quite small but learning to aim and also to clean up after themselves.

Wee is sterile isn't it?

He'd be doing it himself here if he was that bothered about it.

My 4 year old peed on the xbox when he was potty training. To this day I firmly believe it wasn't an accident; DH had been bitching and moaning that "so and so's daughter was potty trained by 20 months, why is he taking so long" and the next morning, poof, the xbox was covered in peepee. Men need to get a grip when it comes to this stuff, it's only wee.

If he's so fastidious, let him get on with bleaching himself into a frenzy. I don't think I've bleached a sink in my life, and nobody's died yet.

He's being ridiculous.

But if he feels thst strongly about it, what's stopping him bleaching it himself?

Bet he won't though. Dealing with piss and bleaching is your job according to him isn't it?

1. wee is sterile. i read an awful holocaust survivor's story and he was forced on one of those death marches towards the end of the war and he had an awful raw wound on one of his ankles and every time they stopped he would purposefully wee on it to help it heal and it worked.
2. my friend is a nurse and she tips the full potty down the sink every time, so it really can't be that bad
3. i got a packet of dettol wet wipes for kitchen surfaces and wipe our potty with that every time i can be arsed (once a week or when we have visitors who don't have children come and see me deal with it), you can keep a pack in different rooms just to keep your partner happy, he doesn't need to know how often they are used and can grab one and clean the sink if he's bothered

I just rinse the potty for a wee and spray it with Cillit Bang then rinse if it's been pooed in. I don't think anything that has just been weed on needs bleaching but if he insists then by all means hand him the bleach if he insists that it does.

...although if he is that inept at housework/childcare he may well mistake the dettol wipes for normal baby wipes....maybe not a good idea

Just spray a bit of Detox....I thought that's what everyone did.

I would and have done exactly the same as you! YANBU