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Illness from mice?

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Snowdropfairy85 · 03/09/2019 09:47

We’re just completing an extension to the sidebar of our house and there have been points when there have been holes from the outside through to the inside. We live next to a meadow. We now have mice, I knew this would happen but my husband usually dismisses my concerns as I’m a worrier, which I do admit. Anyway pest control man cams and put down traps, he’s coming back in two weeks. Based on the droppings he thinks it’s just one mouse at the most two (at the moment anyway!) anyway, both my children are complaining of tummy ache. I feel like they might have picked up something nasty that mice carry but I don’t know if I’m overreacting. This has put me in a bit of a tailspin, I feel like nothing is clean and I don’t want to touch anything they might have been on. DH left all the washing up on the side overnight instead of putting it in the cupboard then was using it the next morning which I wouldn’t do as mice have probably been all over it. I don’t know, maybe I am being over the top. I want to obsessively clean but there doesn’t seem much point until they’re definitely gone.

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endofthelinefinally · 03/09/2019 09:51

Mice urinate constantly while they are running about over everything.
You do have to put things away in secure containers and clean all surfaces every morning before preparing food or eating.

BlackInk · 04/09/2019 12:03

Honestly, I think the tummy aches are unlikely to have anything to do with mice. More likely a tummy bug or something simple like constipation, hunger, one child copying the other etc.

Yes, mice can occasionally spread diseases, but it's pretty unlikely. There are little critters roaming around our homes and gardens all the time, unseen by us. This is normal exposure to everyday bacteria and is needed to keep out immune systems strong.

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