Drinking water from the toilet....

[Leo35]

it's not something that I encourage, and indeed I have actively ensured that DS2 (13 months) has had no chance to do so. Until tonight when I was telling DS1 off , he quietly tottered into the bathroom, where I found him with his right arm in the bowl and and hand in the water at the bottom. I'm fairly sure that he's had a 'taste' too, DS1 had a wee in toilet prior to the incident (observed by DS2 - hence the interest??) just to add the general "eeuk" factor.

Do I just wait it out for the tummy upset? Is it a doctor job if so? Please reassure me Mumsnetters!

If there is any upset it'll happen quite quickly or not at all. Expect the contents of your lavatory were no worse than the average swimming pool and toddlers tend to have quite a collection of germs on hands at the best of times, given that they resort to crawling quite often Keep an eye on him and, if there are no immediate ill-effects, I expect he'll survive and have a few more antibodies as a result.

Our family cat used to do that! Never harmed her (lived to 21). And I suspect that Chil is absolutely right. Don't folk like Sarah Miles follow diets like that?

My cat does it too, we had to stop using loo blue as I was worried she was going to poison herself!!!!!

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DS2 seems hale and hearty today. So fingers crossed all will be well.

Thankfully no bleach or loo rim flush stuff in the loo so no worries on chemical poisoning! Thanks for the replies and reassurance - it's much appreicated.