Toddler ate raw flour ! Panicking

[Jennifer78]

Is this terrible of me? We made home made play dough (just like we used to when I worked at a nursery) so the flour wasn’t cooked.

Toddler put a chunk in her mouth and was eating it. I wasn’t concerned but my partner pointed out that’s not a good idea so I have googled and seen it can contain ecoli and it’s very dangerous. I’m now panicking !!??? I never knew this !!! On the back of the pack it says raw only eat cooked - I never would have thought uncooked flour was such a risk!? I ate it all the time as a kid in cake mix etc 😫

They'll be fine. Don't panic.

I think it's one of those things that we all did but can carry a risk.

All you can do is watch for any signs of sickness.

I still eat cake mix and raw egg...but I wouldn't if I had any risk factors.

It never occurred to me flour might be a risk? What about bread rolls that have it scattered on top? I survived many a 'scraped bowl' as a child. I think most of us probably did!

She'll be fine. My daughter eats it like it's sugar every time we bake no matter how much I protest. I don't know why because it must taste gross.

My dh got really irate I let the kids eat cake mix left overs because of the raw eggs but I never thought of flour as a potential hazard.

I doubt there's a child out there who hasn't stuffed some flour or homemade play doh in their mouth.
She'll be fine 🙂

Do you know how much cake mix & cookie dough, my family have consumed in our x amount of years on this planet. probably enough to fill 25 olympic swimming pools
. It’s fine.

I can't count how many times DD has done this. Your little one will be ok :)

This is why some play dough recipes have large amounts of salt. To make a child’s pit it out if they try to eat it

I wouldn’t worry though.

I eat raw flour every time I make cake or biscuits - so a couple of times a week.

But, it's worth putting a mountain of salt in the playdoh - stops anything growing in it if you store it for a few weeks, and makes kids spit it out if they try to eat it!

Most likely you have nothing to worry about. Your toddler is probably is probably putting other things into their mouth too.

It's very very unlikely to cause any problems.

Put salt in it in future to discourage.

My toddlers eat raw cookie dough every time we bake, no matter how many times I ask them not to. They’re typically very obedient kids, but that’s the one thing they can’t resist. It would be hypocritical of me to get too upset, because I can’t resist it either. 😳

Its fine the risk is really low
But if you do want to avoid her eating it again, you can dump the flour on a baking tray and bake it first to kill of anything- we used to have to do it to make a safe version of cookie dough for eating raw

I think it's to preserve it so you can keep it for longer.

OP she'll be absolutely fine.

I can't remember the last time I heard of anyone getting e.coli from eating raw flour, your toddler will be fine.

My son once licked a pram tyre and drank water out of a manhoke cover. My sister ate a house spider. We have all eaten a lot of uncooked cake mix.

Your child will be OK, don't worry!

My friends DS ate a bit of snail UGH! However all well and good and now grown up! Your LO will be fine Im sure .

Oh yeah, flashback to a family I used to nanny for who lived on a farm. The children drank out of the bloody water troughs, green slime, bird feathers and all! They thought I was really uptight for not letting them on my watch!! They had the toughest constitutions.