Does anyone else find that Ikea kid's mattresses smell of hamsters?

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Bought dd a bed from IKEA with one of those extendable 3 piece mattresses. Since we have put the bed up her room has been smelling increasingly like it is a hamster's home.

When I changed her bedding tonight it stank of hamsters - then I sniffed the mattress and it reeks of hamsters - well maybe it's a sort of musty sawdusty sort of smell but it reminds me of hamsters.

What can I do? More to the point, what is the smell?

kids' of course before the GPs pick me up

Mice?

no is the smell of the mattress defo

No mice

Is there sawdust in the mattress?

errr..I think it is foam

I mean, maybe there were mice at Ikea and they left a smell on the mattress?

it is this one
No mention of sawdust or rodents

it was wrapped in sealed thick plastic so can't believe that mice got in

We have a children's mattress from Ikea and there is no smell to it at all.

Weird... DS had an IKEA matress and definitively it doesn't smell like hamsters... Any possibility that the mattress had been not properly packaged? (I guess that if humidity gets in and then ferments inside, it will definitively smell of hamsters...)

Have you tried giving it with a spray with something like fabreze (sp) to see if that will get rid of it.

Not a damp smell is it - condesation inside the plastic?

Could it be something that the foam has been treated with? Fire-retardant treatment/chemicals?

Not hamsters, but dd1 has done a drawing (including arrows to point at her sisters bed) for santa, to explain that if he smells wee wee it is her sisters bed and not hers

take it back - your childs room should not smell of hamsters!

oh god I can't face another trip to ikea!

I would take it back, just in case.

poor you

very funny thread though

changing stuff or getting missing bits from ikea is normally a nightmare

I looked after the school hamster for a bit at primary school, but honestly can't recall the smell! DD's Ikea sprung cot mattress doesn't smell at all. A nice lavender water spray? Leave it propped against the wall in a room with the windows open all day? Sounds like it needs airing.

no, take it back it smell of hamsters!

ok enid will email to you

We got one of these about 4 years ago and the matress did stink - hamster sounds right. I just took off the covers and washed them - I think it is the fire retardant stuff that makes them smell, but since the kids don't smoke in bed I reckoned it was safe to wash it way!

My child just woke up choking on a new ikea mattress after 4 hours sleeping on it.
Like he has some kind of aligy to it.
Throat swollen.
Not sure if it's a coincidence but the mattress stinks of chemicals