Share with Dettol the most disgusting things you’ve caught your children doing! £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

[EllieMumsnet]

There’s no doubt that having children can be a pretty messy experience, from having a newborn baby throw up all over you, to having a teenager who hasn’t quite discovered the concept of a laundry bin. With that being said, Dettol would like you to tell us some of the most disgusting things you’ve caught your DC doing.

Here’s what Dettol have to say: “We all know children can do some pretty disgusting things. Maybe it’s not surprising then that kids are one of the main carriers of cold and flu viruses, with 41 percent of cold and flu outbreaks last year reported from schools. With cold and flu season rapidly approaching, it’s important to keep your family safe - both at home and on the go. Dettol Surface Cleanser range provides trusted protection against winter bugs by preventing the spread of germs and bacteria around the home.”

Have you ever caught them using something they really shouldn’t as a toilet? Perhaps you’ve witnessed your DC drinking from the dog bowl. Maybe you saw them lick a piece of cutlery and put it back in the draw without washing it? Or even watched in horror as they licked the hand rail on public transport?

No matter how nauseating the things you’ve found your child doing, share it on the thread below and everyone who comments will be entered into a prize draw where one lucky MNer will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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5 year old DS just informed me very sweetly that he'd been sharing his cup of milk with the cat 😽

My two decided to share a haribo sweet yesterday!

I caught DD1 putting a fag-butt in her mouth (on the ground in the park). Ewwww.

Not my own babies, but my parents love to tell the story of me and my brother when we were little, me with my nappy off, running a toy car through my poop and my brother painting pictures on the wall with it. I honestly know don’t a single person I’ve met/knows us that has not heard this story. My daughter likes to “help” with the washing up and drinks the water from the washing up bowl. No matter how many times I tell her no, she still thinks it’s delicious.

Wanking on a bible

Worst one was probably trying to eat poo, but also had licking things off the floor and almost eating chewing gum they found on the bus

When my son was a toddler he would eat all sorts in the garden. I can’t bear to think about it now ! But he survived it and has a very strong immune system 😀

Recently potty trained DS1 (3) was left alone with tv while I went to the bathroom to shower (taking newborn DS2). On my return, the entire lounge/dining room was covered in little turds. The dining table, the chairs, the sofa cushions, the rug, the floor. I genuinely don't know where he found the control (or the poo!) to make so many deposits, and clearly done in different places, not moved by him. I made him sit in a poo free area while I cleaned up and he weed on the spot to punish me.

My baby ate her own poo.
ew

My son will lick along the edge of the worktop whilst I butter his toast now he is tall enough. He likes the ‘bumps’ of the wood he says. Luckily I know it’s coming so I give it an extra wipe beforehand

When my ds was about 3, he came into my room and said “mummy,smell my finger”
I smelled his finger and it stank of poo.he had put his finger up his bum before getting me to smell it.😷

When we were in our hotel room on holiday,I was bathing 2yo dd.i nipped out of the bathroom to get her clothes laid out ready.when I re-entered the bathroom,she was launching poo out of the bath.

We occasionally let our guinea pigs 'free' in our conservatory for a little run around in the winter. As you may know, they poo little droppings.....I'll say no more - it's lunchtime!

While my back was turned taking a bite out of my roll up, solid deodorant, I had to put my finger in my dd mouth and scoop it all out.

Licking the hose pipe. Yuk

Just the other day "we don't lick doorhandles"... honestly

Sitting happily on my unswept kitchen floor trying a toenail clipping. Not her own!!

My son is autistic, and like many autistics, he sniffs his food before eating it. Howeve, if he doesn't like the smell of whatever it is, it goes back. No matter who's house we are at, no matter when. Even if it's a sharing buffet! Double dipping? That's a godsend compared to having had something rammed up my sons nostrils!

I don't know why but once when on a bus, my daughter decided to put here hand down the gaps between the seats. Her hand came up full of someone else's chewing gum, urgh! I didn't even have a wet wipe that day so has to wipe it off with a pair of spare socks in my bag! Still makes me cringe, yuk!

My son did a wee in his toybox once, it was a plastic one so it had all pooled at the bottom and I didn't realise till I went to get something out and noticed the smell as my hand grabbed a wee soaked toy!

I've caught my daughter pick earwax out of her ear, inspect it and then taste it...I know she won't ever do it again though from the face she pulled lol

My DSD was too busy playing outside to come in and use the loo. We heard the other kids making noises and went outside to find DSD running round with a big poo clearly visible in her leggings :(

My LO loves nothing more than to pick his nose & eat his finds. It really is disgusting, but he tells me his bogies taste like sweets. He has offered me one, so at least he's up for sharing.
I did decline though.

Trying to drink water from a muddy puddle

I once found my little man aged 2 ,,,,,picking the general crap out of OH work boots tread & eating it.....kids are so disgusting really :( and the time when DD was leaning out of her window collecting the moss & dirty bird stuff from the gutter :(

Eating horse shit.

We'd gone camping and ds who was 3 at the time, and a notoriously fussy eater, was playing with some other kids in a field, me thinking "oh, how lovely, getting in touch with nature" etc.

Next thing I know he's found a pile of horse shit and starts shovelling it in his mouth like he's been starved for days.