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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Licked the cat. i'd like to think the cats clean.

Ds sat in the bath weeing in Iggle Piggle's head. (bubble bath bottle)

Eating a worm he found in the garden

Not once but twice I found my boy eating his own excrement !!!

Say no more !
The first time I called my own mother, the second time I didn't say anything in case people would point their finger at me ...

We went on a day out to london. Took our LB on a bus as he loves them and he tried to eat the chewing gum he'd picked off the seat 😷😷😷

The most disgusting thing i found my son doin was making sand castles in the xats litter tray 🤮

My children used to eat mud directly from the garden. never really bothered me, they have grown out of ( eventually ). my son also stole food from the dog bowl whenever he got a chance and ate dog sweets

I had to take my 2 year old daughter to A&E a few weeks ago and while we were waiting (for four hours) I had to keep stopping her licking and biting the waiting room chairs eugh!

My daughter (3 at the time) for one Christmas had a toy kitchen complete with sink, oven etc... which she played for quite a while in the kitchen (copying what I was doing)... even put some soapy water in the sink so she could 'wash her pots'... as kids do... usage filtered out so the kitchen got moved upstairs to her bedroom when she was around 4...
a few weeks later I clocked her trying to take water upstairs, to which I said no water upstairs... and thought nothing of it...

A little after that... there was a funny smell going on... couldn't pin point it immediately just that it was funky smelling in her room...
Tracked it down to liquid in the sink... yep you guessed it... she'd PEE'D in it somehow..!!

Pouring a whole bottle of bubble bath down the toilet and flushing it. It made a massive bubbly volcano!

I have a two year old and a new baby. This time of year the two year old has a near-constant stream of green snot from both nostrils which he happily snacks on by licking at it with his tongue.

But that's not the gross bit. I noticed he'd gone a bit quiet in the company of the baby the other day, so rushed back into the room... to find he'd been carefully smearing his nose all over his baby sister's head. He was mid-smear and she looked like she'd been slimed; glistening with snot all over her face and fuzzy baby head!

We had the worst poo explosion with DD 11mo a few weeks back. Had to stand her in the sink in the baby changing area. It was up the wall by the time we were done. Luckily I had Milton wipes on me to clean up!

She is also obsessed with the toilet, wants her hands in it as often as she can make a run if we open the bathroom door. If you use the loo with her in the room, which is obviously unavoidable at times, she will try and get in the bowl through your legs!

Had to use a saucepan for toilet, when she broke her leg, and claimed she couldnt even manage to get herself to the toilet

I found my then one year old chewing the toilet brush, having turned around for all of ten seconds!!

My son picked up a poo and asked me what it was. I had just ran out of wipes too.

There are probably many disgusting things which I have forgotten. Caught my son stomping in dog poo on purpose the other day. That was fun to clean.

Ds 3 was a nightmare around the cat litter tray when he was younger every opportunity he got he was try to eat the poop from it.

We've a pond in our back garden. DD2 thought she could take a drink from it. Also caught her drinking from the dog's bowl when she was around 18 months.

My baby ate her poo

My son went through an awful stage of pooing on the patio in the garden and hiding under large stones or ornaments !! blughh

My stepson - only a couple of years ago, he would have been about 14/15, was sat in the living room with us, we were all just chatting away, and he was absent-mindedly picking at the chapped skin on his feet (he had althlete's foot), putting it in his mouth and having a chew.

I'll never get that sight out of my mind - bleugh.

Drinking the wee out of his brother’s potty, lapping up the water from the dog’s bowl. Drinking out of the puddles on the ground when we were out. He has a great immune system!

Wiping bogeys on the side of his bed, he'd built up quite a collection! 😬

I caught my son who was 3 at the time with his hand in the jar which contained my dads ashes, god knows how he managed to get the lid off.. but I lost about one tenth of dad to the hoover.