Is it safe for my husband to clean our daughters pacifier with his mouth if it falls on the ground?

My Hubby thinks the germs will go into his mouth and that it is safe to put it back into our daughters mouth. However we are dealing with thrush in my daughters mouth and trying to get rid of it. I have been giving her her mediciene Nystatin and I am sanitizing all pacifiers and bottles ect. I would think that my hubby is just transferring germs from his mouth back into our daughters mouth.Is it safe for my husband to clean our daughters pacifier with his mouth if it falls on the ground?
Just wipe it off on your shirt, his mouth is dirtier than anything on the ground. Your husband is an idiot and you should feel bad for allowing those genes to pass on to your children.Is it safe for my husband to clean our daughters pacifier with his mouth if it falls on the ground?
It is actually worse for him to put it in his mouth first. Human mouths have so many germs. When the soother lands on the ground it is picking up a few germs on the sides that touch the ground...when your husband puts it in his mouth he is completely covering the soother with germs. Not to mention that he is getting the germs of thrush from your daughter.





I would suggest using wipes from your diaperbag or even better...a soft antibacterial wipe. If you want her thrush gone you need to keep her soother away from any germs including other peoples mouths. You should probably be washing the soother in hot soapy water a few times a day too so that she is not having the thrush bacteria constantly in her mouth.





Good luck and hope the thrush clears up soon!
Noooo! We carry more germs in our mouths than in our pee, honestly! Your hubby would be better off peeing on it than sucking it (not suggesting he do this, but its a good way of pointing out just how much bacteria we have in our mouths). The best thing you can do is have a supply of sterilised dummies so that if one goes on the floor you have a clean one ready.


Not only that but your hubby is likely to catch thrush off your baby, then he might pass it to you, then to baby and round and round it goes!
normally, I'd say its fine. my son doesn't get sick and I do that all the time. but considering you're trying to cure a sick child, then it is a bad idea, and you should discourage him from doing so while you're daughter is sick.





over-sanitizing everything for your child is not safe. they will become more prone to coming down with something. we're humans and unless your child is sick in a hospital and kept in a clean room environment, there's nothing wrong with coming in contact with everyday germs, that have been here as long as we have, and anything he transfers to his daughter is the same germs he transfers to you every time you kiss!!
Gross for a number of reasons. He's not removing germs from the pacifier, he's adding to them. My child had thrush when he was little also. Does your husband want to get thrush? The mother and child should both take medication when thrush is present. Always carry a back-up pacifier so when one falls on the ground you have a clean one. If they both fall on the ground then at least rinse them off in the sink. Your husband has other types of germs in his mouth he could pass to your child! Silly men!
I saw a study done on women who did this when they were out and about and the result was that what was in the mom's mouth ( bacteria that adult have naturally in their teeth) in most cases is worse that what was found on the pacifier when it was dropped.





Sometimes when you are out, there aren't a lot of choices. I think the best thing is to keep some ';Wet Ones'; hand wipes and a plastic bottle of water to rinse it afterwords in your diaper bag.





Good luck! Congrats on the little one :)
my moms family is all old school southern and they would do all kinds of things like that to us when we were babies such as chew up tootsie rolls and put them in our mouths and clean the pacifiers with their mouths all that kind of stuff.. we all turned out fine! when i worked at a day care the kids who usually had thrush the most or were sick the most were kids whose parents were constantly disinfecting things and bleaching things. the disinfectant and bleach can kill the good bacteria in the babies mouth thus causing thrush. kind of like when an adult takes antibiotics and sometimes can get a yeast infection from it. the good bacteria is removed so the yeast takes over. im not a doctor though thats just from personal observations. :)
ha ha...this made me chuckle...my husband would do the same thing when our son was first born..I had to pull out all my baby books and then ended up calling my pedi and asking her to make a point of bringing up the important of actually cleaning things correctly at our next doctor appointment...for some reason she got through to him when I couldn't. To answer your question...nope...I don't think your husbands cleaning method is the right way to clean things ;) Best of luck.
We do that when our baby's pacifier falls on the ground. But we aren't dealing with thrush. He should rinse it rather than put it in his mouth until thrush is gone. They will pass it back and forth. It's a yeast infection and works the same way.
Nooo! Its going to be very worseee!!!


Your husband have more germs than the baby do.


If your at home wash it with soap and water.


If you not use babywipes.


But, I pefer both anywhere!
working in dentistry i can tell you that it is not recommended as the human mouth contains more bacteria than a toilet seat.
yuk yuk yuk
And he's transferring her thrush germs into his.
No, it's not safe. Human mouths are full of germs. Carry baby wipes with you.
Gross. How is that even remotely sanitary?
That is disgusting.
No it isn't. Please don't let him do that. It needs to be washed at home in the sink with mild soap.
ew. um not good, the germs from his mouth will go into your daughters
Not an acceptable form of disinfecting. Some men...my goodness.
NO! NO! NO!