Your car seat can be dirtier than a toilet, how to clean it, so that here

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We rubbed, clean and disinfect us almost everything that relates to children these days, but we can only fail in a discrete guilty Country: car seats.

According to a recent study by the manufacturer of the car seat performed Maxi-Cosi , the parents surveyed 506 a year more than half wash your car for up to a few times. Allow 85 percent of these parents to their children, eat everything in short, does not seem surprising that 36 percent of them three or more different food groups in tiny cracks of their seats crammed to find. (Trivia: fish-shaped cookies are the most common snack in the car seat, according to the survey.)

If you are still not convinced that the car seat is worth your precious washing power, know this: Scientists at the University of Birmingham took an average of 100 potentially harmful bacteria and fungi in each seat centimeters car space proved to take place last July. This is found twice the germs on toilet seats. *

Fortunately, reported HuffPost parents the help of Becky Rapinchuk, "the expert Homekeeping" meticulously behind Clean Mama explain how to avoid that our courts are converted large in Petri dishes.

"Car seats are really cleaning only when necessary - usually a run or sick in the car - so try to find a way to get it apart and it can be confusing properly find clean," she said. "With all the holes, loops and attachments, is almost impossible to make the cover removed, let alone figure out how to get back together."

Rapinchuk, he often said how clean a car seat wondering, so you know the drill. His first advice is to the manufacturer's recommendations before cleaning and make sure that you do not need your car seat from the 12 to 24 hours to use (if you are to fully dry time) to read.

Then follow the instructions Rapinchuk:

1 Remove the seat of the car.

2 Take a picture of it with your phone so you can see where all vary the straps and accessories. This makes it easier to back together once it is clean.

3 cracks aspirate car seat.

4 Remove the lid shape car seat.

5 Place the lid of the washing machine on "cold" and "soft" with a mild detergent - no fabric softener.

6 After washing, place the lid on a chair to dry or dryer in the air before you allow completely in a car seat.

7 Show your photo, that will help everything together.

That's it! You have more tips for cleaning car seats? Share in the comments.

Is * Interestingly, researchers have found that some germ-free is really good for kids, a theory known as the "known hygiene hypothesis ".

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