Help! I am freaking out!

lourdes

Well-known member

• Sep 23, 2014

• #1

This is how I found my DD when I got home after a 15 minutes drive, she was sucking on the strap that you pull to adjust the harness, the seat is 4 years old, this has never happened with the infant seat and she does the same thing, I am freaking out!

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Last edited: Oct 6, 2014

LISmama810

Admin - CPS Technician

• Sep 23, 2014

• #2

I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understand the problem. Are you saying the stuff around her mouth is from something that was on the strap?

 

lourdes

Well-known member

• Sep 23, 2014

• #3

LISmama810 said:

I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understand the problem. Are you saying the stuff around her mouth is from something that was on the strap?

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Yes

 

BookMama

Senior Community Member

• Sep 23, 2014

• #4

I can't imagine what that could be, but I'd wipe the strap down to clean it and then tuck the end of it under the edge of the car seat so she can't get it.

 

lourdes

Well-known member

• Sep 23, 2014

• #5

I did, and it keeps getting that Brown stove outs, but my concerns is what it is and if it is bad for her

 

BookMama

Senior Community Member

• Sep 23, 2014

• #6

lourdes said:

I did, and it keeps getting that Brown stove outs, but my concerns is what it is and if it is bad for her

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You better take the seat out and give it a good inspection, then.

 

lourdes

Well-known member

• Sep 23, 2014

• #7

I did but can't find anything wrong with it

 

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NVMBR02

New member

• Sep 23, 2014

• #8

Does anything come off the strap when you wipe it off?

I would tuck the strap inside the cover so that she can't get to it.

 

lourdes

Well-known member

• Sep 23, 2014

• #9

Yes, when I wipe it something brown comes off, it kooks like mud, this seat wasn't mine, it was the seat if a close friend, I know that she was never in a accident and that she never wash the seat, that's why I took it,
Can it be mud? A 4 y/o was using it before I got it

 

thepote

New member

• Sep 23, 2014

• #10

Is it blood maybe? I've had teething kids gnaw on things and get bloody like that.

 

lourdes

Well-known member

• Sep 23, 2014

• #11

thepote said:

Is it blood maybe? I've had teething kids gnaw on things and get bloody like that.

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I checked her mouth and didn't see anything bloody, ones I gave her a bath she didn't have anymore of that...

 

_juune

New member

• Sep 23, 2014

• #12

I'd freak, too
Could it be that the strap has been gnawed on before by a chocolate-y little mouth? Or maybe something like coke has been spilled on it? :shrug-shoulders:
What does the substance smell like?

 

lourdes

Well-known member

• Sep 23, 2014

• #13

_juune said:

I'd freak, too
Could it be that the strap has been gnawed on before by a chocolate-y little mouth? Or maybe something like coke has been spilled on it? :shrug-shoulders:
What does the substance smell like?

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It doesn't smell, it looks like car oil but it's water like, I talk to my friend and she said that they don't drink coke... can it be mud?

 

lourdes

Well-known member

• Sep 23, 2014

• #14

She has nurse 2 times after that, she is acting normal

 

sb518

New member

• Sep 24, 2014

• #15

It's got to be chocolate or something on the strap. Any chemicals on it would be likely be clear in color, and anything like dye from a black strap would come off as bluish. It honestly looks like crayola washable marker to me. Bet it got colored on.

 

happiness-and-balance

New member

• Sep 24, 2014

• #16

I agree with shutterbug, it's probably marker. Or chocolate.

 

lourdes

Well-known member

• Sep 24, 2014

• #17

Shutterbug518 said:

It's got to be chocolate or something on the strap. Any chemicals on it would be likely be clear in color, and anything like dye from a black strap would come off as bluish. It honestly looks like crayola washable marker to me. Bet it got colored on.

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I got it to the sink today, rinsed it with water, everything came off, and it looked like coke or like you said brown marker, it doesn't looked like chocolate, I wiped the harness and they didn't have anything.

 

Keeanh

Well-known member

• Sep 25, 2014

• #18

Yeah, I agree with Shutterbug. Looks like marker. Ask your friend if her child used washable markers in the car.

 

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henrietta

Well-known member

• Sep 25, 2014

• #19

If it's not sticky, I'm also voting marker!

And just b/c she doesn't allow Coke's in the car, doesn't mean it isn't coke. LOL Could have been spilled some other time. But coke (any soda or sweet tea or juice) would be really, really sticky!

 

lourdes

Well-known member

• Sep 26, 2014

• #20

henrietta said:

If it's not sticky, I'm also voting marker!

And just b/c she doesn't allow Coke's in the car, doesn't mean it isn't coke. LOL Could have been spilled some other time. But coke (any soda or sweet tea or juice) would be really, really sticky!

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I think i am voting for marker too, it was not sticky