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Fleece and EC

iggy

New Kit
Hi everyone, I have 2 lovely healthy house rabbits, i would like to give them a soft bed/ fleece and so would wash this in the washing machine. However if they
did have EC and they had wee'd on the fleece would the EC then stay in the washing machine after the wash, as fleece can't be washed higher than 40 degrees.

Hope that made sense.:wave:
 
The risk would be minimal.

1 The Rabbits are not showing any clinical symptoms.

2 Shedding of EC spores (*if* the Rabbit has been exposed to the parasite) does not happen continuously in every urination.

2 The Detergent used in the washing machine may be active against EC spores

3 As an extra precaution you could run an empty 90c cycle using a washing machine cleaning product after washing fleeces.
 
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