{"id":635832,"date":"2026-04-28T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635832\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T08:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:15:14","slug":"perth-mum-shares-horror-discovery-inside-daughters-electric-toothbrush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635832\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth mum shares horror discovery inside daughter\u2019s electric toothbrush"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Perth mum has issued a stark warning to Aussies after uncovering a \u201chorror\u201d sight inside a household item used daily.<\/p>\n

Liesl, who works as a professional cleaner in Perth\u2019s south, said a teeth-cleaning session with her six-year-old daughter on Monday evening quickly turned sour when she discovered a \u201cweird brown substance\u201d seeping from the toothbrush.<\/p>\n

\u201cI noticed the brown was also inside the crevice, so I started picking at it with a toothpick,\u201d Liesl told PerthNow about the discovery.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The substance) just kept coming and coming, just more and more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deciding the brush was no longer safe for her child, the Perth cleaner curiously took a hammer to the tool \u2014 and what she found inside the commonly used product left her \u201cabsolutely disgusted\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOH MY GOD \ud83e\udd22 It was absolutely stuffed with mould and GUNK,\u201d she shared in a post to her 5200 Instagram followers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe head is no more than a month old, yet my 6 year old\u2019s brush has ended up packed with mould which she has been putting in her mouth.<\/p>\n

\u201cTake this as a warning: check your electric toothbrush.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her post about the vile discovery was flooded with comments from fellow Aussies complaining that they had also experienced similar mould build-up inside their Oral B electric toothbrushes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI notice my kids ones get like this within a month too! So gross,\u201d one mum commented.<\/p>\n

Another Perth mum wrote: \u201cThat\u2019s exactly why I stopped using the Oral B toothbrush \u2014 all of the heads have that!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI changed my kids from the Oral B ones for this reason, (it) happened multiple times no matter how much they were rinsed and cleaned after use,\u201d a third parent chimed in.<\/p>\n

\"ACamera IconA phoo of the brown gunk found inside Liesl\u2019s daughter\u2019s toothbrush. Credit: @cleanfreakcleaningco<\/p>\n

Liesl told PerthNow that she believes a design flaw with the Oral B electric brushes allows bacteria and mould to invade the tool easier than other toothbrushes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been rinsing it and maintaining it but it\u2019s the design that\u2019s the issue, in my opinion, because there are holes in the front and the back of the brush,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe holes are obviously where the moisture is getting in and no amount of shaking is going to get it back out due to the design.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people commented on my post to say they made the switch because of this design flaw, we\u2019re back to using the regular manual toothbrushes for now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AnotherCamera IconAnother image showing how deep the mystery substance has gone inside the brush. Credit: @cleanfreakcleaningco<\/p>\n

Liesl told PerthNow that she made the choice to share the post publicly to raise awareness among other parents about the dangers of electric toothbrushes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t have a clue (this could happen) unless I had a look and noticed the brown in the toothbrush holes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people aren\u2019t that aware or vigilant and I would just hate for them to miss that and allow their kids to be using a toothbrush that could have mould inside.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s just too dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

PerthNow has contacted Oral B owners P&G for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Perth mum has issued a stark warning to Aussies after uncovering a \u201chorror\u201d sight inside a household…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,1625,46,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-635832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-lifestyle","12":"tag-perth","13":"tag-wa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}