Stuffed animals and fabric toys, harbor the most bacteria of anything in your house, and they are perfect places for scabies mites hide. When tested by researchers, 1 in 4 household stuffed animals, were shown to contain traces of fecal matter.
Most people don’t ever wash a stuffed animal, from the time that they bring it home from the store, to the time that it gets old enough to be thrown in the garbage. Add to this, that stuffed animals are constantly on the floor, carried around by kids, or outside in the dirt. Makes them accumulate bacteria and other microscopic bugs, very quickly.
You should gather up all of these toys and throw them in your washing machine, and set your machine to cold, because hot water can melt the glue used in some stuffies. If you have a very old and fragile stuffy that needs to be washed, you can tie it up in a pillow case, before putting it in the washing machine, to prevent it from getting damaged. Most stuffies can handle the normal wash cycle though.