Easy poll... water damage so keep something or throw out?

[american_mama]

I'm on the fence about this and curious about what others would do, any cautionary tales about saving it. Last week, a water pipe cracked in the basement and damaged a bunky board, which is like a boxspring for a mattress but only about 3 inches thick. You use it just like a boxspring with a mattress, but it keeps the bed lower to the ground so a toddler can more easily climb in and out. I was going to use it imminently, as in within weeks, for DS.

The water was clean tap water running through pipes. The damage was discovered within 10 minutes of it starting, and I moved the bunky board to a bathroom and propped it overnight to dry. Yesterday I planned to toss it but now it feels fine, although has some water staining. The bunky board is made of 2x4's covered with 2-4 layers of corrugated cardboard and wrapped in a kind of fabric (a cross between felt and that material used to make reusable grocery bags). There is no padding, no springs; it's largely a wooden frame with wooden crossbars covered in cardboard. I'd say about 1/4 to 1/3 of the bunky board got wet, mostly around the edges, and it felt like wet cardboard, not totally saturated but quite wet.

I believe it would cost about $40 to replace and, as I said, I will be needing it very soon. Neither storing it nor throwing it out is all that difficult. Our children do not have allergies, although DH does.

Keep or toss?

[DietCokeLover]

I would toss since you don't really know how wet it might have gotten inside. Better safe than sorry.

[mommylamb]

I think I'd toss it too. Just concerned about mold.