Umm, what's the best way to clean a liquid substance from a keyboard?

What's the liquid substance?

• Water and other drinks without sugar or syrups are fine. Just turn the keyboard over and let it drain for about 24 hours.
• sticky drinks - throw it away.

Basic keyboards run about $8. I'd ship you one of my many spares, but it would probably cost less to buy one than for shipping. If you have or want one of them fancy ones, do what I do - outlaw drinks anywhere near the keyboard.

Oh - if it's a laptop, then you'll have to open it up and clean it out. My wife did that with one many years ago, and it worked fine after 24 hours to dry.

Umm, the substance was breast milk. The computer armoire is the only place in the living room where we can attach the syringe to do Phillip's NG feeds.

yeah- hang it up and let everything dry out. It should be ok.

Funny story -
I had a guy call the help desk I worked at because "something" was wrong with his laptop. He wouldn't say wut because he had to run to a "meeting".
Anyhoo - I dispatch a tech and the tech calls me and says, "dude! the laptop keyboard is one big piece of plastic. He melted it togather".

Story goes:
Executive was at a hotel getting ready for a client meeting. He spilled some coffe on his laptop just before leaving...so....he "dipped" the laptop in a tub of water to "rinse" the coffe off. THEN to dry it - the gneius setup the hotel blow dryer-pointing it at the keyboard and left it running for 3 hrs while at this meeting.

Yeah....genius.

My experience (Kerense nursed both our kids) tells me that it may be ok. I'm assuming (as it's been about 22 hours) that the keyboard is now dry. Give it a shot. It will not damage the computer, worst that'll happen is the keyboard will fry. And you'll be right where you were if it were soda or capuccino.

If this is going to be a routine thing (and it sounds like it will) you may want to invest in a keyboard cover.