Sterilization of baby bottles and dishes

If the newborn is fed from a bottle, the mother wonders how to sterilize the dishes used to feed the little ones. Let's understand why bottle sterilization is important, how to handle it properly and when it is already possible not to sterilize baby dishes?

Due to the large susceptibility of the child's body to various infections (in particular, to pathogens of intestinal infections), parents should be more careful to ensure that all the utensils for feeding the baby are clean, because the bacteria in milk develop very actively.

The child should receive food only from clean dishes, but periodic sterilization of bottles and other items is recommended to hold up to a year. By this time, the baby’s immunity will be so strong that the child will be able to resist the microbes that enter his body from the surface of children's dishes.

At the same time, there are opinions of pediatricians that babies older than 6 months do not need to sterilize dishes, but there are also doctors who adhere to the fact that the ability of the immune system to withstand a pathogen is formed only by 1.5 years. The sterilization frequency is reduced over time and reduced to zero by 1.5 years.

Warm mixture or milk is not recommended to be stored in dishes longer than an hour.

In processing need all the items that can get into the mouth of a newborn. First of all, it is:

• Feeding accessories. These include bottles, their caps, nipples, breast pump.
• Dummy. It is important to have several sterilized nipples ready to give the little one a clean accessory instead of spit it out on the floor.
• Dental rings and rodents.
• Toys that tolerate boiling.

For the sterilization of children's dishes use:

1. Boiling.
2. Steam treatment.
3. Special sterilizer.
4. Processing in the microwave.
5. Processing in the multicooker (on the "steam" mode).
6. Treatment with a special sterilizing solution.

The most affordable and simple option to sterilize the bottle - boiling. The dishes are placed in a pot of water and brought to a boil, then kept in boiling water for 3-10 minutes. Next, items need to decompose on a clean napkin so that they dry out and cool. The disadvantage of such sterilization is the risk of spoiling the details of plastic and rubber bottles.

Steam sterilization is as reliable as boiling, but is considered a more gentle method for bottles. The dishes can be held above the steam that rises above the saucepan of boiling water or the spout of the kettle, or use a steamer.

In special sterilizers for children's dishes are also used steaming. Water is poured into the device and bottles are placed (from 4 to 8 immediately), covered with a lid, and after 10-12 minutes they take out with clean hands.

In the microwave oven, the dishes for the child are also sterilized in a special device (sterilizer) or in clean glass dishes in which water is poured and the bottles are immersed. This method of processing is not used for children's dishes, which has metal parts.

There are also special pills or powders for disinfecting bottles that need to be diluted in water. In the prepared solution is placed well-washed dishes and remove it after half an hour. Although this treatment is considered safe for the child, in most cases mothers resort to it only in cases when steam treatment or boiling is not available (for example, on a trip).

Komarovsky supports the opinion of scientists that the sterilization of children's dishes is one of the factors provoking allergic reactions. The well-known doctor is sure that sterility is important only when in contact with blood and for people with immunity problems, and only dishes are needed for dishes from which young children are fed. It is enough to wash the nipples and bottles in running water (large quantities), carefully cleaning them from detergents. Sterilize Komarovsky recommends only dishes that store breast milk or formula.