Should I sterilize baby bottles?

Should I sterilize baby bottles Asked by kimber7114 59 months ago Similar questions: sterilize baby bottles Family.

Sterilizing is a good idea, but when you are sleep deprived and running on empty, I don't think it is awful to skip When my daughter was born, I sterilized everything in boiling water on the stove. However, after a few weeks with no sleep, I switched to just sending everything through the dishwasher. If you get one of those baskets that fit in the dishwsher, it is so easy.

Of course, the diswasher will break down the nipples a bit faster, but they still last a good while. And for me, the cost of replacing nipples was worth the lesser effort.

It's probably not necessary if you are receiving city-treated water. The short answer to your question is you can stop now. It is not necessary to sterilize bottles, nipples, or formula.To understand recommendations on whether to sterilize or not, it is important to realize the history of why sterilization was necessary in the past.

In the 17th and 18th century there was a very high mortality rate for infants fed cow's milk. When pasteurization became available, technology allowed for sterile condensed milk to be used for infant feeding. However, during this time, the public water supplies remained largely unmonitored and formula was usually made in batches and left unrefrigerated, Thus, bacterial contamination tended to be a problem.

Therefore, it became commonplace to sterilize the water, bottles and nipples. However, by the 1950s, city water supplies became much better monitored and free of bacterial contamination. Studies were done back in the 1950s, which showed that babies could be safely fed formula made with clean (not sterile) bottles/nipples and tap water.

However, by then, sterilization was so commonplace that it was difficult for doctors to stop recommending the practice to their patients, and it was also difficult for grandmothers to stop recommending it to their daughters. In summary, formula prepared with city-treated tap water in the U.S. is as safe as sterilized formula. United States water from wells, cisterns or other sources should probably be sterilized by boiling for at least 10 minutes, plus one additional minute for every 1,000 feet of your city's elevation.

Dishwasher after each use and once a week sterilizing works for me My mother-in-law was telling me about having to sterilize everything when my husband was a baby. This was before dishwashers, plastic bottles and good clean tap water. My thinking is that the dishwasher gets the bottles pretty clean and if I sterilize them once a week that should take care of anything the dishwasher didn’t get.

Sometimes I only sterilize the nipples. My son is 16 weeks old and healthy. I also think that if his environment is too clean, his immune system won’t be very strong when he gets out to play.Do what you are comfortable with, pay attention to your baby and to share the best advice I have heard so far: "do it with love".

In general, yes. Sterilization is a good idea, though the need for it is somewhat mitigated if you use a dishwasher and/or antibacterial dish soap. We avoided most of the need for it by using bottles with disposable liners, and washing the rings and nipples with antibacterial dish liquid.

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WebMD is the best resource for medical info on the Web - they say no. Should You Sterilize Your Baby's Bottles? By Steven Parker, MDWebMD Medical Reference Reviewed By Cynthia Haines, MDon Thursday, March 09, 2006In the old days when water supplies were not reliably clean, it made sense to boil the water before use.

But now, sterilizing bottles, nipples, and water is mostly unnecessary. Unless your water supply is suspected to harbor contaminated bacteria, it is as safe for your baby as it is for you. There is no reason to sterilize what is already safe.

Sterilizing the bottles and nipples is also unwarranted. Thorough cleaning with soap and water gets rid of almost all germs. And once on the bottle, the nipple begins to pick up all the germs in the environment, so a "sterile" nipple and bottle is just a pipe dream anyway.

Sources: webmd.com/content/article/119/113475.htm .

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I am looking for a machine that will wash baby bottles and disinfect them.

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