Sterilization children's tableware: the use of the procedure, various methods and devices for processing

Faced with the need to transfer the child on artificial feeding, not all moms are ready for it and do not even really imagine how to sterilize baby bottles.

According to pediatricians, this procedure is mandatory should be carried out with all the things that are used for feeding a small child. But, as has been said, not every mother knows how and until what age it should be done.

Meaning sterilizing baby bottles

Feeding children who are bottle-fed, parents use a special blend of baby bottles. Moms and dads are well aware that in this age, the child's immune system yet formed, and any interference in the body can lead to serious health consequences.

It is for this reason, domestic pediatricians strongly recommend parents regularly to sterilize items that anyway are used for feeding children.

The same applies to the nipples and pacifiers, used by a child in the early years of his life. They should also be cleaned regularly, so that through them into the body baby not entered a dangerous infection.

But not all experts from abroad shared the views of Russian pediatricians. It appears that European doctors are advised not to sterilize bottles and pacifiers to newborns. It is believed that the first years of life the child should take place in vivo. So it can quickly strengthen your health, than if he had from the first months of his birth became accustomed to sterility. To whom can you believe?

final decision You should take the parents themselvesWho will independently find the right tactics and observe it strictly while feeding the baby.

Information about the sterilization of utensils especially for newborns in the home will also be useful for women who feed their babies breast milk. There are situations where young mothers need time to get away from home, and then they are temporarily entrusted their obligations to Feeding baby daddy or grandma, which can only be prepared in advance washed bottles and fill them milk. But, unfortunately, not all parents know how to prepare the dishes, intended for feeding the baby.

Preparations for disinfection

Before you begin this procedure, you must thoroughly wash all children's dishes. This is especially true of bottles that should wash to the bottom, removing from them all the food without residue.

The easiest way to do this, if used for cleaning utensils baking soda or a special cleaning agent.

For complete removal of milk residues or mixtures better use YorshikWhich you can get to the bottom of the children's feeding bottles. Teats clean apart from the dishes, so before the bottle sterilization procedures they definitely need to be removed.

For the washing of children's dishes can be use the dishwasher. And baby bottles are loaded separately from cups and plates used by family members. To be sure of the purity of children's dishes, to wash it is necessary to use special soft detergents.

Four heat treatment step

In most bottles for infant formula are sterilized using boiling water. This method, experts advise to use to disinfect baby bottles and pacifiers from birth until the age of one and a half years. Learn how to sterilize the dishes in a similar way can any young mother:

• To do this, dip in the prepared container with boiling water bottle after removing them from the nipples.
• Boil the dishes must be not less than 5 minutes.
• After the procedure items pulled from the pan with water, and spread on a clean, dry towel.
• Chilled baby dishes can be used further for feeding the baby.

Disinfection and cleaning in the microwave

Although boiling is the easiest way to sterilize children's dishes, it does not mean that only they can be disinfected bottles. The alternative could be another safe and effective way disinfecting utensils - microwave.

By experience we can say that the disinfecting effect can be achieved if the bottle sterilized in the microwave at least 5 minutes. This time is sufficient for killing all bacteria and dishes became perfectly clean:

• for sterilization to take a pot of water, put the pacifier and bottle, and then tightly close the lid;
• before sterilization of baby bottles in the microwave to remove them previously nipples.

By understanding how to sterilize baby bottles in the microwave, many parents were able to appreciate the convenience of this method. That is why the microwave is most often used for the disinfection of children's dishes. Today, in the range of many companies can be found bottles, which are already prepared to conduct such a procedure that eliminates the need to immerse the children's dishes in a pan of water. Only need place the bottle in the microwave and click "Start." Children's dishes without any problems can withstand sterilization procedures, while maintaining its original shape and properties.

Electric steam sterilizer

When young parents are faced with the need to sterilize bottles for infants, they are trying to simplify it, and it is to this end buy "smart" technology.

One such device is a steam sterilizer, which not only saves time, but also It provides effective cleaning baby bottles and pacifiers from food residues.

With it the parents no longer have to boil the water and worry about whether there will be surprises with dishes, when it is exposed to high temperatures:

1. disinfection procedure takes place plastic dishes in a special apparatus.
2. As part of its preparation for the water poured into the sterilizer and put the desired mode.
3. Such sterilization takes about 10 minutes.

Steam sterilizer like many parents, not only because of the ease of use, but also easy to use. For one procedure you can use it to handle up to 6 items. When the sterilization process is completed, it is placed in a children's dishes can be left under the cover. Bottles and teats maintain sterility within 6 hours after turning off the machine.

antiseptic tablets 

Another method by which to disinfect baby dishes, involves the use of antiseptic tablets in cold water.

To master this technique quite easily. For this preparation, is dissolved in a water tankAnd then to put the children's dishes from the nipples removed.

Sterilization is carried out in a similar way 30 minutes with the lid closed. The prepared solution can be used during the day. During this time period, antiseptic pills do not lose their original properties and actively fight bacteria. When sterilization is completed, there will be only to wash the dishes clean boiled water.

Not all parents can say exactly to what age it is necessary to carry out the sterilization of children's dishes. Pediatricians in this respect expressed different opinions. According to some, it should be done before the age of 5-6 months. But there are also those who claim that the sterilization of utensils child can be carried out until the moment when he turns eighteen months. In practice, often it turns out that parents continue to sterilize the dishes to children until their child enjoys bottles and dummies.

Baby bottles intended for feeding an artificial mixture of children are source of infection dangerous bacteria. But this can be avoided by regularly and correctly disinfection procedure children's dishes.

Actually ways ware handling and cleaning it from the remnants of food there is not much, and some of them are quite simple, which can be learned even in the home.