Milk bottles and accessories are some important thing to the little one if he/she is like to having milk via bottles.
The milk bottle will accumulate mold or stains easily if just wash and leave it there without drying. Thus, to sterilize the milk bottle and the accessories is a MUST step during the preparation of the clean milk bottle to the little one.
How to sterilize the milk bottles? There are few convenient ways can kill almost 99% of the germs, bacteria and virus. You may adopt either one which is you feel is the most convenient to you.
The first step is wash your hands with soap and warm water, you must make sure your hands are clean before proceeding with the milk bottle sterilization process.
Second, wash the milk bottle and clean it to make sure there is no more food or milk residues.
1. Sterilize with boiling water
This is the most traditional way and simplest way which is adopted by the mummy around the world since last century.
All you need is a pot with lid, make sure the pot is big enough for putting your milk bottles in. Put all the milk bottles and accessories into the pot and fill up with enough water. Adjust to high heat in order to boil the water. After the water boiled, continue boiling for another 5 minutes.
Off the heat, take out all the bottles with a forcep and put on the rack for drying.
Don’t do this with the glass bottle, the boiling water might make the glass bottle cracked.
2. Steaming sterilization
There is steamer in most of the modern family nowadays, you may steam the little one’s milk bottle for sterilization purpose.
Put some water at the bottom layer, and put the milk bottle at the steaming layer instead of food.
Steam for 5 minutes for sterilization. Once done, take them out with a forcep and put on the rack for drying.
If you don’t have a proper food steamer at home, you still can do it with a steamer that fit a pot size. Again, put some water in the pot, on high heat for steaming for 5 minutes.
And, you may do it via the microwave oven too, but have to make sure you follow the instruction guideline strictly to avoid any accident.
3. Chemical chips.
Some drug stores and pharmacies do sell the chemical chips for killing the bacteria or germ of the utensils including the milk bottles.
Dissolve the chip in the water, soak the milk bottle in the dissolved water for an hour. After sterilization, take out the bottles with a forcep. No need to wash the bottles because the manufacturers told, the chemical residua are safe to be edible.
4. Bottle dryer and sterilizer.
This is newly invented machine which cater the modern mummies’ need. Get an electrical bottle dryer and sterilizer. Putting the bottles into the sterilizer after cleaning them, the UV lights will help to kill all the germs and bacteria.
Another important feature of this kind of sterilizer is it can help to dry the bottle at the same time, so the bottle is ready to be used once the sterilization process is completed.
Again, all the ways are workable, just how’s your life style and budget when come towards to the sterilization issue.
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we are talking about babies not only kids, so until today the best way to clena the babies feedng tools are by sterleizing them by steam, its the safest way after its been washe dwith soup and water, other ways such as detergent will in most cases leat to allergy among these kido and for sure between those of new born from age zero to 5 months as they are sill getting adapt to the new life and earth and lots of things, so do the steam claning after cleaning them from foods