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Sterlizing Bottles
Added: 1128 days ago.
Added by: alreadygot1
Section: General.
Status: This question is Closed. (Questions will be closed after 10 days.)


Do you have to boil bottles before you use them or can you just run them through the dishwasher? What is the difference?

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Debra - 1128 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) New bottles I would boil. That also makes sure it gets all the manufacturing junk out.

Debra - 1128 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) There are also steam bags available for cleaning equipment (medela). I think its recommended to sterilize your bottles if you have a preemie or newborn. Once your baby starts, sucking on its fingers, licking dirt and crawling, it doesn't matter anymore and a wash through the dishwasher or hand wash to make sure its clean will suffice. The bowel system is not sterile- only when the baby is in the womb. Once you start feeding a child after birth, their bowel system is no longer sterile and the immune system needs to start handling some normal flora to promote their general health.

amber325 - 1128 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) I sterilize them when I first buy them. Then rinse them out well and dishwasher them 1 time a week. Breast milk I pump is in bottles..formula I supplement with is in platex drop in bottles...so no cleaning those = great!

lizzie287 - 1128 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) Initially I boiled them to make sure the really foreign stuff was off, and after that I used the sterilize setting on the dishwasher.

rachel86 - 1128 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) I sterilze my babies bottle after each use until they are 1.

jq baby - 1128 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) I will be boiling once a week-- my mothers kind of old school and you will KNOW they are sterile

STCT - 1128 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) I put mine in the dishwasher.

STCT - 1128 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) I put mine in the dishwasher. It has a setting to sterilise.

dawnispregz - 1128 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) you should sterilise them, a dishwasher has detergent in it, n also i would have thought temp is higher when boiling or microwave steriliser