Milton sterilising fluid - anyone had any issues?

confusedmummy

Have been using Milton sterilising fluid to sterilise some of my baby's teats, bottles, dummy etc. Anyway, he has been really acting up of late and acts like he has bad colic - screaming in pain and hunching over. I have been using infacol and dentinox and although the later seems to work to some extent, something seems to be really bothering my baby. We are starting to think it might be the Milton sterilising fluid as it makes the bottles absolutely reek of chemicals and my hands, for the first time in my life, are incredibly dry, sore and cracked, as are my husbands.

Has anyone else had an issue with sterilising fluid such as allergies or little ones reacting badly? We are trying to work out if this could be affecting him or if it is just colic/gas or something else.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

No issues with Milton - if you're making it up too strong, just rinse with cool boiled water, but as it can be used to make water safe to drink in survival situations, I doubt it's the sterilising fluid. You do need to rinse your hands once you've got the things out of the bucket, or use hand cream/sudocrem as your hands are going in and out of dilute bleach, essentially.

Babe could be gulping more air than before - sometimes you need to change the way you wind them - or there is a particular food or formula that disagrees with him/causing wind/constipation.

Maybe a visit to the GP to eliminate illness and then to the health visitor is in order here?

danielle1977

can you try a fifferent method of streilising them and see if that helps. I had the thing you stuck in the microwave and never had any problems with that, I think it was about £20 (I liked the thought of paying once, not having to remeber to buy stuff).

delain

I've never liked the idea of bottles in strong chemicals and always used a steam one like this although I use wide neck bottles and have the tommee tippee closer to nature ones now (they weren't out when I had my others!) and Squeak hasn't been colicy.

ETA The stuff is often on offer in ASDA and tesco, never paid full price for any of it

LadyMariannaKL

The cheaper way to try a different sterilisation meathod is to try boiling them in a large pan of water. Completely submerge bottles and teats and boil for 10 minutes.

You do have to check your bottles are suitable for boiling first. Also the life expectancy of teats are less with boiling than with other meathods.

It is a quick way to determine if it is the milton that is causing the problems.

Like others I am inclined to think it is colic rather than milton.

Supermom

Milton has been around for years and is PERFECTLY SAFE, in fact in tests is the safest way to sterilise a baby's bottles.

You haven't said if you express? in which case maybe it's something your eating?
If not could it be the formula your using?

Or have you recently started introducing solids?

You don't say how old your baby if he's under 3 months he could just have colic in which case it's grin and bear it he will out grow it.
Could it be he's teething?

daveyjp

Switch to a microwave steriliser and see if it makes a difference. It will certainly stop you getting cracked hands

LadyMariannaKL

Or just rinse the bottles with cooled, boiled water.

delain

If he's on formula, try a different one. We put Squeak on this one as we were told it was the best one was highly recommended for people who have used it, and she had been slightly constipated. Please note that link shows a type of baby formula if this will bother any of you please don't click on it SMA really disagreed with middle 2, DD1 was fine on it, so it's swings and roundabouts what works for one doesn't for another.

Milton might well have been around for years but I still can't reconcile myself to give my baby something which smells of bleach, or that would damage my hands, which are a lot less delicate than a baby's mouth. Sorry

mrsvicx

I also can recommend the above formula (don't flame me, I was physically unable to breastfeed...
Also, you could try Dr Brown bottles, they reduce the amount of air that babe sucks in.

wendyphant

we use milton in the maternity unitand special baby care unit if there was a single chance it would harm a baby we wouldn't use it. i have used it for 15 years and never heard of any problems - as for rinsing it off that contradicts the sterilising process you should just shake it all off.