Tommee Tippee anti colic bottle how to keep sterile

dexterwolf

We purchased two anti colic bottles but it seems impossible to keep them sterile as you have s filter with a slit in and a cap that goes on top before screwing on the teat . There does not seem any way to not be able to touch the filter and cap with your hand???. So it would not be sterile. Anyone used these type of bottles before ?

System

How did we survive before this urge to make everything sterile?

Soak your hands in the sterilising solution before handling it?

Or accept what billions of parents through the ages knew, that 100% sterility is not needed or achievable outside a laboratory.

MX5huggy

As long as you are using a glove box to assemble the bottle you will be fine.

peachyprice

As long as you're assembling it just before you use it it's fine to touch the teat/filter/cap. What isn't ok is storing milk in a non-sterile bottle.

Caroline_a

I'm assuming that you hold your baby without wearing gloves? So long as you have washed your hands, it should be fine. I agree with !!!!!!.

meer53

dexterwolf wrote: »

We purchased two anti colic bottles but it seems impossible to keep them sterile as you have s filter with a slit in and a cap that goes on top before screwing on the teat . There does not seem any way to not be able to touch the filter and cap with your hand???. So it would not be sterile. Anyone used these type of bottles before ?

Wash your hands ?

Wait until your LO starts crawling !

TBagpuss

while I agree that it is not necessary for it to be totally sterile if you are using it right away, if you are concerned, or if your child is immuno-compromised or there is another reason why you need a higher level of you could buy a pack of disposable latex or vinyl gloves and wear them, dipping your fingers into the sterilising solution before putting the bottle together.

LandyAndy

As Marie Antionette nearly said 'Let them eat dirt'

geerex

Hire a laboratory with multiple airlocks.

People have always hired sterile locations for their offspring, ever since the days of Noah and his ark. Indeed, I'm sure in the new testament it said "and lo, the child sprung forth as a product of his parents loins, and as soon as he broke the ground in front of him, it was proclaimed " let there be a sterile laboratory". And there was a laboratory. And it was good.".

Get a grip.