It is said that illness comes from the mouth. I believe that the first thing for many people to eat out may be to wash the tableware with water first.
In the face of things to put into the mouth, people are always careful, even for adults, let alone parents in the face of children.
A lot of baopa and Baoma should wash the baby's milk bottle or scald it with hot water before brewing milk powder for the baby, but is this scalding really useful?
Can hot water really disinfect the tableware of a milk bottle? Xiao Chen's baby is not yet full moon. In order to take care of the baby, Xiao Chen's mother-in-law moved here to live with the couple.
Xiao Chen's mother-in-law is a person who believes in the effect of "scalding". Not only do you have to wash the tableware with hot water when you go out to eat, but also you have to scald the tableware with hot water before you brew milk powder for your children at home.
According to her theory, it can kill a lot of bacteria and make the food healthy.
But Xiao Chen thought that her mother-in-law's practice was meaningless. She thought that hot water could not sterilize the milk bottles, so she always told her husband to add a sterilized cupboard to the family.
But my mother-in-law thought it was too expensive to use hot water. For a while, the atmosphere at home became extremely tense.
Maybe a lot of people are like Xiao Chen's mother-in-law. They think that whether it's tableware or milk bottles, it's OK to use hot water to scald and sterilize them. My family used to do the same thing.
But in fact, the action of scalding with hot water can't play the role of disinfection. If you want to sterilize the tableware with hot water, generally speaking, you need to meet the two factors of time and temperature. Even if 100 ℃ boiling water is used, to achieve the effect of disinfection and sterilization, the tableware should be immersed in it and heated for more than 5 minutes.
So the question is, whether the hot water in the hotel or the hot water we usually use to heat our milk bottles at home, has it reached this temperature?
In fact, don't say that the temperature is reached. Many people spend less than a minute at most when they are scalding. This time and temperature can't kill any bacteria or viruses at all.
So the so-called "scalding and scalding" disinfection is just a behavior to make you feel at ease. It has no substantive effect. If you are really not at ease, you might as well go out and bring your own tableware.
The right way to sterilize a bottle since a hot one can't sterilize a bottle, what's the right way to sterilize a bottle?
First, disinfection cabinet
In fact, Chen's idea is completely correct. The best way is to prepare a disinfection cabinet at home.
Disinfection cabinet is a more professional and scientific way of disinfection. Parents do not need too much operation. It is easy to use and easy to worry about.
Generally speaking, the tableware disinfection cabinet mostly uses ozone, high temperature, ultraviolet and other conditions to disinfect. If the parents are not satisfied with these conditions, they can also buy a special bottle sterilizer for the baby.
Bottle sterilizer is more common is to use high-temperature steam to sterilize bottles, is also a very safe choice.
Second, boiling water disinfection
Compared with disinfecting cabinet, boiling water boiling is more troublesome, but the advantage is that it is cheaper and easy to operate.
Although hot water can't disinfect, boiling water can do a good job in killing poison.
Of course, before using this method, parents remember to confirm whether the material of the bottle is suitable for high temperature, so as to avoid unnecessary problems.
At the same time, using boiling water to boil milk bottles to sterilize, time requirements are also very strict, it is recommended to boil in boiling water for at least 10 minutes.
Third, disinfectant
Many parents may think that disinfectant, which sounds like bleach, does not dare to be used on tableware, which needs to be imported.
But in fact, many household disinfectants are safe as long as they are used in the right way, and the bactericidal effect is also very good.
However, when using disinfectant, parents must pay attention to the ratio of disinfectant and water. In fact, many tableware disinfectants available on the market need to be diluted with water first.
Parents must operate the water carefully according to the instructions.
In addition, no matter what kind of disinfection method is used, the first step before disinfection should be to clean the milk bottle first. Wash the milk bottle with warm water and detergent to prepare for sterilization.
Now that we know the way to sterilize milk bottles, parents need to know the interval time to sterilize milk bottles.
According to the age of the baby, there are different time requirements for sterilizing the bottle.
1. Babies less than 3 months old: at this stage, the baby has no resistance at all, and the body is very fragile. A little bacteria may cause the baby to get sick.
So it is recommended that after each use, the bottle be cleaned and then disinfected.
2, 3-6 months old baby: this stage of baby and have a certain resistance, so once a day sterilization bottle is enough, preferably in the morning or evening.
3. Babies over 6 months old: for babies at this stage, the sterilization of milk bottles is not so important, as long as the milk stains of milk bottles and nipples can be thoroughly cleaned and kept dry and airtight for storage.
Of course, if parents think their local water pollution is more serious, they can still disinfect the baby's bottle until weaning. They can keep cleaning the nipple and bottle stains every day, and thoroughly disinfect them once every two to three days.
How often should bottles be replaced? Understand the sterilization of milk bottles, parents should also know about the replacement of milk bottles. Generally speaking, a bottle is not able to support the baby before weaning, so how often should the bottle be replaced?
1. Plastic milk bottle
Many families choose plastic bottles for their babies, because plastic bottles are light in weight, small in size and more convenient for their babies to use.
But plastic milk bottle also has a big disadvantage. The material of plastic will be scratched due to repeated cleaning and brushing, resulting in rough inner wall.
So in general, it is not recommended to use the bottle for more than 6 months. When it is found that the bottle body of the bottle is unclear, the parents need to replace the new bottle.
2. Glass milk bottle
Compared with plastic milk bottles, glass milk bottles rarely have scratches caused by cleaning, so as long as there is no crack in glass milk bottles, as long as they are properly cleaned and disinfected, they can be used all the time.
3. Silicone milk bottle
At present, there are few families using silica gel milk bottles, and the service life of silica gel milk bottles can be judged according to the change of bottle color.
If the bottle has been discolored, it should be replaced in time; even if there is no discoloration, it should be replaced once every 3-6 months.
Compared with the replacement of the bottle, the replacement time of the pacifier is shorter because the pacifier is mostly in contact with the baby's mouth and the outside air. In addition, compared with the difficulty of cleaning the bottle, the difficulty of cleaning the pacifier is actually greater.
At the same time, in order to avoid the problem that the hole of the pacifier becomes larger during the use, resulting in the child's choking milk, it is generally recommended to replace the pacifier once every two months.
In addition, because most of the nipples on the market are made of silica gel, there are two situations that parents should pay attention to
First, the nipple is cracked.
Although the high temperature resistance and wear resistance of silica gel material are very good, many babies will bite the nipple when sucking at ordinary times. It is easy to crack the nipple, or make the hole of the nipple bigger.
Second, aging nipples
Frequent high-temperature cleaning and use may cause silicone aging of the nipple. Parents can usually pay attention to whether the baby's nipple becomes sticky and slippery, which is the proof of silicone aging.
It's a hard job to raise children. Parents always have to raise 120000 spirits to arrange everything in their baby's life, for fear that their negligence will lead to the baby's illness and injury.
And infant period is also the most important growth stage of every baby. At this stage, they don't know anything, nothing, don't know how to protect themselves, and don't know how to distinguish the health of a food. Everything depends on their parents.
I hope every parent can protect their baby well and let her baby grow up healthily.