Manky water bottle spout

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DS has a bottle from school. Only ever had water in. I have always given it a quick rinse then allowed it to air dry.

Noticed today part of the spout is broken and then how mucky it is inside... how on earth do you clean those? It's an inside part I cant access at all.

Have ordered 2 new ones.

Advice appreciated!

Photo... stupid phone

You need take apart-able ones.

Shudder.

And don't just rinse, wash properly in hot soapy water. It might just have had water in it but backwash from food will happen.

These are what school requires us to have. Sold by school and labelled with the child name and class.

I am surprised that they use those... Our nursery stopped anything like that for this reason.

You need to wash them properly bacteria from her saliva willbe on the lid so a rinse isn't going to do it. I would buy a new one and start again

@MrsJayy Yes I've ordered 2 new ones. So soak and leave in dishwashing water?

Washing with hot soapy water before refilling it and a soak in milton every so often should prevent it for the next one.

It's the only way to keep the mouth pieces of my sports bottles from being biohazards anyway...

I used to swish the lid about in dish water to make sure it was cleaned out.

Sorry but why do you only rinse it and not a proper hot soapy wash every day?

Milton is a good idea. Also I bought a set of bottle brushes, including teeny ones, for cleaning spouts and water bottles, about ten quid from amazon

@MummyDummyNow It get rinsed in hot soapy water then rinsed in fresh water

Did you really spend a tenner on bottle brushes lakeland sells them for £3 Dd bought them for cleaning out travel mugs.

The hole is so bloody smell... the shit seems to be trapped between 2 plates so i cant even get inside...

Small... not smell.

Is the bottle at all squeezable? I think I would wash in hot soapy water and rinse each evening then soak in milton maybe once a week?

When washing and with the milton soak I would put the lid on the bottle and try to force the water / milton out through the spout so it gets in all the nooks and crannies.

I think I might also mention to school that they are hard to clean and ask if they would be willing to look for alternatives that are either one piece spouts or that come apart for cleaning.

@WeeDangerousSpike The bottle is pretty solid plastic... you can just about squeeze it if you give it a try... DS wouldn't be able to manage.

What about interdental brushes?

Hate that schools enforce same water bottle as half the little children can’t read their names so drink from others if they’re stored centrally.

I don't even think those would work @Orchidflower1

trying to find a similar bottle online...

This is my illustrative drawing of said bottle... I assume the sucking notion moves the top plate allowing water to pass through. I see only a disk shape from top or bottom when looking at the cap and no way of getting into it

I soak it in Milton overnight then rinse with boiling water. Soon clears it out!

Argh I see what you meen op it’s a weird valve thingy isn’t it!
I’d go with the Milton then so at least you know it’s sterile.

Did you really spend a tenner on bottle brushes lakeland sells them for £3 Dd bought them for cleaning out travel mugs
It was a huge range of sizes, and I’ve found uses for them that I’d never realised I needed them for 😉 so it was worth it. EG two water butts where the tap became blocked ‘stuff’, angled the wire pushed brush through to unclog it saved me emptying it and wasting the water to unclog from the inside. So satisfying 😂

Soak in Milton / baby bottle steriliser weekly and rinse with boiling water. Might make the water taste yucky but better than mould.

DD has the same bottle in school. I just put them both in the dishwasher and have never had a problem with manky spouts.