To sterilise new toothbrushes?

[Petsinmypudenda]

Actually i know i an not being unreasonable. I don't know what's been done to it before it goes into its box.

Husband says its weird but no its not, he is just a filthy minge

ITS NOT ABOUT THE GERMS As previously stated its about whats been done to my brush before i get it.

you are all dirty minges

So what else do you sterilise? Toilet paper before you wipe your bum?

It seems to me that you understand very little about bacteria and the role they play in our lives, and even less about manufacturing processes.

So what do you THINK has been done to your tooth brush?

If "they" would lie about sterilising your toothbrush, then surely "they" could be lying about not putting botulism in the toothpaste?

mad mouse

ITS NOT ABOUT THE BLOODY GERMS!!

DilysPrice good point... Can i Dettol Colgate do you think?

but what is the point of sterilising something if it's not about killing off pathogens?

if the toothbrush people have been making some sort of offensive religious imagery with the brush before you buy it, then sterilising it is pointless.

what else could they have done to it that boiling could get rid of? do you exorcise it too?

There is simply not enough in the world.

As with all things OCD, if you do that then why not sterilise new cutlery, hairbrushes, makeup, jewelry, manicure set, and on and on forever...

No you keep saying what it is not about, but what IS it about then

I think the answer might be this:

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B000W07QA0

good point kay sterilisation will not get rid of any foreign DNA on your toothbrush

Yes Geraldine, I have

I have also observed someone else, who shall remain nameless an anaesthetist using the blue sticky tape to 'wax' their upper lip.

Sorry link fail

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B000W07QA0

YABU. Nobody else on this thread does this and I bet you don't know anyone else in real life who does it. Does that make US wrong and YOU right? In the nicest way, I think you are overthinking things and could drive yourself quite mad with anxiety longterm.

Mind you, I always rinse my mince. You don't know where it's been do you? Someone might might have put a bogie on it then rubbed it off before it got packaged.

what do you imagine they do with the toothbrush before you get it ? or are you just taking the piss now ?

This is on par
With rinsing mince

YANBU I'm with you.

I've got a bit of wierd one to throw in - do you wash new clothes before buying them?

I do and have told several people this and they think it's very strange but to me, those "new" clothes might have been tried on by half a dozen people and handled by machinists or if from primark they smell of cardboard Just me then?

Hijack over

Kayano that sounds very poetic :o

oh my god a real life mince rincer i realy thought that was a Mumsnet myth this is the same as toothbrush sterrilising ,

Can anyone link to the Rinsing Mince thread, I'm pretty devastated that I missed that one?

This is on a par
With rinsing mince.
Boiling the brush
You use
To scrub filth
From the teeth
You used
To eat the mince
That you rinsed.

rince mince?

I some times give chicken a bit of wash - I actually hate looking and touching raw chicken it makes me BOAK and sometimes it smells of Milton washed Loo's.

I think we all need to ditch the toothbrushes and go back to sticks to clean our teeth with. Environmentally friendly, disposable..

Does that make US wrong and YOU right? Yes

You dry the toothbrush with a hand towel and you sterilise toothbrushes before the first use?

I hope the hand towel is sterilised just before you use them to dry the toothbrushes.

You were bored today, weren't you?

Pretty sure that recent advice is not to wash chicken as any germs on the chicken get killed in cooking, but washing the chicken spreads the germs around the sink area where they can do actual damage.