To sterilise second hand cups

[silver25]

A friend gave me a couple of cups for my toddler that her kids no longer needed. They look in pretty good condition, but I'd like to Milton them before letting my daughter drink out of them. My DH thinks I'm being a clean freak and that just washing them with dish soap and hot water would be fine. Am I being unreasonable to want to properly sterilise cups that other germy children have drunk from?

I’d just wash them.
If I felt something needed an extra good clean I would just put some boiling water and washing up liquid in and rinse with a bit more boiling water. It’ll be fine 😊

Yes boiling water would be fine. As for your DH weighing in with a second opinion, just smile and carry on

Definitely not worthy of an AIBU, scraping the barrel!

Not a newborn 🤷🏻‍♀️ no need. A good wash and scrub is fine

If I had some sterilising tablets to hand and they had lots of bits (lids, straws, spouts and lots of fiddly little spots that aren't easy to clean properly etc) then I might sterilise them but if I had to go out and specifically buy sterilising tablets or they were just regular tumblers then I wouldnt bother, I'd just bung them in hot soapy water/dishwasher

If it's just a plastic cup with a lid and spout then I'd just wash it. If it's the kind of cup with flip spout/straws/no spill feature with nooks and crannies I'd sterilise

I'd run them through the dishwasher but I wouldn't sterilise them with Milton.

Not an aibu post.
Buy new cups if you're that worried.

Dish washer. If it's a sippy cup with fiddly holes I'd probably sterilse

Washing them in the normal way is absolutely fine.

When people come to your house and you offer them a drink, do you sterilise their glass after they've gone home? I doubt it.What about when your kid goes to other people's houses?

If your child plays with other children, they are swapping germs the entire time. You don't need to sterilise a toddler cup at all. It's fine.

I would run them through the dishwasher with the rest of the daily load

Wouldn't even cross my mind to sterilise them. Hot soapy water will be more than fine.

My kid has long-since put toys from every baby and toddler group into his mouth. And he’s perfectly healthy. So sterilising some cups your mate’s given you seems a huge panicky overreaction. Unless you don’t actually allow your child near anything out of the house, they don’t attend a childcare setting and you keep your house operating theatre-fresh, in which case it’ll be normal for you.

I work at a toddler group we don't sterilise plastic cups we just wash them and if sippy cups are bitten we replace them .

My god, when mine were young and we did toddler groups they had drinks out of beakers that the group owned. The beakers were washed at the end of a session and put in the cupboard to be brought out at the next session.
You are being ridiculous.