You can add to Milton cold water steriliser

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Milton cold water steriliser you can keep the water for 24 hours and keep on adding hand washed items to it and sterilise.

Does that not sound a bit weird and counter productive?

I was thinking of adding the spoon to the steriliser to the solution. I hate how it drops into the formula.

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I have no idea what this means, sorry.
why is it counter productive? And what do you mean it drops in the formula?

In what way is it weird and counterproductive?

It stays active for 24hrs, so anything you add within that 24hrs will be sterilised (in 15mins).

No.

Milton is a bleach solution that kills germs for 24 hours.
The spoon for the formula probably has germs too but does not need sterilising because if you make your bottles up correctly, the hot water kills the germs in the formula.

Apologise.

The Milton cold water steriliser water isn't changed in 24 hours and new items can be added to the water, without it affecting the items already in the water.

I don't see how the water can maintain a level of cleaning if products are constantly being added.

And ? What is your aibu

I don't know either, I guess it's just strong disinfectant. I suppose I just naively trust the label. I've used it with all of my children and they've been fine - no stomach bugs etc

Do you not remove the items after a time? Like 15 min? So the sterilised stuff wouldn't still be there. I don't know. I never used it.
ETA on my second baby I hardly sterilised at all. I just used top shelf of dishwasher. Apparently that's what they do in Australia.

The items are "steralised" after 15 mins. Leave them in until you need them, refresh the water after 24 items. I thought you could only bulk sterilise and would have to chuck away the water.

You can clean the bottles in the dishwasher but still need a cold water or hot water process.

I don't know, sometimes dishes have come out with food on them etc. I don't trust the process with the dishwasher and when I'm too tired/lazy I have used the dishwasher to clean the bottles.

I suppose it depends what you mean by clean to be honest. It doesn't remove food debris or scrub out the bottom of bottles for you, worse luck.

As you said, Milton cold water solution remains active for 24 hours. It's a bleach tablet, dissolved in 5 litres of water, making it a high enough concentration of bleach that any micro-organisms dipped in it for 15 minutes will be killed, and that's the key to why you can keep using it. The number of items you place in there isn't supposed to affect the bleach concentration, or it doesn't affect it enough.

If you're putting visibly dirty bottles or plates in there, the food debris will build up in the water and it'll be dirty water, but still water that's too toxic for germs to live in for the first 24 hours. Bleach naturally decomposes into water and oxygen with exposure to air and light, so 24 hours after you dropped the tablet in, the bleach content level will drop to a level that germs can survive in.

It's fine to use it as the instructions tell you.
The 24 hours will be a conservative time period anyway, the testing will have been very thorough (and will be reviewed periodically) and the product has been widely used for a lot of years.

It explicitly states you can add items during the 24 hour window.

You're not using it to wash, you're using it to sterilise.

You. Ffs...

You’re supposed to wash the items first. They should have food residue on them at all.

my dc are 18 and 16. After the first few weeks with dc1 we didn’t sterilise anything. Just used the dishwasher. No issues at all. I also didn’t warm their milk which made life much easier.

If you choose to use the bleach method then it'll work as per the instructions. If you don't want to use that then do microwave sterilising. You really must clean things before sterilising either way.

Are you sure you understand what you're doing? The water isnt cleaning anything and the sterilizing effect isn't used up by how many things are in the water

You posts are a bit confusing as you're making statements not asking an AIBU so I'm not sure what youre after

We used Milton cold water steriliser for all 3 of our kids. It can be used for up 24hrs but after that it needs to be changed/refreshed.
We would remove bottles which had been in the steriliser for the right amount of time and then add more to be sterilised within the 24hrs, (because our steriliser could only hold 4-5 bottles at a time). To keep these bottles sterilised after we removed them from the milton, we would half fill them with boiling water and allow this to cool (with all caps etc on. Doing this also meant that it was quicker for us to make up bottles.we just needed to add fresh boiling water & formula, no cooling it down)
You mention a spoon, is this the one you get in the milk formula pack? If it is, we never sterilised this as it was kept clipped to the inside of the lid at all times, also, whenever we touched it, we were making up bottles, so our hands had been throughly washed 1st. hope that helps.

Yes

No

Doesn't matter if your hand a clean and you are making the bottle up with hot boiled water...formula isn't sterile.
But feel free to add a clean spoon to the steriliser.

Adding items at different times has zero impact on the process, as long as those items are washed and clean.

We still use them at work. It sure what the issue is.

I don't see how the water can maintain a level of cleaning if products are constantly being added.
Like chlorine in a swimming pool, it works on any new bacteria it finds. After 15minutes it’s sterilised that bacteria, if any new bacteria is added it will then work on that, it does little else in the meantime.

Chlorine dies.... water becomes less clean

It doesn’t last forever which is why you have to replace after a period of time. It doesn’t become less clean as such, it just stops sterilising.

We use them too and I used them with my own children.

I don’t get what the issue is either. They are way less of a faff than the microwave steriliser I bought.

Chlorine doesn't "die" it's a chemical element with a half life of 30,000 years.
This whole thread is very random... 🧐