Safety Issue with Medella Calma Teats and Milton

[bobdancing22]

Hi all,

We've been using six Medella Calma teats to feed expressed breast milk to our six week old daughter. We sterilise them after every use using Milton cold water sterilising solution.

A couple of the teats have ripped in the middle valve and failed causing our daughter to choke on milk. Medella have told us it's to do with the sterilising method and we shouldn't use Milton cold water on them and should boil them or (what a surprise) use their steam bags.

Has anyone else has this issue? just today another teat's valve has torn but we noticed before using it. Boots have replaced them but we're thinking of taking all the teats back and asking for new ones as we feel they have been damaged by doing something with them that surely is 'normal use'?

Cheers
Mike

Milton is very strong stuff indeed. It hasn't damaged any of our Mam teats but has discoloured them a lot, and my friend was saying how all the numbers on her Dr. Browns bottles had disappeared from using Milton.

I would go and buy a microwave steam steriliser they are very easy to use and less smelly.

Milton contains bleach doesn't it? Medella should say it's not recommend if it damages teats like that.