Help! Partner put a teether in steriliser which he shouldn't of! Has it contaminated everything?

[jem81]

Hi, my partner sterilised the bottles in an Avent microwave steriiser and when I opened it I noticed that he had put a small plastic teether (which he shouldn't of!) and it had melted slightly.
Does anyone know if it will be safe to use the bottles etc that was in the steriliser and the steriliser in fact as chemicals must have been produced from the melting teether.
Typical as I'd just brought new bottles as I wanted to use BPA free and was using Avent before!

I did the same thing with a teether. I didn't even think about fumes.
I washed bottles and steriliser out again, sterilised the steriliser on it's own and then did the bottles again.
Can you call Avent customer care and check with them?

Thanks for fast reply, I thought of ringing Avent but then thought they would tell me to discontinue use to make sure it covers them! But I think I will give them a ring as baby will be needing a bottle soon!

Yeah and to get you to spend another £30 on a new steriliser
I carried on using ours, like I said didn't even cross my mind that teether could have released any nasties.

Just rang Avent and the advisor said its fine to keep using it. Quite worrying she never asked any details at all but I suppose if its a common thing shes used to responding to this phonecall!
Merry christmas!

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I'm sure loads of people do it and probably the reason it's unsuitable for microwave is that the teether will melt, not that it will release any deadly vapours, but I would sterilise it on own first just as a precaution.

I misread this title and thought your partner had sterilised his teeth. I'm a little disappointed that it's just a teether.

Hahaha