Nappies Causing Maggots

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Can someone please help...

This is the second time we've gotten maggots, the only thing I can put it down to is this has started since having a baby therefore creating a mountain of nappies lol.

After the first time I bought a Tommee Tippee nappy bin thinking that would help due to the individual wrapping and being slightly scented but it hasn't. Im not sure what to do going forward...

I'm also not sure what to do to keep it at bay as we have another week until bin day so I know it is going to be horrendous by then 😬 I know bleach and hot water is the trick but I don't want to fill up the bin with liquid whilst there is rubbish in it.

Any advice would be great appreciated🙏🏼

We had a similar thing with our bin this summer. We now double bag poo nappies in scented poo bags (Waitrose ones) and once the bin was throughly cleaned out we put ant powder in it too.

Good luck!

I'm on my 3rd and have never had this problem. Don't use nappy sacks either. Do you mean your outdoor bin or bin in the kitchen?

I have never ever had maggots in nappies and my eldest child is 25! That would only happen if flies are given the opportunity to lay eggs in the poo. Don't you wrap and dispose of them immediately?

Maggots?! How are flies getting inside the tied nappy sack?

With disposable nappies, are you tipping poo into the loo before wrapping?

I would certainly hope so! Surely no one puts poo filled nappies in the bin? 😮

I think they do, knickerless!

Where they then mummify in landfill. Will be great for the archaeologists of the future!

Homo sapiens mainly ate apple purée...

I think spraying or wiping the rim of the bin with disinfectant helps too.

Normal washable nappies are the answer. I had 3 under 3 (1+twins) for three years and washing the nappies was far less work than buying them and lugging them out to the bins. I use tea tree oil in a bucket of water with a lid. Solids down the loo, stick in the washing machine. It helps enormously to know how much a disposable nappy costs compared to washing them too.

Is your bin closing properly so flies can't get in?
The only time we had maggots was when the bin lid got cracked and flies got in.
Neutradol odour destroyer can help keep down the smells which attract flies.

What? My kids are toilet trained now but I only ever emptied reusable nappies into the toilet. Disposables I wrapped up and binned. Half the time the poo is entirely liquid (pre weaning) so it would have been more effort than it's worth. And I never really changed my babies in the bathroom or toilet so I would have been carrying an open nappy through the house... not to mention the fact you often don't have toilets in public changing rooms.
It was enough to extra effort to do that step when I swapped to reusables!

Virtually no-one who uses disposables tips the poo out. Sorry to shock you.

OP - put the nappies into an outside bin liner, use a food clip (see pic 1) to close the plastic bag, and place it in an outside bin that properly closes (see pic 2). The double barrier will stop maggots.

Maggots in the outside bin is disgusting but not easily avoidable especially if you have long collection intervals.

If you're getting them inside you need to take the bins out more regularly.

We also used Tommee Tippee nappy bin with cartridges where it individually wrapped nappies and when full you tied off top and chucked in bin. Also maggots. While everything was wrapped, in the heat the smell permeates and attracts flies. We solved it by giving the bin lid and upper inside walls a good go over with crawling insect spray. Refreshed every second day or if it rained. Worked a treat. We still need to do this sometimes now in hot weather, nothing to do with nappies as mine are all grown, everything is bagged but the heat makes things smell and that attracts flies.

*With disposable nappies, are you tipping poo into the loo before wrapping?

I would certainly hope so! Surely no one puts poo filled nappies in the bin?*

Yeah, I don’t think you have the concept of disposables. You use them so you don’t have to deal with a) the filth on them and b) arsing around washing all the time. Trying to get poo off into toilet would defeat point a. I have never known anyone with disposables to scrape the poo off and flush down toilet.

Neither have I, only on MN have I every heard of people doing this.

I do tip the poo with disposables but my wee one is usually a bit constipated so only the firmer ones that are easy to tip and any poo nappies get wrapped in a dog bag and straight to the outside bin.

Edited as got my sums wrong!

Solids are supposed to get tipped and flushed whether you use disposable or cloth. It will cut down on smell considerably.

we used cloth and it’s really easy. We did add a diaper sprayer once starting solids for the occasional messy diapers, but it’s not a necessity. Dry pail system. Wash every 2-3 days because otherwise we just had to own too many diapers.

We had them in ours the other day, lots of salt in the bin worked! I think it dries them out

I'm confused, so you you machine wash first? Then plop poo out afterwards 🤔

In the old days you used to buy thin nappy liners, which made it easy to separate solids. They came in a pack of 100 or more. They were like baby wipes, but much thinner, almost see-through, and more gauzy.

I think she means after weaning

The thought of dirty nappies sitting in the bin was one of the reasons we switched to disposables. Washed every 2 days, no maggots, no landfill, honestly so easy once you get your routine. Would definitely recommend using a nappy with complete fleece liner though, no way have I got the patience for individual liners as @eatsleepfarmrepeat describes. The Nappy Lady website has a great personalised advice service and tons of info to help you get started.
The thought of thousands of people all wrapping every nappy in little plastic bags and merrily sending them off to be buried and last forever makes me feel sick, honestly what are we doing to the planet that this has become so normal.

@Redruby2020 - yes after weaning. Weaned baby poop goes into machine as water soluble. After weaning poop into toilet first

DS1 had food allergies and cloth nappies were no less work than dealing with the neck to knee poonami that occurred every time he emptied his bowels. I had two in cloth overlapping for a year, and that didn't increase the work, and it was good retaining spare bin capacity at the end of each fortnight.