Milton tablets or Zoflora

[Pamt1983]

For my daughters high chair or her small table & chairs can I use zoflora properly diluted or a Milton tablet diluted in a large spray bottle?

I would not use either of them regularly. There’s no need. Wipe down with hot water and a cloth after each meal. Milton’s is technically food grade, but it’s still just dilute bleach, not something you want your baby ingesting at their next meal. You only need anything stronger than that if there’s been a d & v bug in the family.

You need something more than hot water. The problem is the cloth itself. It's harbouring millions of germs and using it with no anti bacterial qualities will simply make the surface wiped dirtier.

Just hot soapy water is fine

Nothing wrong with either of them.

I'm sure OP isn't using a filthy dish cloth to wipe her baby's highchair! Hot soapy water with a clean cloth is just fine. There's no need to use bleach or disinfectants every time you wipe something. Over-use can cause problems as it reduces your child's exposure to harmless everyday bacteria.

I used to just use a baby wipe!

You can buy Milton spray or any sort of spray would work, or a damp cloth or a baby wipe.

Every damp cloth IS a filthy cloth even if it looks or smells clean to you. A mild bleach solution protects the cloth and the surfaces well.

Always use a clean cloth and I just put 1/4 of a Milton tablet into a spray bottle with water, do you think that would be ok?

Do you have antibacterial spray? Use that? Why are you faffing about with Milton tablets?

Every damp cloth is not a filthy cloth! There are bacteria everywhere, and it's bad for our health to attempt to eliminate them all.

We have a flannel (for wiping hands and faces), a cloth (for surfaces) and a washing up pad (for washing up). These all go in the washing machine at the end of the day and are rinsed many times in hot soapy water throughout the day. We are vegetarian so there are no dangerous chicken juices or anything around. Any cloths used in bathrooms or on floors are kept separate.

Our cloths are not filthy and it's not necessary to use bleach all the time. The bleach only comes out in our house if there's a tummy bug about... which is thankfully rare.

I agree with blackink we are too clean nowadays, kids need exposure to bacteria. Hot soapy water is fine. There is emerging evidence that being too clean is a possible cause for the increase in allergies

Antibacterial spray and a cloth.

Agree with others. I just wash the try in hot soapy water then spray with actual highchair with normal all-purpose cleaner a couple of times a day. I wouldn't want to expose my child to lots of bleach, only a little when we're all really ill.

I just use a wet wipe.
If horrendously messy then supermarket or method anti-bac spray.
Zoflora is very strong even when diluted I wouldn't use that on the high chair.

I just use some anti bac spray and a bit of kitchen towel.

I used resusable cloth wipes. They are washed at 60C and then used once for wiping down the table/high chair after meals and thrown in the washing machine to be washed again (I do wash every day). That's about as clean as you can possibly get. Kitchen sprays and bleach get on food that your dc will eat off the high chair. Unless they are old enough to be using cutlery, that's unavoidable. No reason to be exposing them to cleaners and such that aren't meant to be eaten when you can keep these easily clean in other ways. Hot water on a clean cloth will do it (and it's also better for the environment than chemical cleaners and single use wipes).

Read this:
www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/antibacterial-cleaning-products

The use of antibacterial products is more harmful in the long term as most people don't use them properly.

I use diluted zoflora in a spray bottle and then wet wipes.

Agree with the no bleachers here, never sterilised a thing for ds2 and he has always been zingingly healthy. Hot soapy water and a clean cloth - stick it in a hot wash at once if you like. I never use bleach and no one is ever ill in my house, honestly.

People really put bleach on their kids high chairs?!?!! I wouldn’t use bleach anywhere near food surfaces!!!

Like others have said. But of hot soapy water.

We are too clean nowadays. That’s why there is a rise of allergies. I have a friend who is a top pead dr in London. Says the wax thing same thing

Milton’s is technically food grade, but it’s still just dilute bleach, not something you want your baby ingesting at their next meal

Eh? Does that mean millions of bottle fed babies have been poisoned from birth?

Well, bleach is toxic. If we were talking about something like cigarette smoke or lead or alcohol very few people would think it was reasonable to smear it (even in a very diluted form) all over a baby's high chair tray, or rinse babies' bottle with it.

Yes, chances are it probable wouldn't do any obvious harm if dilute enough, but why risk it?

I'm not someone who would refuse to let an unwashed smoker hold my baby (the world is full of toxins like car exhaust fumes), but the people who would have a fit if a smoker even looked at their baby are probably the same people who obsessively bleach their baby's highchair... I'm not a smoker BTW, just an example.