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A video about how to wash and sterilise formula equipment.
Source: KidsHealth

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[Music]

Voice

Washing and sterilising of feeding equipment is very important. It is also very important to have clean hands when handling feeding equipment or preparing formula.

[Music]

Lactation consultant

Make sure the sides or seams are well cleaned. You just need to push it really firmly in and concentrate around the top and around the bottom.

[Sounds of washing and running water]

Mum

Is there a certain way I do it?

[Sounds of washing and running water]

Lactation consultant

No just as long as you're cleaning really briskly because we want to make sure that there's nothing left inside there because any residue can make a difference when you're trying to sterilise the equipment.

[Sounds of washing and running water]

Just get right up inside that teat and make sure that you get all the rims round the outside because milk can dry and cause a coating and you want to make sure it's all gone.

[Scrubbing sounds]

Mum

OK.

Lactation consultant

Well done.

[Scrubbing sounds]

Mum

And rinse it as well?

Lactation consultant

Now rinse it in hot water.

[Sound of tap being turned on and water running]

[Muffled comments]

And the casing the same, making sure you go right in around the centre

[Sounds of washing and running water]

Voice

Your newborn baby is at risk of infection so you must wash and sterilise all feeding equipment to kill any bugs until your baby is 3 months old.

[Sound of gas ring being turned on]

[Sound of gas ring on]

Lactation consultant

Roimata, it's really important that we sterilise the equipment really well and obviously we've gone through the boiling technique because that suits you but there are different types of sterilising, there's ... you can use a tablet form and soaking and you can use microwave sterilisers and they're all available obviously from, um, pharmacies. Um, whichever form of sterilisation that you use, it's really important that you follow
the instructions that are on the um, container ...

Mum

Yeah.

Lactation consultant

... to the maximum really because we do want to make sure that the preparation and the sterilisation is optimal for this little person.

[Music]

Voice

After 3 months, thorough washing and rinsing is enough.

[Muffled conversation]

[Music]

Voice

Always wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water and dry them on a clean cloth or paper towel before sterilising the equipment or making your baby's formula.

Lactation consultant

Great, just dry them over there.

Key messages in other languages

He mea nui te horoi me te whakahoromata i ngฤ utauta whฤngai.  He mea nui tonu kia mฤ hoki ล ringa ina raweke ana i ngฤ utauta whฤngai, te whakarite paura miraka rฤnei.

Ka tลซpono tล pฤ“pi hou ki ngฤ mate nล reira me mฤtua horoi me te whakahoromata i ngฤ utauta whฤngai katoa hei patu i ngฤ tipu katoa kia eke rฤ anล tล pฤ“pi ki te 3 marama.  I muri i te 3 marama, he pai te ฤta horoi.

Me ฤta horoi koe i ล ringa i ngฤ wฤ katoa ki te hopi me te wai ka taora ki tฤ“tahi taora mฤ, taora pepa rฤnei i mua i tล whakahoromata utauta, te mahi rฤnei i te paura miraka mฤ tล pฤ“pi.

Mahuiga lahi e holoholo mo e tunu fakameฤ he tau koloa palu huhu.  Mua atu foki ke fakameฤ fakamakutu e tau lima ka fota he tau koloa fakameฤ poke ke palu aki e tau huhu.

Mukamuka ke moua he muke haau e tau gagao ti kua lata ke fakameฤ fakalahi e tau koloa taute huhu ke keli aki e tau moko kelea ato tลซ e 3 mahina.  Ka molea e 3 mahina, kua lata ni ke holoholo fakameฤ mo e fufulu.

Holoholo tumau e tau lima haau aki e magamoli mo e vai ti fakamลmล aki e kalaie poke pepa tauela to fano ke fakameฤ e tau koloa taute huhu poke palu ai e huhu he muke haau.

O le fufuluina ma le vaivelaina o mea e faโ€˜aaoga i le faiga o meaโ€˜ai e tฤua tele.  E tฤua tele foโ€˜i le mamฤ o lima pe a tagofia mea e faโ€˜aaogฤ mo le saunia o fagu susu.

E faigofie lava ona โ€˜apoina lau pepe faโ€˜atoโ€˜a fanau mai i maโ€˜i po o inifeti ma e tatau ai lava ona fufulu lelei ma vaivela mea e faโ€˜aaoga ina ia tapฤ“ina ai ni siama se โ€˜ia oโ€˜o i le 3 masina le matua o lau pepe.  A uma loa le 3 masina, o le a faโ€˜agata ai loa le fufuluina maโ€˜eaeโ€˜a o mea e faโ€˜aaogฤ.

Ia fufulu lelei ou lima i taimi uma lava i le fasimoli ma vai ma solo mago lelei i se solo mamฤ po o se pepa solo foโ€˜i a o le i vaivelaina mea e faโ€˜aaoga po o le faiga o le fagususu a lau pepe. 

Ko te fufuluga ma te tฤmatega (sterilising) o nฤ mea e fakahuhu ai te pepe e tฤua lahi lele.  E tฤua lahi lele foki ke fufulu nฤ lima kฤfai e tagofia nฤ mea e fakaaogฤ mล te fafฤgaga pe ko te hauniga o te formula.

Ko tau pepe fou fatoฤ fฤnau mai e ฤfฤina lahi i nฤ famai e tatau la koe ke fufulu mamฤ ma tฤmate uma nฤ hiama i nฤ mea e fakaaogฤ i te fafฤgaga pe ko te hauniga o te formula ke kฤtoa te 3 mahina te matua. E uma loa te 3 mฤhina, ko te fufulu fakamฤeaea ma te lลซlลซ kua lava.

Fakamฤhani oi fufulu ke mamฤ lelei ล lima i he meamoli ma te vai ma fakamago i he meakie mamฤ pe he holo pepa ka ko hฤ“ki tฤmatea nฤ hiama i nฤ mea faigฤluega pe ko te paluga o te formula a tau pepe.

โ€˜Oku mahuโ€˜inga โ€˜aupito โ€˜a hono fufulu pea mo hono haka โ€˜o e ngaahi nฤunau fafanga โ€˜a e pฤ“peeยด.  โ€˜Oku mahuโ€˜inga foki ke maโ€˜a โ€˜a e nimaยด โ€˜i he taimi โ€˜okuยด te ala ai ki he ngaahi nฤunau fafangaยด pe teuteuโ€˜i ai โ€˜a e hina huhuยด.

โ€˜Oku tuโ€˜u laveangofua โ€˜a hoโ€˜o pฤ“pฤ“ toki fanauโ€˜iยด ke ne maโ€˜u ha mahaki pipihi pea ko ia ai kuo pau ke ke fufulu pea haka โ€˜a e ngaahi nฤunau fafanga kotoa pฤ“ ke tฤmateโ€˜i ha ngaahi siemu kaeโ€˜oua kuo mฤhina 3 โ€˜a hoโ€˜o pฤ“peeยด.  Hili โ€˜a e mฤhina 3, โ€˜oku feโ€˜unga pฤ“ โ€˜a hono mฤtuโ€˜aki fufulu mo vaimaโ€˜a โ€˜o e nฤunau fafangaยด.

Fanofano maโ€˜u pฤ“ ho nimaยด ke mฤtuโ€˜aki maโ€˜a โ€˜aki ha koa mo ha vai pea holoholo โ€˜aki ha taueli pe taueli pepa kimuโ€˜a peaยด ke toki haka โ€˜a e nฤunau fafangaยด pe teuteuโ€˜i โ€˜a e hina huhu โ€˜a hoโ€˜o pฤ“peeยด.

E tuanga puapinga maata te tฤmฤ meitaki ma te akapapu i te au apinga kaikai kia kore e tiemu o runga.  E mea puapinga maata katoa kia ma meitaki te rima me amirimiriโ€˜ia te au apinga angai pepe, me kore ra, me teatea-mamaoโ€˜ia tana formula.

E turanga ngoie to taau pepe tei anau ou mai e tuโ€˜ia ai aia e te au maki piri, no reira koe ka anoanoโ€˜ia kia tฤma meitaki ma te akapapu e kare te tiemu i runga i te au apinga kaikai a taau pepe, e tae ua atu aia ki te 3 marama.  Me pou te 3 marama, ka rava ua te tฤma pera ua e te ruru tama pako ki te vai.

E tฤma meitaki ua rai koe i toou nga rima ki te puโ€˜a e te vai, ka tฤmaro ei ki tetai kakau ma, me kore ra ki tetai tauera pepa, i mua ake ka tunu ei ki te vai vera i te au apinga maani u, me kore ra, maani i te formula a taau pepe.

ๅฏนๅ–‚ๅฅถ่ฎพๅค‡่ฟ›่กŒๆธ…ๆด—ๅ’Œๆถˆๆฏ’๏ผŒๅๅˆ†้‡่ฆใ€‚ๆŽฅ่งฆๅ–‚ๅฅถ่ฎพๅค‡ๆˆ–ๅ‡†ๅค‡้…ๆ–นๅฅถไน‹ๅ‰๏ผŒๆด—ๅ‡€ๅŒๆ‰‹ไนŸๅๅˆ†้‡่ฆใ€‚

ๆ–ฐ็”Ÿๅ„ฟๆ˜“ๅ—็—…่Œไพต่ขญ๏ผŒๆ‰€ไปฅๅœจๆ‚จ็š„ๅฉดๅ„ฟ3ไธชๆœˆๅคงไน‹ๅ‰๏ผŒๆ‚จๅฟ…้กปๅฏนๆ‰€ๆœ‰ๅ–‚ๅฅถ่ฎพๅค‡่ฟ›่กŒๆธ…ๆด—ๅ’Œๆถˆๆฏ’๏ผŒๆ€ๆญป็—…่Œใ€‚3ไธชๆœˆไน‹ๅŽ๏ผŒๅฐฑๅช้œ€ๅฏนๅ…ถๅฝปๅบ•ๆธ…ๆด—ใ€‚

ไธ€ๅฎš่ฆ็”จ่‚ฅ็š‚ๅ’Œๆธ…ๆฐดๆŠŠๆ‚จ็š„ๆ‰‹ๅฝปๅบ•ๆด—ๅนฒๅ‡€๏ผŒๅ†็”จๆธ…ๆด็š„ๅธƒๆˆ–็บธๅทพๆ“ฆๅนฒ๏ผŒ็„ถๅŽๅ†็ป™่ฎพๅค‡ๆถˆๆฏ’ๆˆ–ไธบๆ‚จ็š„ๅฉดๅ„ฟๅ‡†ๅค‡้…ๆ–นๅฅถใ€‚

ๆธ…ๆด—ๅŠๆถˆๆฏ’้คตๅฅถๅ™จๅ…ทๅๅˆ†้‡่ฆใ€‚ๅœจๆŽฅ่งธ้คตๅฅถๅ™จๅ…ทๆˆ–ๆณกๅฅถๆ™‚ๆธ…ๆฝ”้›™ๆ‰‹ไนŸ้žๅธธ้‡่ฆใ€‚

ๆ‚จ็š„ๆ–ฐ็”Ÿๅ…’ๅพˆๅฎนๆ˜“ๅ—ๅˆฐๆ„ŸๆŸ“๏ผŒๆ‰€ไปฅๆ‚จๅœจๅฏถๅฏถๆปฟ3ๅ€‹ๆœˆๅคงไน‹ๅ‰ๅฟ…้ ˆๆธ…ๆฝ”ๅŠๆถˆๆฏ’ๆ‰€ๆœ‰้คตๅฅถๅ™จๅ…ท๏ผŒไปฅๆฎบๆป…ๆ‰€ๆœ‰็—…่Œใ€‚3ๅ€‹ๆœˆๅคงไน‹ๅพŒ๏ผŒๅพนๅบ•็š„ๆธ…ๆด—ๅ™จๅ…ทๅŠๆฒ–ๆฐดๅณ่ถณๅค ใ€‚

ๅ‹™ๅฟ…ๅœจๆฏไธ€ๆฌกๆถˆๆฏ’ๅ™จๅ…ทๆˆ–ๆฒ–ๆณกๅฏถๅฏถ็š„้…ๆ–นๅฅถไน‹ๅ‰๏ผŒๅ…ˆไปฅ่‚ฅ็š‚ๅŠๆธ…ๆฐดๅพนๅบ•ๆด—ๆ‰‹๏ผŒไธฆไปฅไนพๆทจ็š„ๅธƒๆˆ–็ด™ๅทพๆ“ฆไนพๆ‰‹ใ€‚

์ˆ˜์œ  ์šฉํ’ˆ์„ ์”ป๊ณ  ์†Œ๋…ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์€ ์•„์ฃผ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  ์ˆ˜์œ  ์šฉํ’ˆ์„ ๋งŒ์ง€๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ถ„์œ ๋ฅผ ํƒˆ ๋•Œ ์†์„ ๊นจ๋—์ด ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๋˜ํ•œ ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‹ ์ƒ์•„์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์—ผ์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฏ€๋กœ ์ƒํ›„ 3๊ฐœ์›”์ด ๋  ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ˆ˜์œ  ์šฉํ’ˆ์„ ์”ป๊ณ  ์†Œ๋…ํ•ด์„œ ๋ณ‘๊ท ์„ ์ฃฝ์—ฌ์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  3๊ฐœ์›” ํ›„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๋Š” ์ž˜ ์”ป๊ณ  ํ—น๊ตฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ˆ˜์œ  ์šฉํ’ˆ์„ ์†Œ๋…ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ถ„์œ ๋ฅผ ํƒ€๊ธฐ ์ „์— ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋น„๋ˆ„๋กœ ์†์„ ์ž˜ ์”ป๊ณ  ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ ์ˆ˜๊ฑด์ด๋‚˜ ์ข…์ด ํƒ€์›”๋กœ ๋‹ฆ๋„๋ก ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Key messages

Washing and sterilising of feeding equipment is very important.  It is also very important to have clean hands when handling feeding equipment or preparing formula.

Your newborn baby is at risk of infection so you must wash and sterilise all feeding equipment to kill any bugs until your baby is 3 months old. After 3 months, thorough washing and rinsing is enough.

Always wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water and dry them on a clean cloth or paper towel before sterilising the equipment or making your babyโ€™s formula.

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