Easy way to sanitize bottles?

[ringstrue]

I'm so sick of boiling them. Any other ideas? How is it done in the dishwasher?

[tulips]

Medela quick clean micro steam bags.

[sjh722]

Microwave bags.

[Willis Jackson]

It's really not necessary unless your baby has a compromised immune system or something.

[VillainV]

I think I maybe sanitized twice the whole time C used bottles. Once when they were new, and once after we moved.

Sometimes I used the dishwasher. Mostly I just washed them in hot soapy water.

[sjh722]

Oct 11, 2015 18:18:50 GMT -5 Willis Jackson said:

It's really not necessary unless your baby has a compromised immune system or something.

Orrrrrr, you get thrush. Which I would not wish on my worst enemy.

[t]

I use the antibacterial setting on my dishwasher occasionally.

[starburst604]

I have a Playtex basket that you add water to and nuke, have also used the microwave bags. I use the dishwasher if I'm about to run it and have bottles to clean. Mostly I hand wash them because we go through them so often. I really just like the sanitizers because we use Dr. Brown's and I like to get those small parts extra clean every so often. If I use the dishwasher I put the nipple and small parts in the utensil holders, and the bottles and nipple collars on the rack for glasses.

[Jalapeñomel]

I stopped sanitizing them. Hot water and soap for the win.

[bowies]

Is there a reason you need to sanitize? After the first month or so we just put bottles in a normal dishwasher load and called it good (or washed by hand with hot water and soap). We didn't have thrush issues though.

[carfar]

I only sanitized when they were new. Otherwise they were just washed with super hot soapy water... or every once in a while through the dishwasher, which I assume gets hot enough to sanitize...

[simpsongal]

Never did, just used soap & water. I typically washed pump stuff by hand b/c the dishwasher was hard on little delicate pieces and had trouble cleaning bottles. We used drop in liners for bottles (so easy!)

[ringstrue]

We are dealing with a repeat illness for DS and myself and I just feel the need to deep clean everything.

[melsamoony]

ringstrue easiest ways I found: microwave bags, dishwasher w sanitizer setting (top rack), and I got a second hand bottle sterilizer which I used too.

[faith194]

Only sanitized when they were new. I did use the dishwasher a lot, but just on a regular wash, not the sani cycle.

[curbsideprophet]

I just boiled everything.

[moonpie]

We bought a bottle sanitizer. I am susceptible to yeast infections though and had a deep fear of thrush.

[anna7602]

Oct 11, 2015 18:18:57 GMT -5 sjh722 said:

Oct 11, 2015 18:18:50 GMT -5 Willis Jackson said:

It's really not necessary unless your baby has a compromised immune system or something.

Orrrrrr, you get thrush. Which I would not wish on my worst enemy.

Thrush sanitizer checking in. I didn't mind the hours of my life lost while sanitizing the hell out of everything, it made me feel like I had more control over something I clearly had no control over. (I had thrush three times!)

That said, I did end up just ditching a lot of pacifiers and bottles and just starting over with new stuff at some point. (Again, likely a control thing.)

[browneyedgirl9]

I used a avent microwave steam sterilizer.

[huskymom]

Boiled before first use, then used sanitize cycle in dishwasher.