Sterifeed Disposable Sterile Baby Bottle, 250ml, Pack of 10

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The BDA's Corporate Member - Nutricia, have rolled out a sustainable initiative to combat one use plastics in home enteral feeding. This thoughtful and sustainable initiative from Nutricia has improved the experiences of my patients, their parents and the professionals who work with them. I would strongly encourage other dietitians and community nurses to consider switching their patients from Flocacare to Sterifeed.

The brand name Sterifeed has been used by the company Medicare Colgate Ltd to supply hospitals around the world since 1994. Due to our scientific evidence based safety features and exceptional level of customer service Sterifeed are the global market leader for pasteurisation equipment for donor human milk with over 500 pasteurisers running in 60 different countries. Sterifeed 130ml bottles (14189) may be reused following careful sterilisation. The recommended method is cold-water sterilisation tank, using Milton or similar sterilising liquid. Also suitable for most electric steam sterilisers. I had two key reasons for changing– to reduce plastic waste and to improve patient experience. She agreed to the change and agreed with the parents’ sentiments that single-use reservoirs are not environmentally friendly and rather wasteful. My experience was that out of my caseload of 123 paediatric patients, 59 used Flocare single-use reservoirs. Many of these patients used more than one container per day. Oftentimes parents would ask me “ can I reuse Flocare containers?” Manually changing every child’s Homeward regimen from Flocare to Sterifeed took some time, but was not insurmountable. Remembering to add on the universal adaptors was an important step that I forgot a few times!

Make sure there are no air bubbles trapped in the bottles or teats when putting them in the sterilising solution. Your steriliser should have a floating cover or a plunger to keep all the equipment under the solution. The advice about how to clean your baby's feeding equipment applies to all of the equipment, and whether you are using expressed breast milk or formula milk. How to sterilise baby feeding equipment

Many paediatric home enteral feeding patients use feeds that are not pre-mixed and thus require a reservoir for powdered feeds to be reconstituted and stored in during feeding times. Some paediatric patients use reservoirs for water and medication administration too. Rapid refrigerated cooling forms a crucial part of the pasteurization process as it limits the regrowth of bacteria. Pasteurizers that don't have rapid refrigerated cooling do not meet the worlds leading human milk banking associations guidelines. You can put your baby's feeding equipment in the dishwasher to clean it if you prefer. Putting feeding equipment through the dishwasher will clean it but it does not sterilise it. Make sure bottles, lids and teats are facing downwards. You may prefer to wash teats separately by hand to make sure they are completely clean. I enclosed the patient information leaflet on Sterifeed so that parents would be fully aware of what using Sterifeed would entail. I enclosed the patient information leaflet, and reiterated that these bottles should be recycled after 30 uses. On 1 April 2021, I switched patients from Flocare to Sterifeed, except those who had opted out. Reception Wash and dry your hands before handling sterilised equipment. Better still, use some sterile tongs.By the end of April 2021, all patients had received their first Homeward delivery with Sterifeed reservoirs instead of Flocare reserviors. I work as the paediatric dietetics team lead at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, and my caseload comprises many children who are home enterally fed. Pasteurizer suppliers who claim that refrigerated cooling might not be safe have not done their homework as their pasteurizerwill not meet many of the worlds human milk banking guidelines.