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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 272311" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>ANother quick thought on disinfection - alcohol is also good, but the low-cost really effective way, is salt solution. As concentrated as possible. Salt is an effective preservative, because it draws water out of cells. Bacteria are cells. Salt has been used for millennia to preserve food very effectively. To clean a chopping block, you scrub it with salt.</p><p></p><p>Also effective, especially for non-porous surfaces - boiling water.</p><p></p><p>You need something easy, cheap, safe and effective. It needs to be easy because if it's not, you won't use it as you should.</p><p></p><p>I remember when I was still in the hospital after having easy child, we were required to clean the baby bottle teats with salt. We'd get a spoonful, rub it into the teat with our bare fingers, scrub it over the surface in and out, then rinse it an drop into Milton until it was needed. The practice was only stopped, because there was a nasty accident where a nurse mixed up the powdered milk with the salt, 'formula' got mixed up with the salt instead of the milk, and babies died from salt poisoning. Not because of salt on the teats, but tablespoonsful of salt in the baby bottle.</p><p></p><p>Salt is effective at cleaning and killing germs. Just be careful to rinse it off well before you use whatever you have used salt on, in order to avoid anyone accidentally ingesting too much salt.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 272311, member: 1991"] ANother quick thought on disinfection - alcohol is also good, but the low-cost really effective way, is salt solution. As concentrated as possible. Salt is an effective preservative, because it draws water out of cells. Bacteria are cells. Salt has been used for millennia to preserve food very effectively. To clean a chopping block, you scrub it with salt. Also effective, especially for non-porous surfaces - boiling water. You need something easy, cheap, safe and effective. It needs to be easy because if it's not, you won't use it as you should. I remember when I was still in the hospital after having easy child, we were required to clean the baby bottle teats with salt. We'd get a spoonful, rub it into the teat with our bare fingers, scrub it over the surface in and out, then rinse it an drop into Milton until it was needed. The practice was only stopped, because there was a nasty accident where a nurse mixed up the powdered milk with the salt, 'formula' got mixed up with the salt instead of the milk, and babies died from salt poisoning. Not because of salt on the teats, but tablespoonsful of salt in the baby bottle. Salt is effective at cleaning and killing germs. Just be careful to rinse it off well before you use whatever you have used salt on, in order to avoid anyone accidentally ingesting too much salt. Marg [/QUOTE]
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