Lucy, this has been discussed before on LACTNET. Since milk and the breast
are not sterile, sterilizing all the pump parts does not make sense. This is
a clean process. The Human Milk Bank states the process is clean not
sterile.
This mom who had a mastitis. What were the circumstances around it? Was it
truly a mastitis or an inflammation?
The pump manufactures state to sterilize first to protect themselves from
litigation not based on research.
Ann Perry, RN IBCLC
Boston, MA
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