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In a message dated 9/7/01 9:10:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> does anyone have a trick for getting the smell of cigarette
> smoke off of returned pumps?
>
> Isn't it amazing what is in those pumps when they are returned?Both in the
> cases and in the classic pumps.  Lots of bugs, both dead and alive, lots of
> dried milk and spilled drinks, cigarette ashes, spilled nail polish,
> something that I think it was jello-it was neon green, and once a baby
> mouse inside the case-dead. And toenail clippings-how do those get in
> there? For a Classic pump, I dismantle, clean inside and out with
> disinfectant, rinse, and and then clean with glass cleaner. That seems to
> help with the smell. I also replace the tubing. That seems to hold in the
> smokey smell. We have such humidity here that the tubing needs requent
> replacing anyway, due to mildew in it--the tubing that runs under the
> bottom of the classic pump.  For a Lactina, I clean with disinfectant and
> then glass cleaner. Then turn the pump on and run for awhile to clear out
> the system.
>
> Barb Whitehead, IBCLC
>

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