Our infection control department insisted we use dish soap for washing pump parts.  We keep a small bottle of dish soap in every patient room.  Pump parts are washed by mom in room and then exchanged for a new sterilized set once a day.  Our hospital provides the pump parts in hospital and they are sterilized an the central processing department.

I worry about the use of hand soap or antibacterial hand soaps and how they could affect the plastics of the pump parts.  Also, dish soap is readily available and relatively inexpensive.

Cordelia Merritt  RN BSN IBCLC

On Jul 27, 2011, at 8:43 AM, LACTNET automatic digest system wrote:

> Date:    Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:27:25 -0700
> From:    Susan Lawrence <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Soaps used on Pump Kits in Hospital
> 
> Regarding using hand soaps for cleaning pump kits: I'd call the soap
> manufacturer and ask if it's considered food-safe, or safe to use with food
> equipment.  (You may have noticed how some home cleaning products are
> labeled safe for use in kitchens and food preparation areas, others not.)
> Susan Lawrence, RN, LLLL, IBCLC


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