Is breast milk fresh-keeping bag healthy and safe
1. Breast milk fresh-keeping bag is specially designed to help mothers store breast milk. When breast milk is sufficient, mothers use breast pumps to squeeze out breast milk and store it in fresh-keeping bags for refrigeration or freezing, thus ensuring that children can still feed when their mothers are working or the milk is insufficient. However, breast milk must be preserved in a sterile environment, and the quality of fresh-keeping bags is particularly important.
2, the current breast milk fresh-keeping bag, the main material is polyethylene, safety is generally not a problem. Some breast milk fresh-keeping bags with better quality will add PET to the materials, which will make the fresh-keeping bags more barrier and create more favorable conditions for breast milk fresh-keeping. Don't worry about the quality of breast milk fresh-keeping bags, but you still can't reuse them.
What are the precautions for milk storage bags?
1, when using the breast milk storage bag, just take off the bag, unzip it, and then pour in the breast milk. After breast milk is poured, the air in the bag is exhausted, and then the fresh-keeping bag is sealed by zipper. In order to ensure that breast milk will not be stored over time, it is best to record the date and time on the fresh-keeping bag with a ballpoint pen.
2. In addition, if you put the milk storage bag in the freezer. When thawing, rinse the sealed bag with cold water first, and then slowly add hot water until the breast milk reaches the temperature suitable for feeding. Never use the microwave oven to directly heat and thaw. In that case, the nutrients in breast milk will be lost. The milk storage bag is made in disposable goods. Even if the appearance is clean, it can't be reused.
How to choose breast milk fresh-keeping bag
Generally, 50 ml, 80 ml, 100 ml, 160 ml and 200 ml are available. It is suggested to choose the appropriate volume according to the milk quantity of the baby in one meal, and seal it according to the product manual, then write down the storage date and volume, and then refrigerate or freeze it.
point out
1. Do not reuse the fresh-keeping bag to avoid milk infection.
2. In the process of ice storage and thawing, mother should consider the principle that milk expands with heat and contracts with cold. When the milk is poured into the fresh-keeping bag, it can only be filled for 8 minutes at a time, so as not to cause pollution when the milk overflows during sealing.
Principles of breast milk collection:
1. During milking, milk can be collected in a bottle or a sterile cup, then put into a bottle or a fresh-keeping bag, cooled, refrigerated or frozen.
2. If there is no refrigerator in the workplace, it is best to keep breast milk fresh with ice water or ice cubes.
How to use breast milk fresh-keeping bag
First, take out the bag without disinfection, unzip it directly, pour the breast milk in or squeeze it in, then squeeze out the air inside, press it down with your fingers along the lock to seal it, and then write the date and time on the special area at the top of the bag with a ballpoint pen. When the frozen breast milk is thawed, the sealed bag should be washed with cold water, and hot water should be gradually added until the breast milk is completely thawed and raised to a temperature suitable for feeding. Do not directly heat breast milk with fire or microwave oven, it will destroy the nutrients in breast milk. After thawing, pour it directly into the bottle and feed it to the baby. Thawed breast milk must be eaten within 24 hours and cannot be frozen again.
Note: the immune body and composition of breast milk will not change basically in about 3 weeks. But as the baby grows up, the composition of breast milk will also change, and I hope to finish it within a week.