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HIV baby bottle
Hello. I have a ten week old baby and I am in a panic.
I bought some bottles from the grocery store. When I got home I took them out of the packet and put them straight into a saucepan to boil. They boiled for around 5-10 minutes. I left them in the saucepan to cool and then took a bottle out and mixed up the formula before giving it to the baby.
My concern is - if someone else had used the bottle with breastmilk in it and them returned it to the store, they could have had been contaminated with breastmilk and if that person was HIV positive, contain HIV.
Is there any risk in this situation - if there was HIV positive breastmilk left in the bottle? Would boiling the bottles and teats etc kill the virus? And finally - once killed, would leaving the bottles to cool back down to room temperature allow the virus to reactivate or is it the case that once the virus is killed it is killed?
This may sound silly to you but is causing me a great deal of stress and effecting me wanting to feed baby.
I bought some bottles from the grocery store. When I got home I took them out of the packet and put them straight into a saucepan to boil. They boiled for around 5-10 minutes. I left them in the saucepan to cool and then took a bottle out and mixed up the formula before giving it to the baby.
My concern is - if someone else had used the bottle with breastmilk in it and them returned it to the store, they could have had been contaminated with breastmilk and if that person was HIV positive, contain HIV.
Is there any risk in this situation - if there was HIV positive breastmilk left in the bottle? Would boiling the bottles and teats etc kill the virus? And finally - once killed, would leaving the bottles to cool back down to room temperature allow the virus to reactivate or is it the case that once the virus is killed it is killed?
This may sound silly to you but is causing me a great deal of stress and effecting me wanting to feed baby.
No worries. It is not realstic to suspect the nipples had been previously used. But even if they had, there would be no risk for the reasons listed by curiosityb.
I'm worried about your emotional status. If these replies clear things up for you and you are able to feed your baby without worry, that would be great. If not, consider professional counseling. These are not rational thoughts. Sorry to be so blunt, but that's the way I see it. I have only your wellbeing in mind, and your baby's.
I'm worried about your emotional status. If these replies clear things up for you and you are able to feed your baby without worry, that would be great. If not, consider professional counseling. These are not rational thoughts. Sorry to be so blunt, but that's the way I see it. I have only your wellbeing in mind, and your baby's.
not just boiling, air kills hiv. hiv can't live outside of human's body. if that was a risk whole world could be infected. it only spreads through nursing a child when baby drinks tons of breast milk for weeks. no risk.
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