How to use the Philips Avent sterilizer

Any mother knows how important it is to pay special attention to hygiene and cleanliness in the first months of a child's life. Indeed, during this period the children's body is not able to fully reflect the negative impact of the majority of pathogenic microbes. Therefore, special care for yourself requires children's dishes: bottles, soothers, spoons.The best way to achieve perfect sterility is to use special devices. One of such devices is the Philips Avent SCF281 / 02 microwave sterilizer.

What is a microwave sterilizer?

Philips Avent is a well-known brand that has proven itself only on the positive side. For the first time the light saw the products of this company in 1984, when the first feeding bottle was released.

Today, the Philips brand is ready to offer parents a wide range of sterilizers. First place on this list is the Philips Avent SCF281 / 02 microwave sterilizer. The device is popular due to the convenience and ease of operation.

Device design:

• pallet;
• stand for bottles, nipples and breast pump, which has special grooves for dishes;
• cover with handles and lock-latch.

Despite its simple look and shape, this sterilizer can handle absolutely any subjectused by a child, be it a feeding bottle, a drink, a breast pump, a pacifier or a spoon. In general, everything that is not afraid of steam treatment.

Principle of operation

The first thing to note is that the sterilizer itself has nothing to do with electricity. In its design there is no wire, plug, motor, control unit. However, in the absence of electricity, it will not be possible to process the children's utensils, because the main condition for using the device is availability of working microwave oven. 

Using the sterilizer is simple and convenient, all you need is:

1. Pour the required amount of water into the pan.
2. Distribute baby bottles, teats and other dishes to the stand.
3. Cover and snap the locks on both sides.
4. Put in a microwave for 2 to 6 minutes (depending on the power of the equipment).

When boiling water forms steam, under the action of which sterilization of children's dishes takes place.

After completing the procedure, it is important comply with security measures. Do not rush to get microwave sterilizer in the first minutes - it is very hot, and even more so to open and lift the lid. The water inside the device and accumulated steam can burn you.

Specifications

The Avent sterilizer has the following parameters:

1. You can use bottles with both a narrow neck and a wide one.
2. The presence of side handles with a lock eliminates the possibility of accidental opening of the device, if you need to move it to another place.
3. The handles do not heat up, which allows you to quite easily get the device out of the microwave.
4. Up to 4 bottles can be processed simultaneously.
5. The kit includes tweezers, with which you can take the processed dishes.
6. Suitable for most microwaves.

Benefits

Of course, sterilizing dishes using such devices is much more convenient.Now there is no need to boil a pot of water, as our mothers did, and to catch hot bottles. Having such a device at home, it is enough to fold all the children's dishes into it, put it in the microwave, set the right time and wait a bit.

The sterilizer of the company Avent has significant advantages, which are reported to us by the instruction to it:

1. Convenience. The device has a light weight, you can always take it with you to the country, on a trip, using it as a vault for bottles on the road.
2. Rapidity. It takes only 6 minutes to get sterile utensils.
3. Antibacterial effect. Destroys up to 99.9% of all pathogenic bacteria.
4. Lasting effect. The dishware is sterile for 24 hours with the lid closed.
5. Security. The main thing is not to neglect the precautionary measures.
6. Spaciousness. The device holds up to 4 bottles or 2 breast pumps.
7. Environmental friendliness. The materials of which the sterilizer is made do not contain bisphenol-A.

Conclusion

Sterilizer - special equipment designed for processing children's dishes, the use of which will allow you to destroy up to 99.9% all harmful microbes from the surface of bottles, nipples and other children's objects.

Experts recommend that you always sterilize bottles, nipples, spoons and other dishes during the first months of a child's life in order to protect him from intestinal infections.

A microwave bottle sterilizer is able to cope with the tasks assigned to it no worse, and maybe even better than an electrical analog. However, it should not be forgotten that Phillips Avent SCF281 by itself is ineffectual, its action is possible only together with a microwave oven.