Care of Feeding-Bottles
Care of Feeding-bottles. Great care must be taken in cleansing feeding-bottles. When they can be washed immediately after using, it is easy to make them perfectly clean; but when this is impracticable they should be put to soak in cold water, then washed with hot soap-suds, and last boiled for ten minutes in clear water. If flecks dry on the inside, put a teaspoon of rice, or coarse salt, into the bottle with a little water, and shake well until all is removed. Never use shot: it might cause lead poisoning.
Plain rubber nipples alone should be used, never the tube attachment. The nipples should be washed clean and dried after each nursing. Before again using the nipple it should be put into boiling water for ten minutes, and only the rim of it should be touched in handling. The nipple should never be put into the mouth of another person to test the milk.
Condensed Milk
Condensed Milk. When a large percentage of the water of milk is evaporated, and sugar added, a thick syrup is formed, known as condensed milk.
It is made extensively in Switzerland and America. When sealed air-tight in cans it will keep indefinitely.
Its average composition—a mean of 41 analyses by Prof. Leeds—is as follows:
| Water | 30.34% |
| Fat | 12.10% |
| Milk-sugar | 16.62% |
| Cane-sugar | 22.26% |
| Albuminoids | 16.07% |
| Ash | 2.61% |
| ——— | |
| Total, | 100.00 |
Owing to the additional sugar it is impossible to dilute it so that the protein and sugar shall approach the standard of human milk.