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Cleaning the equipment
After use (for feeding), you may clean the syringe as follows and reuse them up to 10 or more times (if cleaned thoroughly and carefully).
Suck clean water rapidly into the syringe and forcefully eject it again 2 or 3 times to wash out any contamination. Do the same again using warm water and detergent or sterilising fluid in your washing-up bowl. Pull the plunger completely out of the syringe and carefully wash the plunger, the syringe body, and the feeding pipe with warm water and kitchen detergent or sterilising fluid (wear gloves if using harsh cleaners). Harsh cleaning chemicals such as Milton or other sterilizing fluids will shorten the life of the rubber components of the syringe plunger so please bear this in mind. Leave the syringe components separate to completely air dry before reassembly. If you have used any syringe for a medical procedure rather than for feeding we advise you to discard and not reuse them.
To reuse the syringe
In human medicine, the syringes are designed for single use only and after several uses, the plunger rubber will stretch and it will be difficult to reassemble the plunger into the syringe body. Pour a few drops of olive oil into the open end of the syringe body then, holding the plunger against the hole, cause the oil to run onto the plunger rubber and rotate the plunger to smear olive oil onto the whole of the rubber component of the plunger, this will allow much easier reassembly of the syringe and extend the life of the plunger.
