EP Q: how often to sterilize/ change pump parts

Re: EP Q: how often to sterilize/ change pump parts

• danieliza1127 member

  November 2012

  I've been EPing since August.  I've changed my membranes once.  I wipe my parts down between pump sessions when I'm at work and then wash with hot soapy water when I get home.   On the weekends, I rinse them with water after every pump and wash with soap once a day.  I really don't sterilize.  I just never think to do it. 

  I think you can change the membranes whenever you start to feel a loss of suction or if you're noticing that you need to turn it up higher than you usually do to get the same result.
  

  
  

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• cmhicklin member

  November 2012

  I EPed for a year, and only changed my membranes 3 times.  I agree with the pp about changing them when there is a difference in your pumping. I rinsed my parts with super hot water between pumps, and washed them in the dishwasher everyday. 

  
  

  

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• lil_jen051708

  November 2012

  Not an EP'er but I pump at work and sometimes at home.  There's not really a need to rinse after each use.  I just throw them in a plastic bowl in the fridge (or in a ziplock at work in my pumping room fridge). 

  I only steralized before 1st use and then while we were dealing with thrush.  I haven't changed my membranes at all but I have 3 sets that I rotate through. I wash with hot soapy water each night for the sets that I take to/from work.

  

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• JaimeG183

  November 2012

  I change the membranes on the 1st of the month.

  I have had recurring mastitis so I can't reuse my parts. I have 4 sets and wash them either with soapy water or in the dishwasher after each pump. I rarely sanitize and I pump 5ppd at 7months
  

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