is a plastic or glass feeding bottle easier to be cleaned?

Is a Plastic or Glass Feeding Bottle Easier to Be Cleaned?

The cleanliness of feeding bottles is vital for child health (1, 2). Because of versatile, light, sturdy, reusable, and cost-efficient, plastic bottles, rather than conventional glass bottles are increasingly being utilized in the reusable feeding bottles. Although the machine cleaning of bottles in the food industry has been established (3, 4), the results may not pertain to the cleaning condu...

‘Solomon’s Bottle’: a Glass Bottle in Tehran and Abbasid Glass Floors in Mesopotamia and the Levant

The article discusses a scarcely known medium of architectural decoration in Abbasid palaces, transparent glass tiles, and reports on the discovery of the largest known assemblage of fragments of such tiles in Tehran, in a bottle of the Glassware and Ceramics Museum of Iran.  The first part deals with the visual and material aspects of the use of transparent glass tiles, based on archaeologica...

Eating or Feeding Our Young: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Penile strangulation due to plastic bottle neck: a surgical emergency.

Use of various metallic and non-metallic constricting objects on the external male genitalia for increasing sexual performance or because of autoerotic intentions is an unusual practice that can potentially lead to penile strangulation with severe consequences. Depending on the type of constricting material, emergency removal of such an object is a challenge. We report a case of a 45-year-old m...

Spoon feeds--an alternative to bottle feeding.

There is no doubt that breastmilk is the best milk for the newborn baby. Even for a preterm baby, biological mother's milk is the best, and specially tailored to the baby's needs. The hazards of bottle feeding and milk formulae, especially in a developing country are well known and require no elaboration. In view of the enormous advantage of breastmilk, even low birth weight babies both preterm...

Breast feeding, bottle feeding, and maternal autonomic responses to stress.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the effects of breast feeding on autonomic nervous system (ANS) response to stressors. METHODS Sympathetic and parasympathetic activities were examined before, during, and after standard laboratory stressors in women who were either exclusively breast feeding (n=14) or nonexclusively breast feeding (n=14), and in non-postpartum controls (n=15). ...