Mum shares urgent warning about trendy Air Up bottles as she posts stomach-churning snap of her daughter’s ‘sippy hole’
A MUM has shared an urgent warning for other parents alongside a stomach-churning picture of her daughter’s Air Up bottle.
Sarah Davey took to the Family Lowdown Tips and Ideas group on Facebook to warn others about the bottles, which have become particularly popular among schoolchildren after going viral last year.
“Please check the sippy hole,” Sarah wrote.
“My friend mentioned today that she’d looked in her daughter’s and it was stained with black mould.
“We all wash them but like bath toys they can get mouldy with that type of rubber.
“I checked my daughters and this is how it looked… mouldy.”
“Worth taking a look,” she concluded.
“Bloody hell,” one person commented on Sarah’s post.
“And you’ve got to get a mortgage out to buy them.
“Someone should come and wash them for you for that price!”
“Same as my daughter’s,” another added. “Now I clean it with a little bottle brush.
“Pretty rank to be fair especially the price tag it has with it!!!!”
“Yep constantly cleaning out mould from it! Starts after 1 day,” someone else commented.
“Same with my daughter’s,” another wrote.
‘Absolutely rank. Back on the Milton sterilising fluid.
“They should really provide some sort of brush when you buy a bottle. You pay enough.”
However, others insisted the mould is “normal” for any kind of bottle, with many revealing they’d forked out an extra £4.95 on a brush to clean the bottles – which start from £30.
“We have several air up bottles and you can buy a small cleaning brush from their page to get into all the little places,” one wrote.
“I ordered a cleaning brush when I got my daughters – you can use it on the straw and it goes through the sippy hole and round all the grooves and rubber parts,” another said.