Thread: Best way to sterilize water based gear?

What makes you believe you have bacteria in your Gear?

Although, if I even had the slightest suspicion my Gear was not sterile I would sterilize it too.

At any and all costs I want to avoid going to the ER, or my Doc, and have them be forced to drain a huge abscess, and then hope the infection would respond to antibiotics.

umm ok thanks, you've been helpful.


what im asking is can i just reheat it like one would do with oil based gear? say double boil method or oven for instance. im not convinced its unsterile, i just wanted to be on the safe side.

With the oil based gear, you put a pin in the gasket and stick it in the oven for 20 minutes at 250.

You'll lose some water, and I don't pretend to know how much, but it's better than infected gear.

at 250 degrees there'll probably be steam shotting out of the pin with water based, you'd probably lose quite a bit and the concentration would get too high to pin. Not 100% on that but I think if anything you'd have to add bac water or something to use it

add a SMALL amount of ba to the water-based product.... like 1 part to 99 parts... In other words add .1ml - .2ml ba to a full 10ml vial...

So i cant reheat water based gear, i would have to add more ba? fuck that, shits too painful as it is

gettin tossed i guess.

Small amount of BA. 1%. BA keeps the vial sterile.

If you already have BA then why are you worried?

i may of accidentally touched the pin with my fingers before drawing and im a lil concerned that the rest of the gear could be unsterile somehow.

Dude your fine. You are being over causious, which I think is a great thing, but water in the vial should be distilled ( no minerals ) so no source of energy for bacteria to grow, BA also will kill bacteria.

I'd say you are fine.

disagree, I don't think you should risk it. Send me a vial and I will put it under my electron microscope and let you know if it's sterile

Originally Posted by Digitalash

disagree, I don't think you should risk it. Send me a vial and I will put it under my electron microscope and let you know if it's sterile

you have an electron microscope? thats awesome.

And I too think you should toss it if you have doubts especially since its water based.

Or he just wants a vial

Your fine. If you don't think it is fine then why make the thread in the first place?

lol no I don't have an electron microscope, I agree though it's probably fine to use. If you're seriously worried buy some syringe filters I guess