Diaper Pail STINKS!!!

[Shenzhennifer]

My sweet baby's sickly sweet smelling breastmilk poo smell is taking over his room (though he still sleeps in ours - we just change him in the other room). We just use a regular plastic garbage bin with plastic liners and I take it out once a day. But lately with the humidity it's getting so smelly and even when there are no diapers in the bin, it still smells. It's really gross.

How do I get rid of the smell?

 

[mambo]

I've used Dettol disinfectant spray after i take out the garbage.

 

[Shenzhennifer]

I use that too! After it wears off the smell comes back

 

[Little Monster]

this was what I did. he uses the toilet now.

I put his poopy diaper in a plastic bag and then knotted it tightly before I put into the trash bin.
OR most of the time, I simply put it in a plastic bag and of course knotted too and took it out immediately.

 

[0ze_Kid]

Once I realised that the pail smell was hard to get rid of we stopped using it for poo nappies. Just wet ones.

Dirty nappies went into a plastic supermarket bag and straight out to the rubbish.

This kept the pail less smelly.

 

[southside852]

we have the nappy safe:

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and we keep it in the bathroom. it's lined with a plastic bag and our helper wipes it down with clorox wipes twice a week, but it really doesn't smell. there are tons of similar pails out there to store the nappies which only get worse!!!

 

[Nashua852]

I'd recommend the tommy tippee one..but give it a couple of months - they've just updated the design. Mothercare has the info. I need to go out and get another one as we're expecting another baby and the liners for the new model wont work on the old one. It's a bummer but we feel it's well worth the money. We take out our son's tippee once a week, and his room is odour-free.

 

[Shenzhennifer]

Thanks for your experiences. I will think about whether wrapping the diapers or a special diaper pail like Tommy Tippee would be better. It might be better when my baby starts solids in a couple of months, but maybe for now, when it`s mostly those `poo days`, I will be more diligent about wrapping and disposing.

 

[lylee]

nashua852, we also use tomy tippee but our's stink a lot. dh already tried to disinfect it, but the smell is still there. how do you clean your's to keep the smell out? tks

 

[Nashua852]

Lyee,

You should check with the manufacturers if it does stink because it goes completely against what it says on the box i.e 'eliminates all odours..' some of my friends who have it also have not had any issues with it. In fact, ours was a faulty model as the second gripper came off - we called to tell them and they offered us a new one - it was due to my laziness and schedule at the time which didnt allow for a trek up to Quarry bay to claim it, plus the unit works perfectly well regardless. The only time I've noticed a smell is when we take it out and empty it, but generally it stays in the unit itself. We're very lax about ours. We spray it with dettol disinfectant when we take it out (about once a week) and on occasion I've wiped it down with water and bleach, but have had no issues re smell so far.