How to Clean Enema Bags With Peroxide

Practicing good hygiene with enema bags is critical because the colon is more vulnerable to contagions than the rest of the body. Peroxide is a disinfectant, which means that it kills 99.9 percent of bacteria upon contact with thirty seconds. Exposing all inner, hose and tip surfaces of the enema bag to peroxide for at least thirty seconds should be sufficient to disinfect it.

Things You'll Need

• 30 to 35 percent concentration food-grade hydrogen peroxide

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Instructions

• 1

  Mix a solution of one part 30 to 35 percent concentration food grade hydrogen peroxide to nine parts water. The total quantity of solution should be enough to fill your enema bag completely.

• 2

  Connect the tubing and nozzle to your enema bag as if you were administering an enema.

• 3

  Close all clamps on the enema bag so that the water and peroxide solution will fill it, not flow through.

• 4

  Fill the enema bag completely full of the peroxide solution and close it tightly.

• 5

  Hang the enema bag up as if you were administering an enema. In most cases this is as simple as slipping the hanging hole in the bag over a nail on the wall or a bent coat hanger, which is then hung from the nail.

• 6

  Let the peroxide solution sit in the bag for thirty seconds if it hasn't already.

• 7

  Point the hose end of the bag into the sink or toilet, but don't let it actually contact either of these surfaces.

• 8

  Open the clamps so that water flows down through the bag, through the hose and out into the sink or toilet.

• 9

  Rinse the enema bag by filling it with filtered or distilled water and letting this flow all the way down through it and out.

• 10

  Soak the enema tip and any other attachments in a clean peroxide solution for at least 30 seconds. Then rinse it clean with filtered or distilled water.