One less thing to wonder about.
"One drop, two minutes."Put a drop of your milk on a strip and read the pad against the chart. It's for the evening you had a glass of wine at a wedding and would rather check than lie awake wondering.
Retail ₹1,199 · Pre-book ₹899, 25% off · The founding price, held until we ship
Alcohol in milk tracks alcohol in your blood
Alcohol passes freely between your blood and your milk, so the level in milk rises and falls roughly in step with the level in your blood. As your body clears the alcohol, the milk clears too, without you doing anything.
That last point is the one worth holding onto: time is the only thing that lowers it. Pumping and throwing milk away doesn't speed it up, because the milk left behind simply re-equilibrates with your blood. Expressing before you drink, so there's a stored bottle for later, is useful. Expressing afterwards to "clear" yourself isn't.
The usual guidance for an occasional drink is to wait around two hours after it before feeding, and longer if you've had more than one. This strip doesn't replace that advice. It just gives you something to look at, at one moment, if you'd rather not rely on arithmetic and guesswork at the end of a long evening.
- Milk mirrors blood, the two fall together
- Time clears it, pumping and dumping does not
- Express beforehand if you know you'll be drinking
- Roughly two hours per drink is the common advice
What this strip is, and firmly isn't
This is the most important section on the page, so it sits above the specs rather than below them.
A screening aid, never a clearance to feed
A strip reads one sample, at one moment. It detects alcohol above a threshold, below that threshold it shows nothing, which is not the same as there being nothing there. A result that looks clear is not a medical opinion that your baby is safe, and we won't describe it as one.
It also cannot account for how much you've had, how recently, your size, whether you've eaten, or how quickly you personally clear alcohol. If you've had more than an occasional drink, use the stored milk you expressed earlier and don't test your way around it.
And the part that has nothing to do with milk: if you are drunk, the risk to your baby is you, not your milk. Don't co-sleep or share a sofa after drinking, and make sure someone sober can take over. That guidance stands regardless of what any strip says.
If you're worried about how much you're drinking, or you feel you need a drink to get through the day, please talk to a doctor or health visitor. That's a genuinely common thing to need help with in the first year, and it's help worth asking for.
What's actually in the box
| Strips | 8 individually wrapped single-use test strips. |
|---|---|
| Sample | A few drops of freshly expressed milk. Milk that's been refrigerated or frozen isn't reliable for this. |
| Reading time | Around two minutes. Read against the printed chart in good light, and discard the strip afterwards. |
| Detects | Alcohol present in the sample above roughly 0.02%. Below that it reads clear, which means "below the threshold", not "none". |
| Shelf life | Printed on each wrapper. Keep dry, at room temperature, in the sealed pouch until use. |
| In the box | 8 wrapped strips, a colour chart card, and the limits above printed in full. |
| Price | Retail ₹1,199 · Pre-book ₹899 |
Four steps
- Express a few drops of milk into a clean container. Fresh, not from the fridge.
- Open a strip and wet the pad thoroughly with the milk.
- Lay it flat and wait the time printed on the wrapper, about two minutes.
- Compare the pad with the chart in good light. Read it once, at the stated time, and throw the strip away.
Reading a strip much later than the stated time gives a misleading result. So does using a strip from a pouch that's been open.
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