Mosticare Bambino Dorme — Cot Mosquito Net
A certified mosquito net for the cot — tested on infants.
- Factory-impregnated permethrin — bound into the fibre, never sprayed
- Three-year effective lifecycle under normal use
- Ships with recycled-cotton carry sachet and deployment card
A WHO-prequalified cot mosquito net, factory-impregnated with permethrin and safety-tested specifically on infants. Polyester mesh at 156-count density, 250 g, three-year effective lifecycle — a clean canopy over the cot, cradle, or bassinet that stops mosquitoes before they reach the sleeping child, without spraying, burning, or diffusing anything into the nursery air.
The nursery is the one room in a European home where "protection" should never be a compromise. A child sleeps twelve to sixteen hours a day in the first year of life, almost all of it in the cot. For those hours, every decision about what is in the air of the room — what's been sprayed, burned, plugged in, or left on — is a decision made on the child's behalf. The Mosticare Bambino Dorme is a cot mosquito net engineered around that principle: a clean canopy over the cot, cradle, or bassinet that stops mosquitoes at the mesh before they reach the sleeping child, and does its protective job without releasing anything into the nursery air.
What this net is, exactly
The Bambino Dorme is a rectangular cot canopy measuring 150 × 100 × 100 cm (L × W × H) — sized precisely to European standard cot and cradle footprints with a full metre of headroom above the mattress. Its mesh is knitted from 75-denier polyester at a 156-count density (25 holes per cm²) — the same WHO-prequalified mesh used across the full Mosticare range.
The fibre is factory-impregnated with permethrin at 9 g/kg (0.9% w/w) — a WHO-recommended pyrethroid bound into the yarn during manufacture rather than sprayed on, so it does not wash out, does not leach meaningfully onto skin, and does not release into the air of the nursery.
Crucially, Mosticare's safety testing for this product family was deliberately conducted on infants to validate suitability for cot and stroller use — the Bambino Dorme is not an adult-tested specification extended to children, it is a net whose permethrin-treated mesh was specifically evaluated for infant use. The Dorme is WHO-prequalified as a long-lasting insecticidal net and authorized for European Union market release under the EU Biocidal Products Regulation (authorization EU 0026815-0000 2035). Packed weight is 250 g inside a recycled-cotton sachet. Deployment is instant: the canopy drops over the cot frame or suspends from a single ceiling point above the cradle.
Why a physical barrier is the right approach for a nursery
The nursery has historically been the room with the worst protection options. Repellent creams and sprays are contraindicated for infants under three months and carefully rationed thereafter. Citronella candles burn open flame in a room with a sleeping child. Plug-in diffusers pump pyrethroid continuously into the air the baby breathes through an eight-hour nap. Coils smoulder. All of these options put chemistry into the air of the room where the child is sleeping — the exact opposite of what an infant's respiratory system needs.
The Bambino Dorme replaces the whole dilemma with a physical barrier: a certified mesh between the mosquito and the child. The permethrin impregnated into the fibre reinforces the barrier at the point of contact, bound into the yarn at a deliberately minimal dose and never diffused into the air, so the chemistry stays on the outside of the net and the air the child breathes remains nursery air.
Who it's for
The Bambino Dorme is for new parents, grandparents, carers, and nursery staff outfitting a cot, cradle, or bassinet in a European home during the mosquito season — from the Provençal longère with the open window, to the Athens apartment with the balcony door, to the Algarve holiday rental where the cot came with the cottage, to a second home along the Italian or Spanish coast.
For stroller and pram protection during daytime walks, pick the Mosticare Bambino Carello. For a toddler bed that has outgrown the cot (typically from 24–36 months, bed sized 140 × 70 cm or larger), step up to the Mosticare Cubo Uno. For a family travelling to tropical regions with a fold-out travel cot, the Bambino Dorme goes into the luggage — 250 g is luggage-negligible.
How to use it well
The Bambino Dorme installs in minutes and lives above the cot for three years.
- Suspend from a single ceiling hook above the cradle, or drape over the cot frame's four corner posts; the architecture tensions into a clean rectangle.
- Fully tuck the hem under the cot mattress on all sides to create a sealed envelope around the sleeping child.
- Inspect the mesh visually at the start of each summer season; repair small damage with the Mosticare Net Repair Kit before the mosquitoes arrive.
- Wash on a cool, gentle cycle with mild detergent; follow the WHO long-lasting-net guidance of no more than 20 washes over the net's useful life; air-dry in shade, never tumble-dry.
- Pack down into the recycled-cotton sachet for travel cots or off-season storage.
- Expect a three-year effective protection lifecycle — typically outlasting the child's time in the cot.
Every claim on this page is traceable to a standard or an independent test.
- WHO-prequalified long-lasting insecticidal net (LLIN) — the Bambino Dorme shares current listing on the World Health Organization Prequalification programme for vector control, the gold-standard specification referenced by the WHO, UNICEF, and the Global Fund.
- EU Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR) — authorization EU 0026815-0000 2035 — formally authorized for market release across the European Union as a treated article, with the dossier maintained for permethrin as the active substance.
- Safety-tested deliberately on infants — Mosticare's permethrin-treated polyester mesh was evaluated specifically for infant cot and stroller use, not extrapolated from adult-use data.
- 156-count mesh / 25 holes per cm² — the structural mesh density used across the WHO long-lasting-net category.
- 75-denier polyester fibre, independently tested — for seam strength, mesh integrity, and wash resistance across the full three-year lifecycle.
Before you decide.
Is it safe for a baby to sleep under a permethrin-treated net every night?
Will it fit my cot, cradle, or bassinet?
Can I hang it from a single point above the cradle?
What about toddler beds?
Can I travel with it?
Mosticare exists to protect people from the world's deadliest animal without poisoning the room in which they sleep. The Bambino Dorme is a quiet, certified way to do that over the cot, cradle, or bassinet — tested specifically on the children it is built to protect, and engineered to outlast the nursery years.