Getting rid of pacifiers is easy. Throw them in the trash. Your child cannot remember the thing for very long. If you dread this so much, just think of when you had to go to the dentist. It was probably not nearly as painful as you feared, and once done, it was done.
Pacifiers are routinely germ-laden .
It is next to impossible to keep them clean, although admittedly this does not seem to be a major medical issue in real life. See PedSPAM, October 2000.