Nursery Water Not Good For Babies – Bottled Water With Added Fluoride Under Fire
As more and more companies use natural, green and healthy labeling to promote their products, there is bound to be some that step over the line. As I wrote about last week, parents are increasingly aware of the role that fluoride plays when it comes to healthy teeth.
While the experts disagree on whether added fluoride in small amounts is necessary, companies as diverse as toothpaste manufacturers and more recently bottled water distributors have jumped on the bandwagon. Now one of them, Nursery Water, is under scrutiny by major environmental action groups.
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Additional action is being taken by the group, Fluoride Action Network, is petitioning Wal-Mart to take it off their shelves.
Meanwhile Nursery Water continues to promote use of their distilled water with added fluoride to parents of infants. Copy from their web site and on their packages continues to advise mothers that using added fluoride is appropriate in direct contradiction to the ADA warning and at risk to their babies’ health.
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I have to agree with Trish’s statement. Fluoride is poison period and no one not even your dentist should use it on your teeth despite what the ADA says. I refuse fluoride for my kids and myself. In addition, some water systems have fluoride in them too.
MC, I am glad you posted this and I hugged it too. Anna http://www.green-talk.com
My baby also had very bad diarrhea from the nursery water and was very fussy.
What bottled water should be using to mix formula then? Is there a specific brand that is safe and without fluoride?
can you give infants tap water to drink under six months old?
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I had no idea- thanks for the info. I suppose breast feeding has one more advantage to add to the list.
What type or brand of water is recommended to take the place of using nursery water?
I read your article about Nursery Water. I’ve been using Nursery Water for my 5 month old since he was 4 weeks. I’ve always been told that small ammounts of flouride, especially for babies under 1 year is okay. That’s according to the American Dental Association. Low amounts of flouride is key around .07 to 1.2 part
Hello, I read your article about Nursery Water. The key is to make sure you give your infant low ammounts of flouride because they are younger. The American Dental Association recommends 0.7 to 1.2 ppm. Nursery Water contains 0.7 or less. When you adevertise articles such as yours, you make mothers very scared that what they have been doing is wrong the whole time. Plese get your facts straight.
Nursery water has only 0.7 ppm of fluoride, this is the recommended level, Please do some research before accusing this company of false advertising.