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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My son is 13mths old and since he was 1 month old he has had issues. Started with gas and diarrhea then not wanting to eat and then vomiting. After many nights at emergency rooms including last night I was totally depressed doctors have been running tests and nothing for months and yet the vomiting continues. While rinsing off his vomit covered clothing it came to me the Nursery distilled water that we use for his formula is the only thing that has not changed. We have changed formulas and even have recently put my little guy on soy formula and he is still vomiting I am stopping the Nursery water and will see if that helps. I googled fluoride and Nursery and I suspect that we may have inadvertently caused his suffering. If it turns out that the Nursery distilled water caused all of this I will be pushing to have it removed from Toys R Us stores here in Canada. And likely other action will be taken. I will let you know how it goes. If other parents have similar predicaments they should write in and let us all know.
Oh God, now one more thing mothers have to worry over.
Update, my son is doing very well since we stopped using Nursery distilled water. It appears this product was the cause of my son’s problems. If anyone has questions feel free to email me and I can tell you what I know if this.
robw1035@hotmail.com