Susan posts: "How many of us warn parents who feed powdered formula on the dangers of using *bottled water*?" This warning is new to me. What are the dangers of using purified filtered bottled water with formula-not Nestle brand, of course? I always have bottled with me when in a fluoridated city and I prefer Evian's taste as it contains magnesium. I don't drink city fluoridated water or even cook with it. Besides making coffee in my own hotel room with my own water, I buy my coffee and tea from Starbucks, as they use reverse osmosis filtration. I would prefer to use city tap water, but am intolerant of fluoride in any substance, toothpaste, tap water or pharmaceutical, and 75% of the US is now fluoridated. Newest EPA & DHHS recommendation is that levels be lowered from "optimal" 1ppm to .7ppm. The ADA has gone on record to say if a community has fluoridated water, bottled non-fluoride water is preferred to make up powdered infant formula. Babies whose formula is made with 1ppm fluoridated city water are getting 200 times the dose of fluoride of a breastfed baby daily--due to a total liquid diet for their first six months. Mothers' breasts filter out fluoride no matter the level she consumes. Unfortunately, fluoride crosses the placenta. And their blood brain barrier is not completely formed until about six months. Fluoride is a potent neurotoxin, besides affecting the thyroid, kidneys, pineal gland and implicated in childhood bone cancer. Anyone on this list may email me for an EPA Phd chemist's letter. His EPA union of scientists filed an amicus brief with NRDC long ago in 1986 to get fluoridation discontinued. Judy Effects of the fluoride on the central nervous system. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21255877 http://www.ada.org/sections/scienceAndResearch/pdfs/patient_70.pdf dFor infants who get most of their nutrition from formula during their first 12 months, ready-to-feed formula is preferred to help ensure that their fluoride intake does not exceed the optimal amount. http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/pediatrics;115/2/496.pdf 13. Supplementary fluoride should not be provided during the first 6 months of life.202 . From 6 months to 3 years of age, the decision whether to provide fluoride supplementation should be made on the basis of the fluoride concentration in the water supply (fluoride supplementation generally is not needed unless the concentration in the drinking water is_0.3 ppm) and in other food, fluid sources, *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html To reach list owners: [log in to unmask] Mail all list management commands to: [log in to unmask] COMMANDS: 1. To temporarily stop your subscription write in the body of an email: set lactnet nomail 2. To start it again: set lactnet mail 3. To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet 4. To get a comprehensive list of rules and directions: get lactnet welcome