Fluoride in the water

[hannamaren]

You might think I am crazy, but we used distilled water to make formula because our city water has too much fluoride. Fluoride in high amounts is bad for babies which is why baby baby toothpaste has no fluoride.

If you dont think I am crazy, then, if your town has fluoride in the water, do you give your child tap water? When did you start?

I dont remember the exact number, but some fluoride is okay, my city had more than that.

[Kore]

My mom gave us fluoride drops as babies. lol. I didn't know fluoride in tap water was bad for babies.

On the plus side, my sibs & I have remained relatively cavity free.

[whitepicketfence]

Since we have well water, our pedi actually prescribed a flouride supplement (drops) for both of my kids. He said they'll need to take them from 6 months to 16 years unless we move to someplace that already has it in the water.

[hannamaren]

Yes, a little bit of fluoride is necessary. True.
Okay, good, as soon as her current bottles are done -no more!

[bunch]

I haven't paid any attention. Dd drinks a lot of tap water every day.

[Deleted]

We had flouride drops as young kids and then chewables when we got older. Hmm.

[hannamaren]

I think before a certain age (maybe 1 or 2) too much fluoride is bad, but after a certain age, you need it.

Aside, my H and his baby sister got their stomachs pumped due to too many fluoride tablets.

[atouchofklasse]

Did your pediatrician recommend using distilled water?

[caramia17]

The ADA recommends 0.7-1.2ppmillion fluoride. Most municipal water is in this range. You can check with your pediatric dentist/pediatrician

Baby toothpaste does not have fluoride because kids can't expect orate and therefore can get too much.

A MUCH bigger problem is that fluoridation systems that were put into place in the 60-70s ar breaking down and no one wants to spend the money to fix them, so our kids are getting too little fluoride.

If the fluoride content of you water is too low fluoride should be regulated with drops/tabs and in office dental fluoride treatments.

[dcrunnergirl]

We used tap water right from birth--didn't boil it or anything. Tap water contains fluoride that is good for them, and it is much more regulated in terms of pollutants and quality than bottled water, which is under practically no regulation at all. The pedi supported this.

[drloretta]

Fluoride in high amounts is bad for everyone. Baby toothpaste doesn't have any in it because they swallow it, not just the mere fact that fluoride it bad.

Our child got tap water, whether or not fluoride was in it.

[liveintheville]

We did room temp filtered water. Around 6 months our pedi asked because she would have instructed us to add fluoride drops if we were using distilled.

[Deleted]

I really doubt Toronto tap water is unsafe for babies.

Our city uses floride. We've always just used tap water, but his intake is not very high.

[anna7602]

I never really thought about fluoride in the water until DD started seeing a dentist at age 3 and the office asked us about it. This isn't something that ever came up in my mom group conversations when DD was a baby, so I am going to assume it wasn't a big deal where we lived.

[cjeanette]

I used tap to make formula. My pedi recommended it.

[schrodinger]

Our town doesn't fluoridate the water, which I didn't realize until I had 4 cavities develop in the six months between dentist appointments. SD's get fluoride supplements from their dentist, which is standard procedure around here.

[hannamaren]

Nov 8, 2012 10:50:05 GMT -5 @tokenhoser said:

I really doubt Toronto tap water is unsafe for babies.

Our city uses floride. We've always just used tap water, but his intake is not very high.

In baby 411, the recommended number was 3parts per million or something and we have 5 parts.
But I think now it is fine.

[Deleted]

You're expecting me to believe Baby 411 over the City of Toronto. They wouldn't provide water that wasn't safe. I think the only risk of such a minute difference would be the possibility of those white spots forming on her teeth.

I would guess 99% of the babies on formula in your town used tap water the whole time. Possibly more than that.

[atouchofklasse]

Did you ask your pediatrician?