bottled water

[Jdarg]

I have not thought about the flouride benefit. I thought toothpaste had that in it. do we need extra?

I was raised on well water, so we didn't have flouride in our water (did we?). we had well water here for several years too.

I'm sure there will be some that disagree, but according to the dentist and the doctor, fluoride is very important for children to prevent cavities, and to me, supplementing is an easy way to preserve teeth down the road. Talk to Dr. R--the pills are by prescription only, and our pediatrician was more than happy to help.

I never gave it a thought before moving here- Louisville has excellent tap water, with plenty of fluoride too.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Interesting thought: If kids were drinking water, instead of 3 sodas per day, and brushing their teeth at least twice a day, maybe we wouldn't need so much flouride in our drinking water. :scratch:

 

[30A Skunkape]

I have not thought about the flouride benefit. I thought toothpaste had that in it. do we need extra?

I was raised on well water, so we didn't have flouride in our water (did we?). we had well water here for several years too.

The data demonstrates an inverse relationship between dental caries and flouridation. True, our toothpaste has flouride, but what child enjoys brushing her teeth?

Just as a note, I would encourage anyone drinking well water to have it tested at regular intervals for safety, ESPECIALLY if you are serving it to children.

 

[Teresa]

The data demonstrates an inverse relationship between dental caries and flouridation. True, our toothpaste has flouride, but what child enjoys brushing her teeth?

Just as a note, I would encourage anyone drinking well water to have it tested at regular intervals for safety, ESPECIALLY if you are serving it to children.

spidey gets a good brushing every day by me - and a second half good brushing that he does himself each day. do we need more flouride? and what is the best source? please advise doc!

 

[Smiling JOe]

Just as a note, I would encourage anyone drinking well water to have it tested at regular intervals for safety, ESPECIALLY if you are serving it to children.

What are your reasons for testing the well water? Are you testing for purity, or particular chemicals, iron, minerals, etc?

 

[rdelong43065]

I started getting the Culligan water. I have one of those dispenser crocks that keeps it at room temp. I just re-use a lot of small bottles. Works well for me. The tap water I have here in SRB smells like sulfur at times.

 

[Beach Runner]

Our dentist, Dr. Ratcliffe, told us that Walton County water does not have enough fluoride for small kids, but does have enough for adults. For whatever reason, fluoride is not added to the tap water here. We drink a combo of tap and bottled, and he recommened fluoride in pills AND rinse) for Kate.

I don't know if bottled waters contain fluoride, but kids need to be getting it somehow.

There is some debate about a flouride/bone cancer connection. Maybe that's why the county chose to use less flouride. That's why I started drinking bottled water ... well, that and the fact that there are so many chemicals in the water here that when we fill up the Jacuzzi, the water is turquoise.

But I tell ya, just about every time I turn on the TV, someone is talking about how un-green the small bottles of water are in terms of the amount of petroleum products necessary to produce those bottles.

My solution? I have one of those 5-gallon water coolers at home. The bottles are recycled, and I use a reusable container for my individual serving of H2O.

 

[Rudyjohn]

There is some debate about a flouride/bone cancer connection. Maybe that's why the county chose to use less flouride. That's why I started drinking bottled water ... well, that and the fact that there are so many chemicals in the water here that when we fill up the Jacuzzi, the water is turquoise.

But I tell ya, just about every time I turn on the TV, someone is talking about how un-green the small bottles of water are in terms of the amount of petroleum products necessary to produce those bottles.

My solution? I have one of those 5-gallon water coolers at home. The bottles are recycled, and I use a reusable container for my individual serving of H2O.

I was afraid to say this but we stopped getting the fluoride treatments years ago. The dentists we've all had thru the last 10 or so years all agreed that the fluoride "might" be harmful. So who knows. We opted out because there's already so much stuff we ingest. We even use Tom's toothpaste (no fluoride). But there's always something to worry about.

 

[audie]

i have a pur filter on our faucet because our city water tastes so nasty. we even buy bags of ice because our ice is gross that is made with city water.

 

[Cil]

"Always something to worry about" indeed. I've heard the anti-fluoride stuff but my kids (now grown) always had fluoridated water, oh well, sorry guys! ;-)
I knew our Denver tapwater, being run-off from snowmelt in the Rockies, was very good, and that is the one thing I miss.

When we lived in Port St Joe, every other week we'd hear (usually a day too late!) about boil water notices in Gulf or Bay county. We did go through a period of buying bottled water, but I hated the waste, especially since there is absolutely *no* recycling there.
I began boiling drinking water daily, plus I used a Britta pitcher. If we'd stayed, we would have gone Culligan.
Here on Amelia, the water is so incredibly hard that we had to have a special water softener treatment installed, and we have a filter on top of that.

I always was of two minds about this designer-water fetish we've had going on the past 20 years or so.
Drinking plain water is way better than soda.
But if people are going to walk around toting their water, couldn't they re-use a bottle?