Is It Okay To Use Tap Water When Mixing Formula For Baby?
November 7, 2009 by Guest Author
Filed under Breast Feeding Supplies
I heard that it is not good to mix baby formula with tap water, that instead you should use Enfamil water or something special instead. I used tap water with my two girls and they were fine. Is this something new? Anyone know about this? Thanks?
you’re fine…I use a filter…you can boil it…but what did they do back in the day? and the nursery water is just crap so they can make money…ooo it has flouride in it wow I am so impressed lol
It’s fine unless you use well water or live in an area where the water isn’t tested regularly.
Don’t waste your money buying special baby water such as Nursery water. There have been studies done on this showing that the added flouride in that water can cause problems with your baby.
“Nursery Water is a form of fluoridated bottled water that is specifically marketed for babies. The product’s packaging advises parents to use Nursery Water to reconstitute infant formula and other infant foods. Recent scientific developments, however, have raised concerns about the safety of fluoridated water for infants.
Citing a major 2006 review of fluoride safety by the National Academy of Sciences, the ADA advised parents and caregivers on November 9th of this year, to not give infants fluoridated water in their formula or food. According to the ADA, consumption of fluoridated water puts a baby at high risk for dental fluorosis (a defect of teeth that causes staining and sometimes corrosion of the enamel.) The ADA’s statement followed an October 14th decision from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that bottled waters with added fluoride cannot claim to reduce the risk of cavities for infants.”
No need to do anything differently. If you’re overly concerned you can buy a filtering system(one that goes on your faucet or a pitcher).
If the water is good enough for the general public to drink from, and for you to use for yourself, it’s fine for baby. All the hoopla about buying special bottled water for babies comes from those who don’t have fluoride in their tap water, and pediatricians are recommending fluoride supplements – which I think is absurd.
Many kids were who were given flouride supplements since they don’t have flouride in their tap water, are now growing in adult teeth with white patches on them. Flouride supplements were created by dentists to make money and aren’t endorsed. Natural flouride is found in several types of foods, in tiny amounts, and human bodies do not need flouride intaken internally in supplements.
As long as you have tap water that is ok for you to use, and don’t live out in some rural area where you have to pump well water that might be contamiated, you’re fine. It’s been working fine for decades.
Well, you can use tap water for mixing the formula, but tap water some times has lead, rust, and other little organisms in it that will not affect an adult human being because an adults immune system has developed immunities to those organisms. That is why they reccommend that you use some type of baby water such as Enfamil water because it has been super cleansed and those organisms are not present in a high quanity. If you use tap water, boil it first before giving it to your newborn. Would you want him/her getting diarrhea due to all of the iron and rust that your tap water may contain?
THe problem with BOTH tap and Nursery brand water is the amount Fluoride in it. THere is a great deal of emerging evidence that suggest that fluoride is unhealthy for the body. Why do you think many brits have teeth damage? Tea leaves naturally absorb lots of fluoride and drinking that 3-4x’s p/day and you’ll look like Austin Powers.
Always use filtered water thats gone through a reverse osmosis filter because that is the only way to remove fluoride. Oh and yes, there is a difference between calcium fluoride and the silicofluorides that are in tap water, toothpaste, nurserybrand water, mouthwash etc…
I raised my son on a homemade formula made with reverse osmosis filtered water. He is very healthy having only 1 fever of 101.4 for a few hours in his 101/2 month life.
My doctors have always said tap water is just fine. I always poured mine through a filter though because I have always had one attached to our sink.
Many take the precaution of boiling the water or buying special water. In most places in the U.S., that is not necessary. However, if you do wish to purchase water, just buy distilled water by the gallon. It is the same thing as the “nursery water” without the fluoride supplement which if you are formula feeding, you do not need anyway. Distilled water is just the same as boiled water in most cases.
Do not buy bottled water that you would find normally labeled as spring water or under brand names like aquafina etc because these brand’s source of water come from the tap anyway and you would be buying the same thing. Look for the word distilled.
a lot of ppl use ‘nursery water’ but i don’t know why..it has too much flouride for babies..just google it..
if you are here in the usand have city water, the tap should be safe, although our ped suggested boiling it for the first two mos only
well water could be contaminated, but you can get that checked easily enough, or just boil it, but i would rather test it and not have that extra work…usually if it is safe for you to drink it is for a healthy baby…
and no matter what anyone else says, look up nursery water before you buy into that gimmick, and most bottled waters come from a tap somewhere, not from a natural spring as they would have you believe, and i got that out of reader’s digest a while back…hth
Tap water is fine but it does need to be boiled for 5 minutes and then cooled especially for a very young baby. Once is has cooled you can use it as you wish or even keep it in the fridge to use later. Tap water may contain things that might make a small baby ill so it is best to boil it first.
I dont just because there can be lead from pipes and all kinds of other problems. But i dont even drink it myself. We have a Crystal Springs water dispenser. Its one of those services where you rent the dispenser and they deliver the big bottles every couple of weeks. I love it cause it dispenses hot and cold water so when i make my daughters bottle i just do one once cold for every ounce hot and it makes it the perfect temp. Its clean water and super convenient.
Boil it or use filtered water…..that is what my pediatrician said to play it safe. However, I know many a mom that has used tap water and their kids came out alright
I used filtered water when mixing baby’s rice cereal also. Way easier than breast milk or having to boil water each time you need to make rice cereal thinner!
I would use filtered water only because the tap water here in California is nasty i wouldn’t ever give that water to my son. But you don’t need the special nursery water or anything I used to use regular bottled water
my pedi said it depends on where you live.
some places you have to boil the water for 5 mins and other places it’s just fine to use the tap water.
you can buy that nursery water too.
just depends on where you live.
i use my tap water at home. if we go out, i will just try my best to use bottled water, i will only use tap out in public if only necessary. that is just me though. but yes, you can use tap!!
yes you can use tap water, but you should boil it and let it cool to the point where it will still disolve the formula properly, say for half an hour.
My oldest is 2 and have always used filtered water. After drinking that for a long time, I can smell the bleach they put in tap water. Not to mention, the fluoride.
I boiled water till she was 3 months then switched to tap water…I saw it as she’s gonna drink outta the tap one day why not start today lol that and it’s so much easier and I haven’t had a problem with it
I always used tap water and my kids turned out fine. If your really concerned find out how the most recent water tests in your area turned out.
The only thing sensitive to treated water in a home environment are fish, if you drink it without concern there shouldn’t be any issues with mixing in formula.
I wouldn’t hun.
There are high levels of chlorine ion most tap water depending on where you live.
Stick to bottled or filtered
Everyone’s body is different. So we don’t know how a baby will react. To be on the safe side, for me, I would use the best. Bottled baby waters.
tap water is actually good because it contains fluoride.
You should probably run it through a britta first, though.
i use the nursery water but if you use tap water boil it first it should be fine…
I have heard you should boil the water first. That’s what we’ve done with both of our children.
I always use spring water for my two kids.
Uhhhhhh I used tap water for my twins…if you are that worried…get a water filter.
You should boil it first.
no ur suppose to use nursery water they sell it at walmart at least thats what my sisters usues and she has 4 kids.
answer mine? please.
thanks
onj