The UK department of health has the following advice on mineral water and babies...
"Excessive sodium intake is undesirable especially in infancy."
"High nitrate content of water is one of the causes of methaemoglobinaemia in infants. Where the concentration exceeds 50 milligrams per litre (as nitrate ion) water undertakers [providers] are obliged to inform the health authorities and professions in the affected area. Water with a concentration of nitrate greater than 100 milligrams per litre is not suitable for infant feeding."
"High concentrations of nitrate and sulphur are present in some natural mineral waters. High sulphate levels of 400 - 500 milligrams per litre may be purgative [cause excessive bowel movements] especially in children."
"Natural mineral waters may contain varying amounts of fluoride and those with high levels are unsuitable as part of an infant's diet or for making up dried foods or drinks because of the risk of fluorosis of the tooth enamel."
" 'Natural mineral water' is covered by less comprehensive regulations than tap water and may contain higher concentrations of solutes such as nitrate, sodium, fluoride and sulphate which might lead to solute overload if these waters are given to young infants."
The tap water that we drink every day contains only chloride and flouride - all minerals are removed during the treatment process. However, with mineral water the composition is unchanged - extra minerals are neither added nor removed from it.
"Check the label and avoid using water in bottles labelled 'natural mineral water' - they are not required to meet all the standards for tapwater and other bottled waters."
What you are doing is potentially dangerous, it may have been OK for other posters but you could be the unlucky one. There is a reason professionals are advising you to just boil tap water, which is held to greater quality controls than mineral water.
By the way you will have to boil the mineral water anyway to kill off the bacterial cultures present in the bottle since nothing is added to the water to disinfect it.
Still I will never understand why people go through the risks of bottle feeding when nature has prepaired a solution perfect for the job - breast milk.
Good luck with the baby, I hope your decision doesn't lead to the little one having problems, but at least you've been warned.
Heh Evian spelt backwards gives you Naive
The UK department of health has the following advice on mineral water and babies...
"Excessive sodium intake is undesirable especially in infancy."
"High nitrate content of water is one of the causes of methaemoglobinaemia in infants. Where the concentration exceeds 50 milligrams per litre (as nitrate ion) water undertakers [providers] are obliged to inform the health authorities and professions in the affected area. Water with a concentration of nitrate greater than 100 milligrams per litre is not suitable for infant feeding."
"High concentrations of nitrate and sulphur are present in some natural mineral waters. High sulphate levels of 400 - 500 milligrams per litre may be purgative [cause excessive bowel movements] especially in children."
"Natural mineral waters may contain varying amounts of fluoride and those with high levels are unsuitable as part of an infant's diet or for making up dried foods or drinks because of the risk of fluorosis of the tooth enamel."
" 'Natural mineral water' is covered by less comprehensive regulations than tap water and may contain higher concentrations of solutes such as nitrate, sodium, fluoride and sulphate which might lead to solute overload if these waters are given to young infants."
The tap water that we drink every day contains only chloride and flouride - all minerals are removed during the treatment process. However, with mineral water the composition is unchanged - extra minerals are neither added nor removed from it.
"Check the label and avoid using water in bottles labelled 'natural mineral water' - they are not required to meet all the standards for tapwater and other bottled waters."
What you are doing is potentially dangerous, it may have been OK for other posters but you could be the unlucky one. There is a reason professionals are advising you to just boil tap water, which is held to greater quality controls than mineral water.
By the way you will have to boil the mineral water anyway to kill off the bacterial cultures present in the bottle since nothing is added to the water to disinfect it.
Still I will never understand why people go through the risks of bottle feeding when nature has prepaired a solution perfect for the job - breast milk.
Good luck with the baby, I hope your decision doesn't lead to the little one having problems, but at least you've been warned.