Sorry I've been MIA on this blog! Things have been hectic, so hopefully, eventually, I'll get around to updating! :) It's a long standing promise, eh?
Quick question to parents out there... did your pediatrician ever recommend "Nursery Water" for your babies? Ours did for Jocelyn. So, as dutiful parents, we went out and got Nursery Water for her. I use it in making her food, for her to drink, etc. The fluoride is supposed to help "prevent" cavities.
Well, today, let's just say I, in serendipity, discovered a chemical reaction that lead me on a bunny trail to discover some truths behind "fluoride" water. I usually use regular water to cook with, but for some weird inclination, I decided to try to use "fluoride" water to bake some butternut squash. I covered it with aluminum foil, and baked in the oven for an hour at 400 degrees.
When my butternut squash was done, I took it out of the oven. Voila my beautiful butternut squash, right?! Wrong!! Covered all over my baked butternut squash were speckles of white dots. WHITE DOTS. Perfectly rounded, 1-2 mm white dots. I promise you they were not there before and my butternut squash is fresh.
My first inclination (perhaps my pharmacist-bent paranoia)... is that it must be a chemical reaction! The fluoride in the water reacted with the aluminum foil that was covering my baking dish. I googled "Fluoride, Aluminum" and confirmed my suspicion that I had actually inadvertently created Aluminum Fluoride, which is really a toxin!
That lead me to research "Nursery Water" and it's so called benefits of added fluoride. I came across this article: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/health/10663748/detail.html
There are a bunch of other websites out there that caution the use of fluoride in small young children. Undoubtedly, fluoride in adults & older children help prevent cavities. But for babies? Really? For toddlers? Hmmm....
Just wanted to pass along the information to fellow moms out there! Let me know what you think or what you find out.
Life in our new 'hood...
