Flouride in drinking water...NOT.

As I am a concerned parent who insists on giving his kids a daily multivitamin, I am also concerned about the flouride they are getting. We use municipal water with multiple water filters and UV. Given that most do not drink the municipal water, I doubt they make a serious effort to fluorinate it. So, I wondered - having seen countless mucky mouths seemingly everywhere - from what source DO the kids get flouride? Apparently, they don't.

Fluoride content of commercially-available bottled water in Bangkok, Thailand
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... 045.x/full
Article first published online: 18 FEB 2011

For those interested, the supplement Zymafluor is available at the pharmacy.

Just looked at my bottle of Tesco mineral water sitting next to me. Mineral content: Nitrate, Bicarbonate, potassium, calcium, iodine, sulphate, sodium, magnesium and FLUORIDE. 52 baht for a 6 pack of 1.5 litter bottles.

randerson79 wrote:Just looked at my bottle of Tesco mineral water sitting next to me. Mineral content: Nitrate, Bicarbonate, potassium, calcium, iodine, sulphate, sodium, magnesium and FLUORIDE. 52 baht for a 6 pack of 1.5 litter bottles.

Ha! Check the chart. There is more ink in the period after "FLUORIDE" than there is fluoride in that bottle. [note, of course, the letters are pixels on a monitor]

Gentlemen:


IMO:


1. The chemical analyses shown on bottled water in the US, are, in high percentages, completely inaccurate. I suspect they're virtually useless here.


2. Fluoride tabs for kids are available in some pharmacies here. We get ours at a pharmacy down the road (towards Udon) from St. Mary's, on the same side of the street. They work just fine.


BR