To be loosing my mind over DC using bottled microplastic-y water for years

There's microplastics in breastmilk. No point worrying to much about this. What's the solution? Starve or dehydrate to death?

There is nothing you can do about the past. As parents we all make errors of judgement, and you weren't even aware you were making one!
All we can do is our best with the information then available to us. You did. So give yourself a little grace there.

New info has now become available, and you take this seriously and adjust your children's environment as far as within your control. These are all the hallmarks of a good parent.

Our kids will have lots of challenges coming their way. But one of the best protective mechanisms allowing them to cope with these challenges is a supportive and warm family. I think prioritising that is always a good idea.

Stop reading scaremongering click baity headlines studies if you can't control your paranoia and anxiety.

Read this and/or some of the reference material
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_parody

To see how various people became overwrought about plain old water.

At the moment, your kids don't have a microplastics problem, they have a anxious mother problem.

There are all sorts of things that get scary when you consult Professor Google too much without being able to keep things in proportion.

Sure, there are dangers in being uninformed but they pale in comparison to being only partially informed.

Put the internet down and play with your children instead.

But that study doesn't even say what the actual consequences are? In fact it says they don't actually know and this study might help the find out, so the 'if they survive' thing seems extremely OTT. People have been drinking and eating out of plastic for years and years. I'm sure it's not ideal but it's hardly a death sentence.

I lived in countries where the water was not safe to drink so yes they drank bottled water, exactly as you described. Both have lived to adulthood. You are being ridiculous. You need to get this in to proportion, the amount of microplastics will not harm them, it certainly won’t kill them in the next 10years.

And no,I don’t respect a news site reporting on one scientific paper as I have seen too many examples of them sensationalising and exaggerating the claims from the paper.

Your anxiety is spiralling and you do need help with that.
edit: to fix typo

It’s sensationalist reporting - move on, eat healthily, use less (plastic) going forward.

the worry and guilt will do nothing

I appreciated it's hard to let go, but by getting anxious about something you cannot change you are achieving nothing. You are actually actively harming yourself and to some extent your children. Be the best parent you can be! Do you want to be the anxious fretting obsessive parent, or the one who holds their hands up, says we made a mistake, fixed it from now on, and then shrugs it off and is a happy optimistic influence? The latter creates a much better home atmosphere and also models positive behaviour to them for the future.
You probably can't stop thinking about it for a while, but don't actively dwell on it or research it, choose to do and think about other things, and it will fade. And then you know how to deal with the next time you "screw up" with your parenting decisions (because there will be loads of times and you need to be able to move past them).

Agreed. There are so many worries in life. We can walk outside and get hit by a bus.

The water passes through the filter for a matter of seconds and straight into your glass - it's not stored in the filter!

What about a Berkey water filter?

Can you not see how overblown this is.IF they survive the next 10 years!!!!

The amount of microplastic from drinking water from a water cooler will not kill your kids.

I think you might enjoy panicking yourself and are building yourself up and up.

Brita filters are also plastic.

Hi
, sorry if someone else already said this.

Where I live (Balkan country) no one drinks tap water. There is a filter you can attach to your tap to make the water drinkable and you have to get part of it changed every year. Initial cost is €200 and another 100 every year.

Good luck!

Op I have a huge health anxiety problems and I drink bottled water. The tap water in our area of Yorkshire is absolutely disgusting and smells like a swimming pool.

No I'm sure your kids don't have 1000 times the average microplastic levels because many kids drink soft drinks from plastic bottles. I imagine they're worse because the kids are more likely to cause damage to the bottles as they're drinking.

Fuck sake, there are millions of children in the world who don’t even have clean water, try getting a sense of proportion,

Can you get a good filter for your tap? We don't drink tap water (it's another rabbit hole you can go down with chlorine, traces of medication etc in the system plus the awful taste and personally I'd rather ingest microplastics than the stuff in tap water) We switched from bottled to a really good filtration system on our tap, it goes through three different filters. The brand is Water for Health.

Not what you asked, but we have one of these and love it. Do you have anything similar in your country?

www.bibowater.co.uk