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URGENT - 15wo given tap water by mistake

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Kerri28 · 15/12/2007 16:54

Please help, today we left our 15 wo dd with my PIL whilst we did xmas shopping.

When we came back we learnt that she had drunk all her bottle, plus 2oz more - to my horror, they told me they used purifed tap water from an inbuilt purifier for the additional 2oz. I am HORRIFIED, they said it was an accident.

Anyway, I'm not here to moan about my PIL or anything like that , but I'm very worried for my dd. How serious is this? And if it's likely to make her ill, how ill, and what signs/symptoms should i look out for?

We always make sure everything of hers is sterile, although she does occasionally end up with dog or cat hair in her mouth, which i'm hoping might have built up her resilience?

any advice greatly received.

Thanks

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DoesntChristmasDragOn · 15/12/2007 16:55

She'll be fine.

Magrat · 15/12/2007 16:55

calm down .. she'll be fine .. totally fine

it's only water and only 2 oz

CarmenerryChristmas · 15/12/2007 16:56

It is not poison don't worry.

coldtits · 15/12/2007 16:57

It really doesn't matter. She is so unlikely to be ill as a result of this I would think she is more likely to be struck by lightening in her cot. purified water not recommended simply because it purifies the minerals right out of the water - meaning the water is not as mineral rich.

I think also, in 10 weeks time, she will be eating food and you don't have to sterilise anything, so panicking about non boiled water seems a little over the top to me.

VVVExcitedAboutChristmasQV · 15/12/2007 16:58

She'll be fine, I'm sure. Tap water is perfectly safe in this country, and as such, is sterile.

coldtits · 15/12/2007 16:59

I forgot to switch the steriliser on when ds2 (the clue is in the birth order) was tiny weeny - he got that bottle made up not sterilised at all!

NatalieJane · 15/12/2007 17:03

I don't think we have ever sterilised anything at all for DS2, though he was breast fed, if he'd have had formula I would have done the botles, but that's it.

In fact, I know we didn't sterilise anything for him because I sold his steriliser on eBay, still brand new in the box

(DS1 just asked me what a steriliser is LOL)

Original poster
Kerri28 · 15/12/2007 17:19

oh ok, thanks all - am just a paranoid 1st timer i guess! will stop panicking about the poison!

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beansprout · 15/12/2007 17:22

Don't worry Kerri - we have all been there! The advice suggests one thing and it's not always easy to just shrug your shoulders when something else happens, especially when it is still early days and they are in someone else's care.

Wisteria · 15/12/2007 17:32

I found it good to remember that the human species survived, despite our knowledge of nutrition and cleanliness only developing in the last century. My dd1 was brought up with a steriliser and great attention to 'detail and advice' but dd2 was more 'dragged' up and she seems ok!

Relax - she'll be fine and there's nothing wrong with coming on here to have your mind put at rest that is the beauty of MN - really wish it had been here when I'd had mine

bookofchristmascarolsmum · 15/12/2007 17:49

Her poo might be a funnier colour for one nappy but that'll probably be the extent of it. My dd was fed formula milk made up with water from a hotel bathroom at 10wks (and not-very-well sterilised bottles) and the only result was green(er) poo.

5goldrings4MONKEYBIRDs · 15/12/2007 19:19

...and you might reassure yourself with the suggestion emerging from some experts that babies are suffering from too sterile an environment anyhow - it's one theory about the huge increase in allergic type illness (asthma, eczema etc) since babies' immune systems don't have enough 'threats' to be able to develop properly. Just a theory though I believe and I'm not an expert - wouldn't want ya to go letting her lick the floor right now of course, though soon as she can move, bear in mind that's what she'll be doing anyway!!

LadyOfTheHollyAndTheIvy · 15/12/2007 19:21

Ssshhhh.....

I didn't sterilise anything at all for DS2, but used boiled water till around 6 months and he was and is just dandy....

BroccoliSpears · 15/12/2007 19:28

I read that the reason you're not supposed to give unboiled tap water is not because it routinely contains things that will make your baby ill, but because there may be the very odd instance (eg where workmen have dug through a pipe) where contamination may have got into the water.

bookofchristmascarolsmum · 15/12/2007 22:32

You won't be worrying about this when you find your dc playing with the contents of their own nappies . You'll be wondering then if they ate any!

Please don't worry in the meantime as everyone's said.

walkinginaWILKIEwonderland · 15/12/2007 22:34

My 11mo eats cat biscuits that he finds on the floor of our kitchen

Don't panic! In a few months time you will be so blase!

fishie · 15/12/2007 22:36

kerri it isn't the tap water that you need to worry about. the formula itself isn't sterile. hence the water must be hot enough to sterilise the milk powder when you make up the bottles.

Santasmissyontheside · 15/12/2007 22:39

lol at the dc2/3/4 being dragged up rather than brought up! dd2 is being dragged brought up very well

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