what age can you give bottled water?

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DS is 8 only drinks water, is it safe to give bottled water when out and about? the other day we forgot to fill his cup up and even in boots they only sold flavoured water for babies and i dont really want to start him on sweet drinks...TIA

he is 8 months not 8!

If you look at the labels most bottled waters have large amounts of salt in them i would take filtered water when you go out or just buy a pure fruit juice?

Don't touch the flavoured waters at all, most if not all contain artificial sweeteners which are bad for everyone, especially children.

As already said its far better for you to take your own with you, but I understand that sometimes thats not an option, you run out etc etc - in which case its far better your DS gets any water, whether it has more salt in it than tap or not -

bottled water is more of an issue if you were making up formula with it as they would be taking in a lot more of it. I would use a plain water and choose the one with the lowest sodium content.

I live in Belgium and here everyone uses Spa (the local bottled water) or Evian to make up bottles, including hospitals.

All my French friends used Evian to make up formula and I give that to my kids. I believe it is low sodium

thanks all

i was talking about this with a friend with a baby of the same age who said she 'just gets a fruit shoot' - she is clearly not a mumsnetter and is also a bit of an idiot

Lucky evian I would not mix a bottle of milk with it, have you read the label digging?

it's what's advised in france, and xref sayanything re using bottled water. it is much more the norm there. I'm sure there are other waters you can use but that's the only one i know is on the ok list.

personally i didn't need to make up bottles with it but after getting a stomach bug from tap water twice so far in my life (how unlucky am I!) I don't like giving it to the kids even boiled

I live in fr. 50% of the time they give some strange advice here;like it's not nec. to BF after 3months! Our tap water is like london's (we live in rural mid fr.) so we filter it. Just found a low sodium mineral water.

I've never got a bug from tap water Did you complain to the water company?

ppear I think if I was living in France or anywhere other than the UK with our safe tap water, (which I suspect is where diggin is Evian would be a FAR better bet than trusting the tap water :)

rockinhippy i don't trust english tap water either; a glass of chlorine anyone?

true - but at least it won't infect you with anything I suppose - filter users here too :)

I gave bottled water at that age when i was out and about and had forgotten to bring water. It's fine now and again.
We use filtered water also.

Thames water both times. We only found out it was the water because they sent apology letters! Very localised problem but enough to put me off

really diggin OMG & heres me thinking we were safe here with our tap water -

you got me wondering now what actual bug did you pick up?? - I ask as I used to live there & have only recently been diagnosed with this sort of thing after years of problems - doubt its the same, but curious none the less

evian water is fine for babies

if out and about with a beaker id just ask some cafe to fill up cup... (have never had anyone refuse yet)

i mean fill cup with tap water :)

It was in the nineties and I can't remember the name. It was a vomiting bug. Only affected those who were in the water area all day. Those who worked outside were fine. Very odd but very unpleasant!!

I know it's irrational as I'm sure cases are extremely rare but I can't bear to drink tap water now

I believe there is an area in Wales that is always being given bottled water because they keep getting a bug in the system.

I second what nannyl says, I've often asked a cafe or coffee place to fill the cup and not been turned down.