Making up baby bottles abroad - please advise!

[lardylegs]

Hi! Am thinking ahead to our summer holiday next year! We are going to Egypt and our littlest will be one year old. The tap water will be unsuitable for drinking so I am wondering what to do about making up bottles of formula. If I took a travel kettle and boiled the tap water, would it be okay? (although I don't feel very at ease with this). Presumably bottled water contains too much sodium for this purpose. Should I take cartons of the premade stuff? (and get charged for excess luggage, no doubt!) Mind you, she would be old enough for cow's milk by then....
Feeling very confused!! Any tips? Thanks!

Boiled water should be fine - did that in Thailand for my DS at 8th months.

Or did i use bottled? God I can't remember!

boiled water is FINE

if u wanna give baby water ti drink evisn is low in sodium and suitable for babies.... BUT if your baby is 1year old he or she can have any water anyway... the same as he can have pretty much any food, except whole nuts!

Yep, I'd suggest Evian too, my SIL uses it most of the time now. Last time I went to Egypt (Luxor) people there got very hot under the collar about the travel agent's water advice, one bloke even offered to show me the water treatment works which are "world class", the problem is more to do with different strains of normal bacteria that we're not used to than toxic water.

As Egypt has alot of french influence, it'd be a good idea to google the major french hypermarkets (like Carrefour) and see if theres one nearby, that way you'll be able to get water/UHT milk and so on easily.