HELP - anyone have info about toxicity of flouride in drinking water.

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It is a proposal to put flouride in our drinking water. Do not want that for dd1 especially but not for the others too.

Have been researching and flouride is a neuro toxin very harmful to brain and stops body's enzymes from working properly - bad enough dd1's enzymes don't work properly already due to ds - now they want to poison our drinking water. Our premier claims she has no one saying no to it and so want to email with my concerns and research to support it. Have found some but

wondered if anyone had any others they wanted to share with me??

Apparently you can get a reverse osmosis water purifier which removes about 80% of flouride BUT it also takes everything else out too. Or just purify it - takes chlorine etc BUT not flouride.

I don't give J (age 9, AS) tap water at all, on the advice of the cranial osteopath he used to see. I researched it too and it's highly toxic, and as you say cannot be removed by standard filters. I give him bottled water to drink, cook with it and use it for brushing his teeth. Mostly use it for myself too with rare exceptions.

The info I looked at came from www.fluoridealert.org/ but you've probably already come across that one.

Hope you can stop this action. Fluoride is very harmful IMO and putting it into drinking water takes away individual choice. Good luck.

I think that may be the path we will have to go down - that is buying water for all of us - or get rainwater tanks and plumb it into the house.

thanks for that link.

Don't forget fluoride-free toothpastes and mouthwashes too. They're a lot more expensive because there's less demand for them, but no point in avoiding it in water if you're using it to clean your teeth twice a day.

Also, if you steam veg you don't need to use so much bottled water for cooking, so it's not as expensive as boiling.

dds have low flouride toothpaste - and we are big on spitting iyswim. Apparently the research says okay for topical using low flouride toothpaste although dd2 went through a stage of bloody eating the stuff!! I will look for flouride free.

Problem we have is dd1 is a heartkid and they can often have problems with teeth due to medication - so far her baby teeth are fine - just need to wait for adult teeth.

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that there wasn't a great deal of evidence to suggest that fluoride was beneficial for healthy teeth. Somewhere along the line we kind of got brainwashed into thinking it was but it seems to cause as many problems as it prevents. Dental and osteofluorosis have increased dramatically in areas where water is treated with fluoride at source.