*EDIT There are many emails, tweets and comments so I”ll edit to add that we do not have fluoride in our water. So, Butterlump gets no fluoride at all.
**EDIT EDIT Also, Aaron’s Pediatrician has recommended and prescribed fluoride drops.
To keep a long, ranty story short, Jonathan and I are torn on a couple of things regarding our little baby butterlump. It’s shocking that Jonathan and I in disagreement about something, huh?
Right now the debate is giving him fluoride drops daily.
I am all for it, Jonathan is against it.
It’s really quite odd that I am the liberal of the family but my uber conservative husband is almost always the one holding up the hippie-tree-hugging herbal/alternative treatment as the end all be all.
Seriously…it’s weird.
Jonathan doesn’t think that flouride is meant to be ingested.
I want to add it to the city’s water supply (and voted for that but was shot down).
I used fluoride drops with my first and did not with my second. I know that the genetics are different as James is from my first marriage but seriously, his teeth are MUCH better than his brother’s. And I haven’t ever noticed any negative fall out from them.
Gah.
Does anyone else struggle with this? Disagree? Pro or con?
I am not staking my cross on any hill to die here, I am really looking for information and input. I don’t make important decisions just based on the Internet but it is a HUGE resource of information and thought for me.
So, while I don’t know if it will change my mind or not (and I guarantee it will NOT change Jonathan’s. Heh.) I might find how much of a deal this is to me with more discussion.
So…whaddya think, peeps?
And while you’re pondering…Butterlump turned 8-months-old yesterday!
Where has the time gone?
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The answer should be “no”, and in fact you should stop giving your child water that has been fluoridated, too. I could type up a bunch of crap about this, but really, this video pretty much sums it up nicely…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLgKeHOgneQ
While water sources may be “optimally” fluoridated, water is used for many food processing techniques (like making cereals, baked goods, etc) which leaves higher than “optimal” doses of fluoride in the food. So, drinking fluoridated water and eating a standard american diet of bread, fruit juice, soda’s, etc…you’re getting a fluoride overdose.
Fluoride was used to treat HYPERthyroidism in the 50′s, but stopped since it was deemed too toxic. Scientists and Dentists got this bright idea to add fluoride into the water since they noticed people with dental fluorisis staining on their teeth never seemed to get cavities. There was also (conveniently) a huge demand to get rid of fluoride wastes from companies using it for various processes (like making fertilizer). So, many government thought they were killing two birds with one stone … let’s get rid of fluoride WASTE by dumping it into the public drinking water.
Later studies contradict earlier ones. Fluroide does make denser bones…but they are also more brittle…hence a bunch of older people breaking their hips now. Fluoride embeds itself in soft tissue as well as bone, and messes up thyroid metabolism, pinneal gland melatonin production (disrupts sleep cycle), messes with the brain and could be the reason ADHD/Autism/Schizophrenia is on the rise, and as a general poison it indiscriminantly wipes out probiotics in the digestive system. This has led to a population that’s getting fatter, sicker, and more insane as time goes by. Reason being, fluoride transfers from the mother to unborn infant during the 9 months gestation period. So, kids are being born pre-poisoned with fluoride. Then mothers do stupid things like give their kids fluoride drops because some dumb-ass dentist told them so, and later they’re having to pay a FORTUNE to the dentist to correct crooked & stained teeth.
I got too much fluoride as a kid. I’ve never had a cavity in my life. I’ve also had to go through a NIGHTMARE of OTHER dental issues, because my jaw didn’t set right, my baby teeth didn’t pop out like they should have, etc, etc. I’ve had to spend a FORTUNE on dental issues…but I don’t have cavities. Whoopee.
I also have partial autism, which makes me a social introvert and isolationist. I don’t form relationships. I don’t have a sex drive. I don’t date. I like to be left alone.
I also have very little energy. My doctor runs blood panels, they come back normal, so obviously I must be ok. Meanwhile, I barely have enough energy to go to work every day.
I traced a lot of my issues back to fluoride. I stopped drinking fluoridated water (switched to distilled drinking water, like Culligan and Ozarka), and while some of my issues got better, I’m still stuck with some. I’ve been permanantly damaged, all because I got too much fluoride as a kid growing up.
Now then… YOU have the opportunity to stop this cycle. The only reason fluoride helps with dental caries is because it poisons the plaque-causing bacteria. You know what? You can prevent plaque causing bacteria by stop giving your child processed carb foods, instead making sure they eat more vegetables and protein as they grow up. Fluoride in water was basically a huge band-aid to make up for the fact that the American diet has way too much flour and sugar in it.
Stop giving your kid drops. Stop giving them fluoridated water. Stop letting them brush their teeth with fluoridated tooth paste. As for food, you’re sort of stuck with that, but the less processed it is the better.
Early humans evolved without fluoride in THEIR water, and they didn’t have dental issues … until grains started being the dominant food source in their diets. Neanderthals have very pretty teeth (meat, vegetable & nut diet). Mayans and Aztecs don’t (grain diet). This is a case where the doctor, dentists or whomever after WWII thought they were smarter than they really were, made some snap decisions, and it’s been screwing up peoples’ lives ever since.
I am totally blown away by people commenting about how they are EXCITED about fluoride in the water, and one woman wanting to have PROZAC added to the water. Have you people all lost your minds? On my water quality report, it states Fluoride is a contaminant, an additive from aluminum and fertilizer processing. All you parents who give your children fluoride drops and spring water with added fluoride for babies SHOULD Be LOCKED UP IN JAIL WITH THE RAPISTS AND PEDOFILES FOR LIFE. You people really blow my mind. But hey go ahead, if you enjoy consuming industrial toxic waste. Yea, go make your children be experimental guinie pigs. What fools you people are.
FLUORIDE FOR BABIES! Are you insane? Think about it. Babies teeth are going to fall out anyway. But HEY, if you want to give your babies industrial toxic waste from aluminum and fertilizer processing, then by all means destroy your babies future and lower their IQ. I am AMAZED at the level of absolute stupidity some of you people have. You give new meaning to the word SUPER IDIOT. LOL Fluoride? If you like eating chemical waste. Morons…
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This has really helpful, new information from the CDC regarding fluoride.
http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/fact_sheets/cwf_qa.htm
LOL you actually want fluoride in your water?
Are you not aware of the damages it causes? Your bones, organs, and enzymes are all being harmed every time you ingest factory-made, toxin full, industrial fluoride. (the fluoride you’re talking about)