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[-] Quokka@quokk.au 7 points 1 month ago

Babies, babies can't have tap water.

~6 months you start with cooled boiled water.

~12 months you can move onto tap water.

[-] rijom@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

That also depends on where you live and on the quality of the tap water. Doctor here now recommend you to use tap water also for formula - without boiling it first.

[-] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Across Europe there's different recommendations in every country, and no evidence of different illness/mortality rates related to the recommendation.

France says tap water is safe for all ages.

If you're in the US, I totally get why you might want to keep boiling your water, but remember that boiling doesn't remove lead.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

The US has a water system effectively comparable to the ones across Europe, FYI. That includes lead levels, since it wasn't just the US that used lead pipes.

In most circumstances lead pipes are safe to replace with different materials as part of routine maintenance. It's only very notable incidents where things go wrong that have driven a push for greater haste, since it highlighted the consequences of things going wrong.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

wait, how did babies back in the day (~1000s years ago) survive?

[-] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

You have 10 or 15 kids and three or four of them will tough it out enough to grow up. There's a reason the population exponentially exploded around the time antibiotics and vaccines were invented.

[-] Absolute_Axoltl@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago
[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

By and large, they didn't

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago
[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 month ago

Make baby drink boiling water so they're cool. Got it.

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