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CDC acknowledges that mixing powdered or concentrated formula with fluoridated tap water can increase risk of dental fluorosis in infants, recommending low-fluoride water for infant formula. Source · cdc.gov
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I want to share something that should be on every parent's radar, and almost none of them have seen it. The CDC — the same Centers for Disease Control that shapes national health guidance — acknowledges that mixing powdered or concentrated infant formula with fluoridated tap water can increase a baby's risk of dental fluorosis.
Their own recommendation, on their own site, is to use low-fluoride water for infant formula.
This isn't alternative medicine. It's federal public health guidance. It just isn't on the formula label, and most parents would have to go looking for it.
If you're feeding an infant and using tap water to mix formula, this is one of those pieces of information that changes things.
Read the guidance.
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What is this story about?
CDC acknowledges that mixing powdered or concentrated formula with fluoridated tap water can increase risk of dental fluorosis in infants, recommending low-fluoride water for infant formula.
Why did Glen Kerby choose this story?
The CDC says parents mixing formula with fluoridated tap water may be giving infants more fluoride than is safe for developing teeth and neurological tissue. It's not a fringe position — it's federal guidance that most pediatricians aren't surfacing.
Where can I read the original?
It was published by cdc.gov as “Baby Formula and Fluoridated Water”, at https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/faqs/infant-formula.html.
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“Baby Formula and Fluoridated Water”
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