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Originally Posted by McheleM  As a wife to a plumber, I can tell you that bottled water is no safer than tap water. Every year my husband has to take a continuing education class to maintain his license and every year he comes home and tells me horror stories.
Consider this.... They collect spring water and take it to their plant, where they clean it, and purify it. They add nothing to it. They also add nothing to kill bacteria, which is fine if you immediately open it and drink it, but you don't. They store it in their warehouse. Their heat of the summer warehouse. Then it gets loaded onto a box truck, where it's shipped across the US to different stores, again in the heat of summer or cold of winter, who knows?. Then, it's received at the store, where it sits in their warehouse, until time to put it on the shelf, where it again, sits. So there's no telling how long it's been since everything was stripped from your good, clean, spring water, including the good stuff, has been in the heat, how many warehouses and trucks it's been on, and how long it's been on the shelf in that store before you take it home and drink it. And it's been growing bacteria the entire time.
At least tap water has stuff in it to kill bacteria, but your best bet is to filter the tap water as you use it. |
There is more to this as well. Plastics leech into the contents, and most filters do not remove much. Most are either particle or charcoal filters. particle filters will remove particles...sand, etc., within a certain size range...see the wrapper...charcoal filters improve the taste of chlorinated water. Improving the taste does not, however, improve the water. Fluoride added to the water can only be removed by three processes from what I have learned...reverse osmosis, ozonation, and distillation. Bottled water is tap water from 'somewhere' with unknown additives.
An ozonator or reverse osmosis system, even if only used for drinking water, should help prevent additional microbial infection. You can ozonate Gerber water, etc., and health food stores sell ozonated water, often in plastic bottles...which never made sense to me but distilled water is sold in plastic, too. We have bought ozonated water in gallon jugs, too...at the supermarket. I suggest reading the label on the water, strange as that sounds.
I am sorry you have endured so much, but understand what Cody means yo you. Poor baby has been through a lot himself and I understand your worry. I think it will not hurt to clean up his food and water, and hopefully quickly the rest of the answers will be discovered so he can recover from these issues.
Welcome and congratulations on finding your new best friend, the adorable Cody.