Ideal composition of water for infant?

1.- Boiling (if you wish to know more about this topic)

Drinking water must be boiled for one minute (at sea level) to prepare feeding bottles from the moment that the surface starts to boil.
A minute must be added for each thousand meters above sea level.

If it is bottled water boiling is not needed

We must emphasize in a good hygiene of hands, teets and feeding bottles

2.- Fluoride (if you wish to know more about this topic)

Fluoride content in drinking water

More than 1 mg/l can cause dental fluorosis if it is taken continuously during first years of life.

Between 0,3 y 1 mg/l : the child must not take fluoride supplements.

Less than 0,3 mg/l : depending on the risk of caries the pediatrician and the dentist will decide if further fluoride supplements are given

3.- Calcium (if you wish to know more about this topic)
Drinking water or bottled water with a concentration of Calcium between 50 and 150 mg/l

Is a source of dietetic calcium

It shares 8 to 16 % of dietary reference intakes of calcium in childhood

4.- Nitrates (if you wish to know more about this topic)
Content of Nitrate in drinking water
When feeding infants it is not advisable to use drinking water with more than due to the risk of metahemoglobinaemia