Toxic Baby Bottles?

I just read this article about it. It states that the actual amount of Bisphenol A is extremely miniscule even after high heat for more than 30 minutes... http://www.bisphenol-a.org/human/polyplastics.html

I'd like to trust the studies I read, but I know there are always more studies that debunk studies. I haven't found any more info about the current studies other than what I posted above and what you linked to on Parentdish. For now, I'll go with the study and try to read up more if I can find it. Hope this helps.

I have always used Playtex, Gerber and Evenflo plastic bottles with all of my kids between breast feedings. The oldest is 18. None of them have cancer, none of them are over weight or under weight, none of them have diabetes. They are all very healthy kids...with the exception of athsma (it runs on my mother's side of the family) and ADHD (only half of them have it and that also runs on my mother's side of the family). My mother has had just about every one of her female parts infested with cancer, but back in her day they used glass bottles not plastic. I also lost a grandfather to cancer as well, but once again they used glass bottles back then. The fact is...I don't believe they know what causes cancer. There was a point when they said that milk causes cancer and another time they claimed that carrots cause cancer. They say wine is good for the heart but alcohol is bad for the liver...there's alcohol in wine for god sake. Smoking causes cancer but my grandmother who died in her late 80's was a chain smoker as in she used one to light the other, she died of kidney failure. I would think that if it was that serious of a problem, then they would recall all of those bottles and eliminate the chemical that was the problem. And if you think that chemical is bad...you should take a guess at all the toxic chemicals in the air that we breath.

I was reading about this recently also, but after a bunch of research I found that the drop in liners are made from a different (and alot safer) type of plastic. Here is a link to a page that tells the different "numbers" of plastic (the little recycling sign in the bottem.. diff numbers in the middle is diff plastic..) and it has a section for baby stuff.. The Bisphenol A is in plastic number 7's. This shows there are a few kinds of bottles that arn't super expensive that are still safe.. Hope this helps.

http://www.checnet.org/healtheHouse/pdf/plasticchart.pdf

Bad parenting has been linked to obesity (not bothering to make healthy choices), cancer (smoking around children),and Diabetes (letting children gorge on really unhealthy foods can cause diabetes), I dont really see any of those people being "taken off the shelves." I agree with previous posters- it has been linked- I have a whole website that links water to any of those common problems.

And pretty much anything on the internet is taken with a grain of salt unless it is from a reputable source- and parentdish is not reputable by far.

I remember hearing about this when I was pregnant with my yuner son, who is now almost 5 years old. There have been many studies done, and every now and then it pops back up in the media. The bottom line is that, yes, some studies show that Bisphenol A is linked to various health problems.

But that's a simplification. For a start, "linked" is not the same as "causes" -- there's no medical proof that Bisphenol A causes these things, but statistical studies show a slightly higher incidence of problems among populations with a higher exposure to it. It's a statistical relationship, not a hard and fast medical relationship. It could be that relatively high levels of Bisphenol A (eg. ingesting 20 micrograms per day as opposed to 5 micrograms) is in itself harmless, but high exposure to one industrial compound generally goes along with high exposure to many other industrial compounds, and maybe one of the other chemicals is the culprit.

Now, at very high levels of exposure (eg. thousands of milligrams per day, as opposed to the range of about 5-25 micrograms seen human populations) Bisphenol A is indeed very toxic to laboratory animals. Keep in mind that very large amounts of anything is likely to be toxic. Vitamin A is toxic at high levels, even water is toxic if you drink anough of it. Toxicity at high levels does not mean toxicity at low levels.

You can be exposed to Bisphenol A via loads of different products. In the case of baby bottles, we're talking about bottles made from polycarbonate plastic, with Bisphenol A leaching into the milk. Many things are made of polycarbonate, including microwaveable food containers, water bottles, eye-glasses, CD cases, swim goggles, filtered water dispensers -- if it's a hard, transparent plastic, then it's probably polycarbonate.

While there may be a risk, but there's no scientific certainty about it. That said, I stopped using food and drink containers made of polycarbonate when I heard about this. It's easy to avoid, and I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Don't worry, I was that paranoid too. I actually had a post on here about this very issue about 5 months ago. :) Scary isn't it?

I've heard about it, sadly. Here's a link with helpful info about choosing "safe" plastic bottles.

My last two babies didn't get bottles because now that I'm a SAHM I don't bother with pumping. ;)

actually it has been on the news quite a bit...but i cant tell you why they are still being sold but from what i understand the chance of anything happening are very minimal

Don't believe everything you read on the internet. You'll go crazy if you do. Many environmental organizations make such statements saying they used independent labs but then when you ask for the results they cannot produce them.

Hi A.,

I remember going through this before the birth of my son a couple of years ago. I totally freaked and looked everywhere for glass bottles. There's only one type on the market and they're hard to find. So, I went back and did a little more research and found an overwhelming number of studies discounting the impact of bispehnol coming off bottles when the directions are followed.

The problem occures when parents boil the water in the bottles and then use that same water to mix the formula. You'd have to boil the bottle for a half hour to get a measurable amount of bisphenol but of course no one does that. I did catch a friend mixing formula in the bottles and then placing them on the bottom of a sauce pan of water to heat them up. I showed her a new way of doing it.

I microwave a large ceramic mug for about 3 minutes and then place the bottle in it for 2 minutes and then shake it up. It doesn't overheat the bottles so bispehnols can't escape the plastic.

Bisphenols can also be found in perfume and hairspray which are more easily absorbed in the skin. I don't use either. Toxins are a serious concern of mine and I am careful about what I put on my family's skin. Check out this website:

http://www.ewg.org/reports/skindeep

E.

Because "linked" doesn't mean there is any scientific evidence that it actually causes problems. Things are linked all the time and found later to have no correlation at all. This is one of the newest. They have found that the chemical is harmful but it doesn't get into liquids unless the bottle is damaged. The same goes for buying water/juice/pop in plastic bottles instead of glass. As long as you don't squeeze your bottle over and over to make the liquid come out faster, it's fine. You are better off getting non-sports bottles that don't have a sports cap so that you aren't sqeezing or sucking on it and making the bottle depress. You can't really squeeze baby bottles anyhow, but the answer for babies (as always) is breast feed until they are ready for a sippy cup!
Hope that helps:)