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~ - Subject: Is your water bottle making you sick? PSAI imagine there are more people who use water bottles than we realize. I am one of them. I drink water all through the day and night, when I'm not drinking coffee. I'm not about to buy those heavy bottles of water from the store and lug them in, nope.And yes, I wash my water bottles with Dawn and hot water. It's not so much the bottles but the lids! Yes I wash them too and it wasn't until Sunday night while washing them that I noticed up in the crevices of the lids, was something funky and black in the crevices. I took a toothpick and was picking away at it when I noticed ... wtf? It's mold! Thick black mold in all of the crevices!
Ew! Just, no.
I learned from my mom years ago that once you see mold on anything, pitch it. (She worked for the State Board of Health). Mold spores are invisible and spread so if there is mold on anything you ingest, don't think you can just cut it out. Pitch it. So I looked it up and sure enough.
My new water bottles came today. Thank goodness for Amazon one day delivery!
I'm guessing no matter how much you wash them, or how, they have a short shelf life. But please check the inside of those lids folks.
https://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-2024/reusable-water-bottle-mold-sickness.html
*squick*
Researchers from Columbia University and Rutgers University found roughly 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in a typical liter of bottled water.https://www.npr.org/2024/01/10/1223730333/bottled-water-plastic-microplastic-nanoplastic-study
Some items you might want to consider about plastics and water. They might be lies...When you twist the lid of a plastic water bottle you break the seal and some small bit of plastic remains around the lid...until you take a swig and then it goes into your body. The threads of a bottle cap can harbour residues that allow bacteria and mold to grow, thanks for the great tip sEnsuous redhead.
You can think that every time you use plastics or subject them to physical stress (like a washing machine) a little bit of those plastics will break off and can potentially enter our bodies. Now this is pretty hard to see for most plastics so folks may wonder how we have been able to accumulate on average enough plastic in our bodies for a credit card. There is one area though where it can be readily observed....plastic cutting boards.
Do you have a plastic cutting board? Does it have scratch marks from all the chopping? Where does the plastic broken off from those cutting boards causing those scratch marks go? Probably into the food you are cutting up on the chopping block.
The liquids you put in your body are valuable to your life. Don't short change yourself, use glass....not for cutting boards though.
For those who can't stand the taste of chlorine in tap water, try pouring it into a container and letting it stand for 24-48 hours so that the chlorine can evaporate and get up to room temperature, especially if you are using it to water plants to to keep an aquarium filled.
There it is just some ideas about plastics. Remember you can buy produces that may have all "natural" ingredients, but that may not be worth much when the packaging is made up of bona fide artificial human made ingredients as opposed to glass, which occurs naturally without the intervention of human beings.
Enjoy
Hi there,
You are right on the money with this. and I have to say that we really could be sisters because "I drink water all through the day and night, when I'm not drinking coffee". That line is a page out of my playbook!Anyway, yes. The gunk that builds up in the moving parts of water bottle lids is, for lack of a better term, gross. I go back and forth between not purchasing bottle water out of fear of environmental damage and not using permanent water bottles with lids out of fear of damaging myself. There seems to be and up and down for both sides of the debate. I tend to err on the side using permanent containers. I like ones that are deconstructible and can be run through a dishwasher, then dried out and re-assembled. Another option has been to soak the desconstructed lid parts in a weak bleach solution followed by rinsing and drying. I've not been killed off as yet so continue to do this.
Have to confess I'm one of those people who buy bottled water, cos I can taste the chlorine in our tap water, and I hate it! I don't feel too guilty though....cos I have to confess I don't drink an awful lot of water, it's tea for me, and the bottles go straight into the recycling bin when they're empty and are collected every week.
A very good reminder to separate all parts, clean and sterilize them. i keep one of those containers you can put baby bottle parts in to run through the dishwasher with our various lids and lid parts.i know I go a bit of overkill here but a few times a year I add a bleach to hot water mix for a few hours soak for tea cups and coffee mugs before washing them by hand and running through the dishwasher. I love that our old tea cups and coffee mugs look new again.
This reminded Me to buy a new lid brushwe wash them in the dishwasher as well,
but with water bottles and our tumblers, they get a "pre wash"
I drink a lot of water and wash my water bottles thoroughly. Thank you so much for the reminder.
Nope it hasn't done that yet .. I use a glass most of the time anyway.
ew is right