Please Help - Water for Formula on Holiday

[DebMcGee]

Hi Ladies

We're going to visit family in north africa on friday and I've been wondering for some time what water I should use for mixing her formula. I know that milton sterilising tablets can be used but they say use one tablet for 100 litres of water -which is rather a lot of water to sterlise in one go!

So is it ok to use bottled water to mix the formula or should I just boil water for 15 mins to sterlise myself? I would normally be quite relaxed about this but when I went for 5 days, I was ill for 5 weeks afterwards so I'd hate for her to pick anything up.

Any tips would be welcomed!
Thanks
Debx

[jobi]

I used bottled water for ds1's formula when we were abroad........
He was always ok

[em_here]

I would buy a travel kettle and boil bottled water x that way the kettle is new and safe and so is the water x

[Seona1973]

Use boiled bottled water for formula. Try and find one with the lowest sodium content as that is the main issue with bottled water (the mineral salts)

[TDR'smom]

I've used Bottled Water and never had a problem.

[DebMcGee]

Thanks girls for reassuring me! I'll have to get DH to translate the bottle to check the mineral content!! I've got a kettle so think I will boil the bottled water jsut to be on the safeside.

Dx