From:
ANITA BELL
Date: 2009-07-18 19:32:39 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] arsenic
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Sukie and everyone,=A0 I have always wondered if it would make any differen=
ce to give ferrets boiled water, or spring water.=A0 I know I have read som=
ewhere that distilled is not good for them.=A0 I want to make sure my babie=
s are here with me for as long as possible and I cannot bear to think of th=
em becoming sick one day.=A0 Do you think boiling their water first would b=
e beneficial at all?=A0
=A0
Anita
with my babies Freddie, Tango, Cocoa, Mr.Sissy
and never forgeting my Pepe, Doofy, Sammy, Levi
[Moderator's Note:
That would depend on why you are making such
changes. There has been a great deal in the news
recently about the attempt to raise the standards
for bottled water to as high as those for municipal
water so see recent news stories on that score.
Searching in the News option (top menu) in
http://news.google.com
can help you find such articles.
Boiling can kill some microbes but reducing the
volume of the water may increase the concentration
of things that don't precipitate out.
If you get municipal water the records on that have
to be made available to to the public so you can get
them. On the other hand, if you have well water then
it is only logical to have it professionally tested
regularly.
A World Health Organization paper on the problems
caused by low-mineral or distilled water as the usual
water supply:
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutdemineralized.pdf
points from that:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL8423 ]
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