A long shot but has anyone got a fluoride detector?

[Spedley]

About 2 weeks ago I stopped using non-stick pans and stopped drinking tap water.  I started buying Highland Spring which has the lowest fluoride count that is readily available in my area and I felt great.  Also I lost over half a stone in those two weeks – not deliberately, just noticed having problems keeping my trousers up!

Anyway, Highland Spring water was costing me about £3 per day so I thought I’d buy a water filter which I did (aqua filter, 5 stage reverse osmosis).  I was in high spirits but after a couple of hours I could feel my symptoms returning and now 24 hours later I’m back to normal (not heavier yet though!)

I’d like to test all 3 for fluoride (tap water, filtered water and bottled water) to see if the filter doesn’t work as claimed or if it is not the fluoride that is the problem.

So, does anyone have a fluoride detector and I could send sample to you (a dexent one is a few hundred quid)?

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[The Duke]

There are a few test kits on Amazon, for about £20

You may also be interested in a TDS (total dissolve solids) meter, they are cheap and tell you have much totally crap is in each. The TDS meter doesn’t tell you what’s in it, just how much of something is in it. Thet are cheap under a £10.

[tadka]

I been doing this for years. I was a sceptic when it came to filtered water and mineral water. But it change when one day I made two cups of tea – one with tap water boiled in the old kettle and one with Brita filtered tap water in the new kettle. They looked totally different visually and the filtered one tasted so much better. And I love my strong black tea so I have been buying Brita filters ever since. And I once lived in a house with a system like yours installed, a very good and convenient system. Later it went from drinking filtered tap water to drinking mineral water. Only I prefer Buxton. I find it tastes slightly better than others. I always buy a six-pack, they are usually £2.50 to £3. That’s £0.50 or less per 1.5L bottle. And now I can’t see myself going back to unfiltered tap water ever again.

As to us feeling great I am afraid there is a lot more to it than just drinking healthy water. There are also a plethora of additives in our foods, pollutants in the air the worst ones being air fresheners and deodorants and all fragrances in things like washing up liquid or washing powder or perfumes as they are produced from petroleum. But you made a start and I think we always feel better when we make a start on something good. Also, I find that going for a nice short jog and a bit of light exercise on a daily basis does wonders to feeling better.

[The Duke]

Air freshener are big no no in my house. Deodorants, and most types of artificial smells that come in tins. Or even the plug in type. They just attack my nose, then my head. My mum suffers the same too.

My house smells of detol, (or dog), depending on the day.

I was out at the weekend, at a stag do, and my noise is still suffering from all the “smellies” everyone was wearing. My left nostril is all spit on the inside. In a ‘chapped’ type of way.

A real pita or rather pitn.

As to food ingredients, we figured out long ago the diffence in behaviour shit food has on young kids. It was mainly due to lack of cash 15 years ago (or so) , that we had to revert to eating, cheap cuts of meat and cheap miss shaped vegetables from the grosses. Even when you we got more flush, we still kept with the cheaper cuts and funny vegetables. As chicken air planes, or microwave x or y, doesn’t half have bad effects of children’s behaviour.

Also the women on the news that say they can’t afford to eat healthy, is code for I cba to spend an hour cooking. Noting easier than a “surprise stew. Chuck it in the slow cooker at 8am, eat with bread at 6pm. It rarely tastes bad, whatever you chuck in.

[Ed P]

Try using a Neti pot Steve. (Basically use it to flush your sinuses with salty water). I started using it after getting a staph infection of a sinus following a dental extraction that went wrong. Cheap, and helped cure the staph infection quickly, but most noticeably for me it has halved the impact of pollen induced hay-fever.

It is a bit messy to use (nude in shower job) as you basically pour water into one nostril and drain it out of the other.

[The Duke]

Sound pleasant. I will look into them.

could you send pics of you using it,  so I know I’m doing it right ☺️

[Bob Williams]

The Duke wrote:

Sound pleasant. I will look into them. could you send pics of you using it, so I know I’m doing it right

Yes Ed, please do! I am bothered by having to put my head back to use the neti pot. I have an upper spinal problem, mentioned before, which means restricted movement to my neck. Cannot tilt my head up, down, or sideways much, as No.4 vertebra is mostly carbon fibre. But I have similar nasal problems as described in your linked article, and hay fever. Living in the middle of the most extensively-farmed county in Britain, is an obvious problem. But I will never move.

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[The Duke]

I just wanted to see his naked pics lol

[Ed P]

They did away with the ‘H’ for Horror rating for films many decades ago, but a film of the yellow-green-black smelly staph gunk pouring out of my left nostril would surely have made that grade!

Incidentally the extraction that caused all this has done in a hospital, and when I rang to ask if I should come in to see them, they quickly made the signs to ward off evil, and said keep the hell away from us – go and see your dentist or GP as we are MRSA free and want to stay that way!

Just one comment for Bob., In fact you do not have to tip your head very far back – just enough to pour water into a nostril, you do however have to tip it enough to one side to ensure it pours out of your nostril and not down your throat. I guess it could be done sitting in a chair or on a bed with a towel or something to catch the spillage.

[The Duke]

You could probably lie down on your side in the bath. Can’t be that much mess that comes out. It would just disperse in the bath water.

You could always have a second bath or shower afterwards if you felt the need.

[Ed P]

Under normal circumstances there is very little messy stuff – it is just a water spillage issue.

[Richard]

After a sinus infection leading to a lung infection I was almost frog marched by a consultant to the pharmacy to use the products from http://www.neilmed.com/uk/video.php I have used the squeeze bottle over the sink for the past 18 months or more, easy and mess free. It really helps, I certainly know if I miss a session. I do use their pre-made pack of minerals, which can work out a bit pricey. I guess you get what you pay for.

[Ed P]

I consider myself lucky to have a GP who keeps well up-to-date not only in the latest NHS medical sources but also those areas which I guess could be considered well researched but not necessarily accepted by the NHS into their stock advice. She said something along the lines that ‘many find sinus saline irrigation using Neti pots or similar devices help get rid of staph infection more quickly’.  A rare lady from what I gather.

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