McCain’s Response to Katrina…Bottled Hot Water for Babies

It’s the rare time when I’m inspired to post twice in one day. My apologizes. I will keep this short.

On Tuesday when I watched McCain’s speech, I remember thinking this line odd, but I didn’t pay it too much attention. I was too transfixed by the Hamas-green background and the strange white flake that kept popping up at the bottom of my screen. However, after I summed up my previous post, I came across the following video on YouTube…and I’m curious, Does anyone know what he’s talking about? I don’t have children (a likely reason I have time to write two blog posts), so I’m not familiar if this is a common practice for dealing with dehydration.

I did a quick Google search and found that

“…a baby who is being breast-fed should be given clear liquids for two consecutive feedings before breastfeeding is resumed. A bottle-fed baby should be given formula diluted to half its strength for the first 24 hours after developing symptoms of dehydration.” (Source: Follow Link).

Since I’ve never prepared formula, I had to do a search for that as well. From a quick read of the instructions, it seems that boiling hot water is a step in the formula preparation process, but the actual formula delivered to the infant is cooled. So it appears that just getting water of any kind with a method for heating the water to a boil is what’s critical, not bottled hot water…to be delivered directly to the sick child. In fact hot water in plastic bottles is known to release poisons that are passed onto the child.

However, if there are any readers out there that have actually used bottled hot water to treat their child’s dehydration, please enlighten me.