How to Drink Drug-Free Tap Water

It might seem sometimes as though your toddler is taking strange, mood-altering drugs or that you'd like to slip your colicky infant a sedative.

But in reality, most parents think twice before giving their tiny tots so much as a dropper full of Children's Tylenol.

So the news from the Associated Press that at least 41 million Americans have drugs in their drinking water was especially disconcerting for parents with infants who drink formula mixed with tap water or toddlers who routinely ask for a glass of water before bed.

"Environmental pediatricians have known about this for quite a while, but there isn't a lot of data," notes Alan Greene, a San Francisco Bay Area pediatrician and author of Raising Baby Green. "But you have to expect things like mind-altering drugs and hormones to have a bigger proportional impact on kids, especially babies." ...