All of our Dreamsweet Organic Medicinal Teas are safe to drink while breastfeeding. If you have any concerns about specific tea ingredients, please contact us.

Although you should be careful when using any herbal supplements or teas while breastfeeding, click here for reasons why peppermint tea might be helpful for nursing moms.

Dreamsweet's Maternitea was made especially for pregnancy and many of our other teas are also safe to drink during pregnancy. We are also happy to make you a pregnancy safe version of any of the teas that we offer. Please contact us if you would like us to do so.

Although heating will destroy the enzymes, microörganisms and some of the vitamins which are found in Kombucha Tea, many of the other components remain stable.

Some people only drink 4 ounces once or twice daily others are drinking 30 ounces or more per day without any ill effects.

Michael Roussin, Director of the Kombucha Consumer Research Group ™ says: "Until today (4 Jan 1996), I would have recommended that Kombucha not be given to pre-puberty children. The reasons are iffy, and propounded in several books and papers, but the basis for those iffy suggestions are not valid, therefore, the suggestions are not valid either. In short, there is no reason (except concerns about caffeine) not to give Kombucha to children.

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occasional alcoholic drink is not harmful to the baby. If you are feeling the effects of alcohol, there is probably enough in your bloodstream to pass along to the baby through your milk. A good rule of thumb is no more than one drink within the hour of feeding your baby.

While your child won't get FASD if you drink while breastfeeding, you can still pass alcohol along through the breast milk - and that alcohol can still affect your child.

Many diabetics report they have had absolutely no problems drinking it; while others may need to reduce their intake of sugars, or adjust their insulin to compensate. One way to reduce the sugar content is to ferment for a longer period of time. A recent lab test done confirmed a sugar value of 1.65 grams in one ounce of Kombucha Tea that had been fermented for 15 days.

Since lactating mothers pass on substances through the breast milk to their infants, most people feel that it would be a good idea to wait until the child is finished breast-feeding before starting to drink Kombucha Tea. However, whether or not to drink Kombucha while breast-feeding, has to remain a personal decision for the mother to make. Remember, that the caffeine is not used by the colony while fermenting, and remains in the finished Kombucha Tea.

Some new Kombucha drinkers experience intestinal gas. It generally lasts a week or so then stops. However, you can reduce the amount of tea you consume, to help relieve the problem.

Please refer to the brewing information on the label of the jar or on the website. There are different recommendations depending on which tea you are drinking.

Absorb Plus has not been tested on pregnant women. However, none of the ingredients contained in Absorb Plus are contraindicated for pregnant or nursing women. Jini Patel Thompson (the formulator of Absorb Plus) consumed 1-2 shakes per day off and on during both her pregnancies and whilst breastfeeding.

No, drinking during pregnancy is dangerous. Alcohol can have a number of harmful effects on the baby. The baby can be born mentally retarded or with learning and behavioral problems that last a lifetime. We don't know exactly how much alcohol is required to cause these problems. We do know, however, that these alcohol-related birth defects are 100-percent preventable, simply by not drinking alcohol during pregnancy.

No, alcohol use slows reaction time and impairs judgment and coordination, all skills needed to drive a car safely (2). The more alcohol consumed, the greater the impairment.

Yes. It would be extremely difficult for a bioterrorist to contaminate our drinking water supplies to cause widespread illness. Huge amounts of water are pumped daily from our reservoirs, most of which is used for industrial and other purposes. Anything deliberately put into the water supply would be greatly diluted. Poisoning water supplies would require truckloads of biological or chemical agents that are difficult to produce and relatively easy to detect.

Different treatment is used depending on the source of your water. Ground water taken from wells has been filtered through rocks, so it is usually quite free of particles. It can still contain chemicals and organic matter that must be taken out, though. If your water comes from a surface-water source, such as a river, some work must be done to get rid of particulate matter.