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Pam, thanks for that thougthful reply...... I hadn't thought of using the gas and will have a bash at it that's for sure.... just to see what happens:)

The vinegar i use has brought most of it up to the surface and i know what i am dealing with quite well... also am taking quite a bit of the CDS and after reading the posts on it will use quite a bit more of it in a dose as it would appear that mine may be weaker because of the size of the heated bottle.......and the fact that I didn't go the full time Jim recommends.

However, it still looks pretty good:) For anyone reading this to glean info on CDS and taking it, have to say 'get on to making it asap' for it is just such a relief after mms and citric acid drops It is quite a satisfying process to do it for oneself as well - empowering to say the least.

I can also get the premmie bottles online but I had discounted buying one because I thought that perhaps the non vacuum system they use would render using the nipple system unviable.

However, the drinking cup works by using the vent and stopping up the drinking nipple so could do that anyway.. just thoughts here for anyone else pondering the problem - there is a market for 2 oz baby or glass chemistry bottles going to waste lol.......... no doubt someone will fill it and we will all have no trouble getting supplies soon. (The old bunsen burner routine from chemistry classes in high school would work too)

We also found it harder than one would think possible to get the right tubing and ended up in a pool (swimming:)) shop where they did sell it by the metre. None of the hardware stores had anything but the soft tubing.

Being in the trouble I am, all this has come at the most opportune time, so thanks again to everyone with their experiences and information on CDS. ps - the root canal went yesterday so all sytems go !!!!

I'm gathering that's a congrats for the root canal? Your enthusiasm is infectious!

If the sippy is working fine - then nothing to worry. Our premie glass bottles are like the old fashioned larger glass bottles - just 2 oz, with a silicone nipple, which seems to work fine. It went back to clear, pretty much, after a day or so. The best part about our premie bottles is that they're marked off in 1 oz measurements, so measuring the MMS and the citric acid is a breeze.



I'm a little surprised you don't have the stiffer HDPE tubing - but each country is different. It's used pretty exclusively here for refrigerator ice-making units. Yours will undoubtedly work fine - my first bit of vinyl tubing didn't work at all. I did find a link on amazon.com (the US one) to show someone else - just in case you want it for later- (not that I would think you would buy from Amazon here, but it might give you an idea for there.)

www.amazon.com/White-Density-Polyethylene-Tubing-Length/dp/B000FN3K04/ref=sr_1_2?s=industrial&ie=UTF8&qid=1324562654&sr=1-2

And yeah, for me after NOT being able to do the MMS, CDS has been such a blessing!

NOTE: My original tubing link was incorrect - it showed 3/8"ID and should have been 1/4" ID and 3/8"OD - The new link is correct.

Gads Pam - I hope it's congrats for removing the rotten thing, thanks......... I feel that nothing thrown at me will ever faze me again. Never a fan of pain I am getting an awful dose of it one way or the other... the extraction was nothing compared with the pain of dragging out skin cancer let me say:(

I had a go at the gas this afternoon and the stinging was pretty awesome ... as bad as the vinegar (which is only as bad as the black salve anyway, but works far better- mine WAS from a reputable source here but it didn't find this cancer).... a couple of hours later it (the gas) is bringing up the underlying cancer I think....... there are more black patches coming than were there before i did it let's say.

this stuff comes up first as a light grey patch then looks a bit like a sore and then you see the black heart of the thing emerge. An interesting process and the gas has brought up more black....

we did find the tubing eventually but not at a hardware shop - refridgeration shops had it but attached to parts and not by the metre and it was at the pool shop we did find it.

Do your bottles have the plastic screw piece that anchors the teat or are they the kind that pull over the bottle neck Pam? Just a thought if they would work too.......

off to attack Xmas:) such a rotten time to be fretting about this stuff, but I am documenting the progress with pics and will have either a great cure for the forum or back to the drawing board!

Hope Jim sees this...... WE LOVE CDS!!!!!!! THANKS JIM!!!!!!
and a happy Xmas to everyone here:)

For some reason the pic you posted of the bottle didn't come up before i typed my long winded article Pam.... I see it does have the screw top so please ignore the silly questions:) thanks for your imput here - very grateful.