Distilled Water Benefits?

PibblesRun

So...I was doing some reaserch on how to help my husband pass a kidney stone, and in that search I came up with an article that the chemicals in tap water can actually cause a kidney stone to get bigger, that you should drink distilled water, actually always! So I did more reasearch and found that distilled water is better for you period and all the chemicals used to clean tap water are harmful to you. SOOO my question...is there any truth to this? Does anyone know anything about it?

ashleybr1980

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TrimAnew

I was always taught to never drink distilled water because distilled water is harmful to your health and should only be used for household activities like mixing with chemicals, or used in your car's engine where extreme purity of the water helps the car. Things dissolved more easily in distilled water, so it's used a lot in chemistry labs.

As I understand it, distilled water has basically 0 impurities, which is unnatural for water because water is polarized. When you drink distilled water, it seeks to return to a more natural balanced state by picking up minerals from your body (like a magnet). In other words, distilled water robs your body of minerals that your body needs, like calcium, potassium, sodium, etc. and so it completely messes up the balance of your electrolytes. Distilled water is like anti-vitamin water, you might say.

Distilled water may pick up toxins, like carbon dioxide as well, so people who believe in " cleansing the body of toxins" advocate for drinking it, but I would be wary of anything that robs the body of necessary "good" minerals right along with the "bad" toxins. To me, those detox cleanses are mostly hogwash.

Plus, if you buy distilled water in a plastic bottle, the odds of chemicals from the plastic making their way into your water go up. I'd rather have fluoride filled tap water (to strengthen my teeth) than plastic bottle chemicals in my water!

I'm no doctor, but I can imagine that distilled water might help a kidney stone because it robs the stone of minerals, like calcium, and thus reduces the stone's mass. If your doctor recommends distilled water for a short period of time, I could understand that. I would be very surprised if a doctor I trusted recommended distilled water for long term use though.

Instead of buying distilled water, just get a water filter. That way you reduce the added chemicals from your tap water, without completely stripping to an unnaturally pure state.

As for using distilled water to treat kidney stones, like I said, I'm not a doctor. You should probably talk to your medical care provider before trying it on your husband. I'd hate for an internet home-remedy to actually make his stones worse.