Distilled water... BIG MISTAKE.
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I've been drinking it for months and feel fine and am not dehydrated nor mineral deficient . I am in FB groups with folks who have been drinking Distilled Water for 30+ years; I think if they were going to die from it, they would have by now.
It doesn't 'leech minerals' from your body. It is exactly the same as rainwater. I buy the Pureau water from Woolies, but when I move to the bush I will distil my own.
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There is a difference between distilled and what is called double distilled or de-ionized water ( there is a long chemical explanation for this, if you have trouble sleeping look it up on line)
Long story short, de-stilled de-ionized water is bad for your systems and water in this state will pull minerals, etc. from the environment. I work in a laboratory setting and we cannot us de-ionize or distilled water in any kind of metal equipment ( incubators, water baths) as it will corrode the metal.
Certainly not something you want in your system.
If you feel like you need to drink it make sure you are drinking only distilled water, not distilled de-ionized water.0 -
So...I understand that one would not want to drink solely distilled water all the time or for a prolonged period of time --- but why would it make someone feel sick just by drinking it once? Just wondering how it could have that serious of an effect when I'd imagine you'd need to be drinking only distilled water for a significant amount of time to have any ill-effects?
I use distilled water in my neti pot and to make beer....I don't like the taste of distilled water.0 -
Distilled water is way too pure and made for things like appliances or science related things. I worked at a pet store and every pet we sold we had to be very clear to tell the owner's never to use distilled water. All the vital minerals are removed. Bottled water, filtered water, all ok. Never distilled.0
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If you consume no other ions while drinking distilled water the water may be dangerous as that will pull water into cells which may be dangerous (your body does this to dilute the intracrellular fluid because drinking pure water dilutes your extracellular fluid).'
So if you're consuming minerals from other beverages or things like food, then drinking distilled water is not overly a concern. It will of course not be recommended by the supplier as there is the potential for an igmo to fast while just drinking distilled water and end up killing themselves, while this is less of a concern with something like tap water that likely has some dissolved mineral content.
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Interesting. We keep distilled water in the house for my husbands CPAP and for our sump pump battery back up. So it has it's uses, but I don't drink it. Might start using it for my neti pot.0
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It's not a problem if your hydrated from the tap as well. As the name says, "distilled". Basically that means it's been boiled and the steam re-condensed. (Yup, like whiskey). At that point it should be inert. I would lean more towards there being a sickness already there exaserbated by the dehydration. I am not a doctor or scientist though, just someone who's consumed lots of distilled water without noticing anything. The company would be shut down if they were knowingly marketing and selling a dangerous substance without a warning label.
^^This
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I used with my son's formula when he was first born!0
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I prefer the taste of reverse osmosis water, but I've been drinking distilled water since I was a child and I've never had anything happen to me.
Distilled was way safer for me than the public water supply, our municipal water supply is down river from catfood factories.
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^ umm...so you're assuming they are not allowed to do anything to treat that water?0
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Stop bumping zombie threads.diannehunt944 wrote: »I've been drinking it for months and feel fine and am not dehydrated nor mineral deficient . I am in FB groups with folks who have been drinking Distilled Water for 30+ years; I think if they were going to die from it, they would have by now.
It doesn't 'leech minerals' from your body. It is exactly the same as rainwater. I buy the Pureau water from Woolies, but when I move to the bush I will distil my own.
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Oh well might as well roll with it.
Dont know about drinking it but I use it for making pickles helps them come out real crisp.0 -
sheepotato wrote: »I prefer the taste of reverse osmosis water, but I've been drinking distilled water since I was a child and I've never had anything happen to me.
Distilled was way safer for me than the public water supply, our municipal water supply is down river from catfood factories.
you do realize that any plant/factory that discharges into a river must meet EHP effluent criteria and that any plant/factory that intakes for consumption must also treat their water to certain standards for safety and meet min/max criteria.
This is not new- nor excitable. Every water you consume everywhere was taken from a source that is or was up or down stream from some other source.
They treat the water coming and and out of facilities- it's fine.
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sheepotato wrote: »I prefer the taste of reverse osmosis water, but I've been drinking distilled water since I was a child and I've never had anything happen to me.
Distilled was way safer for me than the public water supply, our municipal water supply is down river from catfood factories.
you do realize that any plant/factory that discharges into a river must meet EHP effluent criteria and that any plant/factory that intakes for consumption must also treat their water to certain standards for safety and meet min/max criteria.
This is not new- nor excitable. Every water you consume everywhere was taken from a source that is or was up or down stream from some other source.
They treat the water coming and and out of facilities- it's fine.
I didn't realize this was a necro'ed thread when I added my response.
Of course I realize they treat the water, but they also send out a report to the users once a year with a list of contaminates. I know that they are measuring contaminants in Parts per Million on the report, so it's not a very high concentration of anything, but as a preference I do not drink the local tap water. It's nothing new, and I realize all bottled water comes from a municipal source before it's treated and packaged.
I was only saying I would drink distilled water over my current municipal water anyday. Maybe it's just seeing what the river looks like before it's treated, or it's proximity to the nuclear power plant that stores it's waste on site. Just something about it gives me the heeby jeebies about drinking it.
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Drinking slightly acidic or alkaline water will do nothing for you. Your body is excellent at buffering things so that your blood pH remains stable. Distilled water can pull minerals and salt out of body if you drink too much of it, that it why is it is not recommended that you drink it.0
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soapsandropes wrote: »Drinking slightly acidic or alkaline water will do nothing for you. Your body is excellent at buffering things so that your blood pH remains stable. Distilled water can pull minerals and salt out of body if you drink too much of it, that it why is it is not recommended that you drink it.
It's also why drinking out of a fresh stream tastes so delicious. We're craving the minerals.
Which for the non-chemical-pronouncers means it's toxic! Fancy that.0 -
Distilled water is pure H2O and doesn't have any other soluble content in it. Drinking water always have some other important water minerals which is important for our body. Distilled water can be considered as hard water.0
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uh oh... the only water provided in my office is gallons of distilled water... O_o0
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Regular water has a bunch of ions and such in it. Distilled water has had all of these removed. These ions move from high amounts to low amounts, so basically, distilled water is leeching these ions from your body in order to balance the concentrations.
No. Distilled water has lots of ions in it. De-ionized water has the bulk of ions removed, many of which come back once exposed to the atmosphere.0 -
This is why I laugh at the people that say tea or coffee (you know, water with something else in it) doesn't count as water. So I guess for them, only distilled water counts as water.0
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Okay guys I had to commet on this one...I drink Kangen water ...it is alkaline water and much better for you...most all of the bottled waters are acidic and that is where sickness and disease live...sickness and disease cannot live in an alkaline body.....the human body is made up of approximately 70 % water...so water plays a very important role in our lives...Change your water..Change your life
Sickness and disease can live quite nicely in an alkaline body. And the idea that you can change your body's pH by eating or drinking certain foods is laughable.
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I used to make my kids formula with distilled water when they were babies. Never once did the doctor tell me to avoid distilled water. She preferred I use the distilled water over tap water. There are no chemicals in distilled water, and there aren't any used in the process of distillation. This is ridiculous!0
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Okay guys I had to commet on this one...I drink Kangen water ...it is alkaline water and much better for you...most all of the bottled waters are acidic and that is where sickness and disease live...sickness and disease cannot live in an alkaline body.....the human body is made up of approximately 70 % water...so water plays a very important role in our lives...Change your water..Change your life
Seriously? The human body maintains a strict pH between 7.35 and 7.45. There's nothing you can do to change it. Also, sickness and disease does not live in acids, alkalines will kill you far faster (lye, extremely deadly, and it's a base.) Also, all of the nutrients you require to stay alive are acids. Protein? Amino ACIDS. Fat? Fatty ACIDS.
Please take some time and actually lear a little bit about biology before you blindly fall for any other marketing gimmicks.0 -
diannehunt944 wrote: »I've been drinking it for months and feel fine and am not dehydrated nor mineral deficient . I am in FB groups with folks who have been drinking Distilled Water for 30+ years; I think if they were going to die from it, they would have by now.
It doesn't 'leech minerals' from your body. It is exactly the same as rainwater. I buy the Pureau water from Woolies, but when I move to the bush I will distil my own.
Distilled water and rainwater are nowhere near alike. Rainwater has many, many dissolved solids in it. Ever heard of acid rain?0 -
UsedToBeHusky wrote: »I used to make my kids formula with distilled water when they were babies. Never once did the doctor tell me to avoid distilled water. She preferred I use the distilled water over tap water. There are no chemicals in distilled water, and there aren't any used in the process of distillation. This is ridiculous!
The formula would contain all the necessary minerals and whatnots, so there's no need to have those present in the water. And as the tap water could potentially be contaminated, the doctors would obviously tell you to use a 100 % safe source instead.
That has nothing to do whether or not one should drink pure distilled water or not. There's no harm in drinking it. Nor are there any mysterious benefits to be had. If your local tap water is potable, I wouldn't bother with anything else.0 -
I did not think it was possible to have this much misinformation packed in to so tight a place.- Distilled water is pure
- Distilled water by definition is not contaminated by any "chemicals" to make it pure, because of how distillation works
- pH of Distilled Water
- Forget the ionization bunkum
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