My brother had a kid and I always feel like some out of touch old man when we talk about it. Once he told me todlers can only have distilled water and I had to stop myself from going “Back in my day, my parents gave me tap water and I turned out fine!”
That’s reverse osmosis water. It’s not dangerous but itself but if you only drink it you may be hydrated but missing essential minerals that you usually get dissolved in water.
I remember hearing the reason DI water may not necessarily be potable js it’s only free of salts/ion and may still have microorganisms or other biologically dangerous contaminates.
Tap water doesn’t exactly have loads of electrolytes. I think though the normal advice is to give small children boiled water to protect them from water borne illnesses
It’s probably more important in places with less safe water
Yeah, it’s to protect them from disease. In almost all circumstances a place with tap water from a municipal source is fine.
Premature infants might be advised to only get sterile water for a bit as an extra precaution, and people might also hold off a little longer on well water.
It’s baffling you’re getting down voted, you’re 100% correct. It’s nothing but a ridiculous myth that DI or RO water removes anything from your body, it absolutely does not.
Both. But distilled is at best ion poor. It’s not recommended use either exclusively for your source of water.
A good filter on tap is enough for the vast majority of houses. If that’s not your case, mineral water or regular bottled water (which is just filtered tap water from a reliable source) are your best bet.
And it’s cheaper too! Not common that you choose both healthy and cheap.
Normally I would go fetch, but there are so many search results. Just search it yourself and choose a source you cash trust. It’s a very well established topic.
I have, and every result says it’s safe. I would love to see an actual source that says otherwise. It’s not going fetch, it’s providing sources for your wild claim that multiple people have been debunking.
Never said it was unsafe, just not recommended. WebMD has links to scientific articles that sorry support that. But you may counter that you don’t trust those sources. I’m not about to play whack a mole. If you want to exclusively drink demineralized water, go ahead, you won’t die for it. But you’ll increase your chances of developing certain diseases. Maybe that’s an acceptable tradeoff for you - I’d certainly think so if you live in Flint.
Then provide those links to webmd, you have them handy. Why would they not recommend it if it wasn’t safe? And support your own wild claim then. Which doctors and sources are not recommending it. Your specific point doesn’t change anything. It’s either safe and recommended or not safe and not recommended these are mutually exclusive terms here.
You can’t provide what doesn’t exist, there’s no need to lie that Google has it, or webmd has lots of results. If there was, you would provide them, since you must have recently looked at them to be THIS confident in a discussion. If no, accept you’re wrong, and quit perpetuating bullshit that’s been proving wrong.
Well, sure, not all tap water is potable for adults either. But giving special water to toddlers sounds like overzealous parenting. I rather give tap water, which is totally safe here, than water from a plastic bottle.
That also depends on where you live and on the quality of the tap water. Doctor here now recommend you to use tap water also for formula - without boiling it first.
The US has a water system effectively comparable to the ones across Europe, FYI. That includes lead levels, since it wasn’t just the US that used lead pipes.
In most circumstances lead pipes are safe to replace with different materials as part of routine maintenance. It’s only very notable incidents where things go wrong that have driven a push for greater haste, since it highlighted the consequences of things going wrong.
you don’t get your minerals from water, you get them from what you eat.
You can drink distilled water if you compensate for the possible demineralization.
If you think that by drinking distilled water, you’re missing out on all the forever chemicals and pesticides; you can still go lick a car tire and be done with it.
My brother had a kid and I always feel like some out of touch old man when we talk about it. Once he told me todlers can only have distilled water and I had to stop myself from going “Back in my day, my parents gave me tap water and I turned out fine!”
I thought distilled water was bad for humans to consume as it leeches nutrients from you?
That’d be deionized water, I think…
Nope, distilled water has nothing, no minerals or anything else, including ions. Deionized water is also not the best for consumption.
But distilled is perfectly safe to drink… it just tastes weird from the lack of minerals and other stuff.
For once, yes. But exclusively? It’ll extract minerals from your body, causing health issues.
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Especially shit.
Source?
Can’t find it right now, lots of articles online about electrolyte imbalance causing issues, but none linked to an actual source.
Yeah there’s a reason for that… distilled doesn’t strip, so there won’t be any source that corroborates that statement.
You will get water poisoning much faster with distilled water. Some is fine. A lot at once will kill you.
Only if you’re doing EXCESSIVE exercising, and if you are not having electrolyte replacements that’s just negligence.
A lot of tap water will kill you too, your article doesn’t say the difference in the amount.
That’s reverse osmosis water. It’s not dangerous but itself but if you only drink it you may be hydrated but missing essential minerals that you usually get dissolved in water.
I remember hearing the reason DI water may not necessarily be potable js it’s only free of salts/ion and may still have microorganisms or other biologically dangerous contaminates.
ETA: https://peerj.com/preprints/181.pdf
Dl water?
Like water that I download?
Capital d capital i, its deionised
Tap water doesn’t exactly have loads of electrolytes. I think though the normal advice is to give small children boiled water to protect them from water borne illnesses
It’s probably more important in places with less safe water
Yeah, it’s to protect them from disease. In almost all circumstances a place with tap water from a municipal source is fine.
Premature infants might be advised to only get sterile water for a bit as an extra precaution, and people might also hold off a little longer on well water.
But brawndo had electrolytes. It’s for what plants crave.
I thought that it was deionized water, not distilled water that strips your body from minerals
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It’s baffling you’re getting down voted, you’re 100% correct. It’s nothing but a ridiculous myth that DI or RO water removes anything from your body, it absolutely does not.
Both. But distilled is at best ion poor. It’s not recommended use either exclusively for your source of water.
A good filter on tap is enough for the vast majority of houses. If that’s not your case, mineral water or regular bottled water (which is just filtered tap water from a reliable source) are your best bet.
And it’s cheaper too! Not common that you choose both healthy and cheap.
Source? Everyone keeps saying something similar, and when asked for a source, suddenly there isn’t anything.
No one is going to recommend against drinking distilled water solely, because you naturally get minerals and electrolytes elsewhere.
Normally I would go fetch, but there are so many search results. Just search it yourself and choose a source you cash trust. It’s a very well established topic.
I have, and every result says it’s safe. I would love to see an actual source that says otherwise. It’s not going fetch, it’s providing sources for your wild claim that multiple people have been debunking.
Never said it was unsafe, just not recommended. WebMD has links to scientific articles that sorry support that. But you may counter that you don’t trust those sources. I’m not about to play whack a mole. If you want to exclusively drink demineralized water, go ahead, you won’t die for it. But you’ll increase your chances of developing certain diseases. Maybe that’s an acceptable tradeoff for you - I’d certainly think so if you live in Flint.
Then provide those links to webmd, you have them handy. Why would they not recommend it if it wasn’t safe? And support your own wild claim then. Which doctors and sources are not recommending it. Your specific point doesn’t change anything. It’s either safe and recommended or not safe and not recommended these are mutually exclusive terms here.
You can’t provide what doesn’t exist, there’s no need to lie that Google has it, or webmd has lots of results. If there was, you would provide them, since you must have recently looked at them to be THIS confident in a discussion. If no, accept you’re wrong, and quit perpetuating bullshit that’s been proving wrong.
What. That can’t be true. Maybe there’s some advantage, like less fluoride etc. But it’s not true they can’t drink rap water…
Maybe they live in Flint Michigan 🤷♂️
Well, sure, not all tap water is potable for adults either. But giving special water to toddlers sounds like overzealous parenting. I rather give tap water, which is totally safe here, than water from a plastic bottle.
I was just being facetious lol.
Not everything that is safe for adults is safe for little ones. Honey, for example, has to be boiled.
While boiling should work the medical recommendation is no honey at all until 1y.
Babies, babies can’t have tap water.
~6 months you start with cooled boiled water.
~12 months you can move onto tap water.
That also depends on where you live and on the quality of the tap water. Doctor here now recommend you to use tap water also for formula - without boiling it first.
Across Europe there’s different recommendations in every country, and no evidence of different illness/mortality rates related to the recommendation.
France says tap water is safe for all ages.
If you’re in the US, I totally get why you might want to keep boiling your water, but remember that boiling doesn’t remove lead.
The US has a water system effectively comparable to the ones across Europe, FYI. That includes lead levels, since it wasn’t just the US that used lead pipes.
In most circumstances lead pipes are safe to replace with different materials as part of routine maintenance. It’s only very notable incidents where things go wrong that have driven a push for greater haste, since it highlighted the consequences of things going wrong.
Make baby drink boiling water so they’re cool. Got it.
I’m pretty sure that’s unhealthy (lack of minerals)
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I stand corrected
If you only have them distilled water and not the formula you mix into it, then it’s dangerous, but the minerals aren’t the problem there.
you don’t get your minerals from water, you get them from what you eat.
You can drink distilled water if you compensate for the possible demineralization.
If you think that by drinking distilled water, you’re missing out on all the forever chemicals and pesticides; you can still go lick a car tire and be done with it.
Where would that be? Africa?
That’s only if you haven’t blessed the rains down in Africa.
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