If you put a goldfish in it, it would dissolve the goldfish over time. Water is toxic in too large quantities as it will mess up your electrolyte balance. It follows that distilled water is very slightly more toxic than most tap waters but only very, very slightly. As soon as you drink distilled water it is no longer pure.
It will contain salts, proteins and bacteria for starters. I would happily substitute distilled water for the tap water I drink if the taste and cost were similar. There would be no health implications. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Fact of the day 1 Drinking absolutely pure water can kill you.
Tags: death electrolytes poison water. Previous Science Behind the Photo Next Science Behind the Photo The end of this paragraph which took you 6 minutes to read. Thanks for reading it. The kidneys are able to filter the salt by taking advantage of this gradient moving salt once again from high to low concentrations. The exact details are not important for this discussion, other than to know the kidneys need a highly concentrated store of salt to function.
Distilled water on the other hand, has no salt. It is pure water. Distilled water will pull salt out of the tissues because now it is the absolute lowest concentration of salt. Tissues will also take in a lot of this water because it too passively diffuses and it is hypotonic. When this happens in the blood, red blood cells tend to burst because they can't tolerate a terribly large change in tonicity, and so some red blood cells die.
The other problem is also that the salt control mechanisms in the kidneys malfunction because too much salt gets leeched out of them and passed in your urine. After drinking too much distilled water, electrolytes and important minerals get leeched out of your body and this creates electrical abnormalities in your body leading to irregular and weak heart beats from hyponatremia and hypokalemia , poor muscle strength, high blood pressure and fatigue.
Distilled water as mentioned, is fairly acidity can be as low as pH 3 when freshly distilled and leads to acidification of the blood acidosis. There is no exact amount of water that one needs to drink to die. This can happen from over-hydrating with regular tap water, but will take longer than distilled water because of the salt content in tap water.
I'm extremely skeptical of leonardo's answer. I suspect that what would happen if you drank only distilled water is nothing perceptible. The only place where concentrations of distilled water would ever be high enough to conceivably matter is in the tissues of the mouth and throat, and even there, the effect would be temporary.
Compare drinking 8 glasses of either distilled or tap water every day. With tap water , you're looking at less than ppm of Mg, Na, K, and Ca combined. That's less than mg of total mineral content per day. Given that the combined RDA of all of those minerals is on the order of 7g for an adult male , this is not nothing , but it's certainly small. Your dietary intake of these minerals probably varies by more than this daily, and your intestines, kidneys, sweat glands and mineral storage organs like your bones and muscles are constantly maintaining the mineral blood levels within a very narrow range, despite handling a throughput of several pounds of water and food daily.
They might have to work slightly harder to manage this range if you drank nothing but distilled water, but in a healthy adult, normal intakes already vary by more than this amount without major problems. For example, the average American consumes more than 3. Low-sodium diets have been widely studied in the medical literature, and are considered safe. As for pH, the lowered pH is caused by increased carbon-dioxide absorption to form carbonic acid.
Just as carbon dioxide is more soluble in distilled water, it is less soluble in stomach acid, and may be burped out. Would you die of acidosis from drinking seltzer water all the time? If that were the case, I'm sure there would be big health warnings about drinking soda, while it seems relatively benign.
Furthermore, your body produces and excretes through the lungs around 1kg of CO2 daily , dwarfing any extra CO2 you might get by drinking distilled water. If the small amounts of CO2 found in distilled water were dangerous, jogging would be invariably fatal. If you were to drink nothing but distilled water, and eat no food, you probably would die of hyponatremia within a few weeks.
But you would also die of hyponatremia if you were to drink nothing but tap water, though perhaps slightly more slowly. Assuming then, that you had no food, the lack of minerals in this pure water would simply be another deprivation for your body. The intestinal track actively reabsorbs ions, countering this. However, in this water-only deprivation, those mechanisms might fail as some are glucose dependent. Even people who are slightly out of range like pH7. For your blood to be acidic enough to actually start leaching minerals it would have to be well below pH6 and you would definitely be long dead by then.
Additionally the minerals in bones mainly Calcium is bound up into crystals with Vitamin D in a chemical called hypoxyapatite, A biological process is required to release the calcium from your bones. If you put a bone in a bucket of distilled water you would not remove the minerals from the bone over any length of time.
Steaming is better. But your food will be less contaminated if you cook it in pure distilled water. Distilled water is no more "leaching" than any other type of water. The heat is more of a problem than the water used because heat can alter nutrients. Basically if you want to preserve maximum nutrient value in your vegetables steam them - using distilled water will not have any especially adverse effect on the nutrient content of your veg.
Read this blog to find out how to replace minerals if you drink distilled water. There is no economic reason why a soft drink manufacturer would want to spend time and money distilling water to make soft drinks. It puts up their cost per litre. Even if soft drinks were made from distilled water it is the sugar and other additives that are the problem; distilled water would only make them healthier.
Distilled water is simply pure water , if you start adding colouring, flavouring and sugar it stops being distilled water. SMART water the bottled water brand owned by Coca-Cola corporation is basically distilled water with a bit of salt added into it.
Even mineral water has so few minerals in it, you could not depend on it as a dietary mineral source. We get minerals from food, not water. Distilled water does not leach minerals from your body. Naval sailors have been drinking distilled water for years without any ill effects. Development agencies supply water distillers as water purifiers to people in the developing world.
Below is a table showing the the minerals you need, how much you get in a litre of Evian and finally how much Evian you would need to consume to get your daily amount. There is nothing special about the mineral content of Evian, we have just selected it because it is well-known. The average bath holds about litres of water, so I have listed the number of baths you would need to drink each day for the higher quantities.
If you think you are capable of drinking 21 baths full of Evian every day just to meet your Potassium requirements please be my guest. Drinking that much water would actually kill you if you could get it down. As the table shows, mineral water is just not viable as a source of minerals.
You get vitamins and minerals from food. Also, a lot of these minerals - especially Calcium and Sodium are those which most people consume too much of. If anything you need to do what you can to reduce your intake especially of Sodium.
Water distillers do remove fluoride from water but there is plenty of fluoride in toothpaste if you want fluoride. Excessive fluoride can discolour teeth and has been linked to cancers. Distilled water cannot discolour teeth. Fortunately not many areas of the UK actually fluoridate water.
I also object in principle to the idea of a government medicating a nation via the water supply. It violates a personal liberty.
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