What is the difference between distilled water and BOILED water?
I've found enough information between the differences of distilled and spring water, but not between distilled and boiled water. Im wondering if there's a difference between using either distilled or boiled water for mixing formula for my newborn. A lot of the answers here talk about not using distilled, but to use spring water, or crib water, etc... However im referring to the instructions on the formula tin, saying to use boiled water. thanks in advance!
Anonymous2008-10-07T15:54:23Z
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Distilled water is boiled long enough to turn it into steam. The steam vapor is cooled and the remaining water is recovered. All chemicals, heavy metals, etc escape with the remaining steam. All that is left is pure water.
Spring water is water that has been drawn from either melted snow or streams. It is chemically treated to sanitize it.
Boiled water is usually tap water that has been boiled for at least 15 minutes to sterilize it. It still contains chemicals and heavy metals, etc. But bacteria has been removed.
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Boiled water is water that has been boiled and then cooled. This is often done to make coffee tea etc or kill microbes. The mineral content is basically unaffected; the mineral content will be a bit more concentrated due to some evaporation of the water. Distilled water is different; the water is boiled and the steam is captured and liquefied. This is pure water as all the impurities are left behind. Purified is a bit of a catch all phrase and can mean a lot of different things. The water is processed to remove some of the impurities. The most common methods are filtration, deionisation, and chlorination (to kill microbes).
Boiled water is just that. Boiled. It kills any living organisms in the water but leaves them there along with all of the other contaminates that may be present in the water. Since the steam let off while boiling is steam that means that all of the contaminates that were in the water before are not only still there but now are in a higher concentration since there is less water. Boiling it also does not improve taste.
Distilled water is made by boiling water. However the steam, which is pure water is collected and condensed back into water in a separate container. There are absolutely no contaminates in it.
I don't know why you could not use distilled water. But then I don't know that much about babies and their requirements either. Maybe the slight difference in PH levels is not good for infants. I just don't know.