is distilled water safe for drinking?

theoretically distilled water is one of the most pure water one can get - free from all dissolved matters and - gases. It look like the most safe water, but it is not.

Our body reactions - metabolism depends on balance of salt in all systems. Water also need some salts (Na and K particularly to balance blood pressure and other conditions) to get digested and to take part in metabolic processes. If it is lacking in required minerals, it will try to get it from blood and digestive track causing deficiency of salts. This will hamper metabolic processes - if distilled water is consumed for longer period. Occasionally or in emergency distilled water can be consumed - without much harm. Distilled water is test-less - temporarily safe, but it lacks minerals and micro elements that body require for metabolic processes.

No, it may not be safe as described below :

Distillation is employed in purification or separation of substances from mixtures;. Water obtained by condensing the vapour is known as distilled water. Distilled water is practically free from any impurities. It is odourless and tasteless. It does not contain pathogenic bacteria also. Hence consuming distilled water is not harmful.

Our normal drinking water is obtained from either river or well. It contains lot of minerals depending upon the nature of the soil. These minerals are essential for any organism, because they are the sons of the soil, a mixture of minerals.

Mineral water from natural springs commonly has a high content of calcium carbonate, magnesium sulphate, potassium, and sodium sulphate. It may also be impregnated with such gases as carbon dioxide or hydrogen sulfide.

In the meantime, it should be noted that all the mineral water need not be biologically safe. Now-a-days mineral waters are artificially made by mixing enough minerals to distilled water. The mineral conent of both natural and artificial mineral water varies greatly.

Organisms have to maintain an internal balance between water and dissolved materials (known as osmoregulation) regardless of environmental conditions. In many marine organisms osmosis (the passage of solvent through a semi permeable membrane) occurs without any need for regulatory mechanisms because the cells have the same osmotic pressure as the sea.

Other organisms, however, must actively take on, conserve, or excrete water or salts in order to maintain their internal water-mineral content.

In theory it should be pure (of at least all chemicals, minerals etc.) but I'm not sure about the hygiene levels during its production and bottling.

After all, the only 2 uses I've ever used it for is topping up car batteries and in the early steam irons that recommended not to use tap water.

The starting level of bacteria is rather unknown and having said this it is likely to 'go off' without a chlorine content or possibly some sort of preservative.

Yeah distilled water is the healthiest water to drink. All that s needed to alleviate any worries or misinformation you may have read can be accomplished by bubbling the distilled water with any aquarium bubbler. This displaces the C02, and replaces it with 02 also giving it a neutral ph. Simple as that, oh and as to the inorganic minerals in water, the body prefers organic minerals from food.

Distilled water is temporarily safe. But it lacks minerals and micro elements. It is tasteless. In China during one child policy one couple was so desperate to save their child from impure water that they gave him only distilled water. Hence child could not develop immunity and one day when he had normal water in school at the age of 12 years, he died. Remember, Europeans and Americans get water borne disease when they visit Asia.

yes distilled water is safe indeed but problem arises when as distilled water lacks all the minerals that are necessary for our human body reverse osmosis is any better than the distilling

no.

The drinking water not only should contain H20 but also all the essential minerals. The distilled water does not have.

All RO plants give water equivalent to distilled water. It is absolutely safe. But whether it can satisfy you or not depends on it's pH.

yes they sell distilled water in the stores in gallons.

but the water coming out of a chem lab, wouldn't reccomend it.

people think distilled water is safe, but in reality it isn't......it is pure, but it also doesn't have all minerals and stuff we need for our body..... in short, it's extra pure....lol

no its not, coz all the essential mineral salts are absent in it. it does not contain dissolved gases in it. and defiency of essential salts might lead to certain diseases.