RO/DI Water Safe To Use

[mike31154]

Originally Posted by reefermadness

My baby loves RO/DI.....

Her formula was made with RO/DI and no issues at all....she's fine. Yes it's very pure water....but than you mix it with a whole lot of stuff....its not gonna harm anyone and I feel safer with that than tap water.

I personally drink plain RO/DI and don't think anything of it. I think the old wives tale that it's too pure and is bad for you is false. Think about desani......it's 8ppm. That is not a lot....if I take a drink of water that is very pure and 0ppm....well by the time it hits my stomach its going to mix with god knows what and it will be more than 8ppm. Infact if I was worried I would just add the smallest pinch of salt to my glass of RO/DI water....and then I would have desani.

If someone can show me one reliable scientific article telling me otherwise I will surely change my habit.

This is kind of where I was going in my earlier post, the RODI is being mixed with something, in this case baby formula, in my case Gatorade for sports. I don't see the rationale in comparing RO and DI, saying one is ok for drinking and the other will strip all your bodily minerals.

According to my TDS meter, my 75 gpd RO membrane provides 0 TDS water after running for about 5 minutes. I still run it through the DI stage for my aquarium, but it's lasting forever since it doesn't need to work very hard when it's already getting 0 or worst case 1 TDS water from the RO stage. This is from a source TDS of 210 to 220 with all kinds of goodies (and baddies) in it. Sure I can get the city's annual or monthly water quality report from their site, but who knows what seasonal, monthly, daily fluctuations go on in between. And if my RO TDS did happen to be 5 or 8 or 10 instead of 0, I really have no way of telling what that TDS is made up of. Could be beneficial or could be useless or even harmful. So I'm quite content in using the RO for general drinking purposes and getting most of my required minerals through a proper diet, meaning food, not liquid. The glass or two of pure RO that I drink daily without mixing with something does not make me nervous about depleting anything that won't be replaced by some healthy grub.