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.

[The Grizz]

My whole house runs off a huge RO system with 0 tds. Before we put in an offer I had the water tested and the test revealed that our water was better for you then store bought water.myself I feel the same as the others how consume RO water, nothing 100% pure can be harmful for the body. Just my 2 pennies worth.

[naesco]

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.

How about a leading manufacturer of the ro/di systems, Spectapure telling you not to do it and why!


""""""IS DRINKING DI WATER OK?

When it comes to drinking DI water, there are many different thoughts on it. First thing you should understand is that DI water has all minerals removed. If ALL you were drinking was DI water and you did not eat anything, it would be harmful. Cells in the body need electrolytes (salts) to stay active and produce more cells. So, if you are not replenishing the electrolytes, the cells could not survive. To better illustrate this: Imagine that you have two batteries. One batter is connected to a glass container filled with tap water, the other is filled with DI water. Tap water is able to conduct the electricity through it because of the minerals. DI water cannot because the lack of minerals. It is only when you add salt to the DI water, that you would be able to conduct electricity.

DI water does not necessarily harm your health unless it is the only thing that you are putting into your body. We would not recommend drinking it because of its flat taste and because DI resins are not made of food grade approved material.

[reefermadness]

Originally Posted by naesco

How about a leading manufacturer of the ro/di systems, Spectapure telling you not to do it and why!


""""""IS DRINKING DI WATER OK?

When it comes to drinking DI water, there are many different thoughts on it. First thing you should understand is that DI water has all minerals removed. If ALL you were drinking was DI water and you did not eat anything, it would be harmful. Cells in the body need electrolytes (salts) to stay active and produce more cells. So, if you are not replenishing the electrolytes, the cells could not survive. To better illustrate this: Imagine that you have two batteries. One batter is connected to a glass container filled with tap water, the other is filled with DI water. Tap water is able to conduct the electricity through it because of the minerals. DI water cannot because the lack of minerals. It is only when you add salt to the DI water, that you would be able to conduct electricity.

DI water does not necessarily harm your health unless it is the only thing that you are putting into your body. We would not recommend drinking it because of its flat taste and because DI resins are not made of food grade approved material.

Did you even read this thing. Firstly spectrapure is a company thats all. Pretty sure they are not scientists or doctors. Second they don't even make a clear statement, basically they are saying if you eat or drink anything other than RO/DI water than drinking some RO/DI water is should be fine. And thats my stance....so I guess we are in agreement.

As for the lack of salts....well we all take care of that by eating and drinking other things. Most people arent lacking salt....but if you are really concerned you can add a pinch of salt (sodium chloride) and/or epsom (magnesium sulfate)

[cathyg_99]

just get a large kettle and boil water, let it cool and use it from there till its all gone, then refill it and boil it again thats all we did for my newborn

[cwatkins]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

RO/DI are primary sold for drinking water. They are not made to be used for aquarium

I have never seen a consumer system (in person) or a water store using a D/I stage. (This isn't to say tons people have them installed...)

The water you can buy from the grocery store only goes through a carbon and an R/O stage (if you're lucky!, sometimes it's just carbon!).

The water you buy from the "pure water store" goes through multiple carbon stages, UV stage, then R/O, etc.

All the bottled water you buy (Dasani, etc) doesn't go throgh D/I, as per the mineral content listing. If it did, there wouldn't be any minerals to list.

With our newborn we keep a juice pitcher next to the kettle and just boil a couple litres of tap water each morning and then once it's cooled down, we fill up the juice pitcher. Then this is used for formula water throughout the day. Just ensure to clean the pitcher every now and then.