Talk:Distilled water

distilled water in home sterilization
I would like to know what any expert opinion would be on using distilled water in home sterilizing of medical equipment for people recieving homecare. We were told to boil a few items for the nurse who was coming in, but the stainless steel items soon began to rust. I asked the nurse about using distilled water instead and she clearly didn't know anything about it or really what I was talking about so now we are using plastic items instead of stainless steel, but there is always a film on the water after we boil the plastic so I'm going to try getting high-grade stainless steel medical items and boil them in distillled water.

I have been able to find NOTHING really useful or specific on the web about home sterilization or the use of distilled water in home sterilization and yet it is something that so many people have to do.

I would really like to hear about any research or specific protocols that have been developed for home sterilization and use of distilled water. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Luckypenny (talk • contribs) 19:43, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Um, the section about home water purifiers sounds suspiciously commercial to me.

health
My biology teacher in the 12th grade told us that drinking distilled water (more than a glass or two) can be very harmful to your body due to the unbalanced amount of solutes. She said that osmosis in the cells would take in more water to make up for the decrease in solutes outside of the cell. In class we demonstrated this with an earth worm. We bathed the earth worm in distilled water and after an hour or so he died. His cells became hypotonic and basically exploded, she explained. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.144.46.232 (talk) 05:25, 17 March 2007 (UTC). Please tell me you also bathed an earthworm in tap water at the same time. Earthworms are not meant to be bathed in water -- I'm guessing drowning had a lot more to do with his death. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.201.7.21 (talk) 14:34, 23 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Haha.. So love the response you gave! Yes earthworms are not meant to bath, that is why in rainy season they come out of earth as they are not quiet friendly with water! 119.82.87.167 (talk) 07:13, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

It would be interesting to have a section that talks about the effects of distillation on chemicals and hormones found in tap water due to human activity. The section about health effects of drinking distilled water is not complete without touching upon this aspect. 204.48.94.239 (talk) 15:14, 21 May 2024 (UTC)