My brother had a kid and I always feel like some out of touch old man when we talk about it. Once he told me todlers can only have distilled water and I had to stop myself from going “Back in my day, my parents gave me tap water and I turned out fine!”
That’s reverse osmosis water. It’s not dangerous but itself but if you only drink it you may be hydrated but missing essential minerals that you usually get dissolved in water.
I remember hearing the reason DI water may not necessarily be potable js it’s only free of salts/ion and may still have microorganisms or other biologically dangerous contaminates.
My brother had a kid and I always feel like some out of touch old man when we talk about it. Once he told me todlers can only have distilled water and I had to stop myself from going “Back in my day, my parents gave me tap water and I turned out fine!”
Babies, babies can’t have tap water.
~6 months you start with cooled boiled water.
~12 months you can move onto tap water.
wait, how did babies back in the day (~1000s years ago) survive?
Sporadically
I thought distilled water was bad for humans to consume as it leeches nutrients from you?
That’d be deionized water, I think…
That’s reverse osmosis water. It’s not dangerous but itself but if you only drink it you may be hydrated but missing essential minerals that you usually get dissolved in water.
I remember hearing the reason DI water may not necessarily be potable js it’s only free of salts/ion and may still have microorganisms or other biologically dangerous contaminates.
ETA: https://peerj.com/preprints/181.pdf
There’s a difference between potable and healthy over a long term.
Also, what an excellent example of “community” knowledge basically being a superstition telephone game this thread is.
Nope, distilled water has nothing, no minerals or anything else, including ions. Deionized water is also not the best for consumption.
I’m pretty sure that’s unhealthy (lack of minerals)
If you only have them distilled water and not the formula you mix into it, then it’s dangerous, but the minerals aren’t the problem there.