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The safety of drinking distilled water, including potential health effects and toxicity.
Most experts and reviews conclude that drinking hydrogen-enriched water appears to carry a high safety profile for healthy adults and produces few reported adverse effects in clinical trials, but the ...
Distilled water is chemically very pure and generally safe to drink for most healthy adults, but it lacks minerals like calcium and magnesium that appear in other water sources and that some studies l...
is not poisonous in the sense of containing toxins that will kill or cause acute poisoning; it is simply water that has been purified by boiling and condensation and lacks dissolved minerals . For mos...
Distilled water is water boiled to steam and recondensed, leaving most dissolved minerals and many contaminants behind, and it is generally safe to drink for most people if dietary mineral needs are m...
is not inherently poisonous to humans in ordinary drinking amounts: mainstream health reporting and scientific answers characterize distilled water as purified H2O lacking dissolved minerals, not a to...
is safe to drink for most people and can be useful where purity is essential, but it lacks the or “hard” water that contribute modestly to dietary intake and taste; whether it is “healthy” depends on ...
Yes — drinking an extreme, rapid excess of water can be poisonous because it causes dilutional (), which can lead to brain swelling, seizures, coma and death, though such severe outcomes are rare and ...
: the distillation process removes microbes, chemicals and dissolved minerals, leaving largely pure H2O that poses no acute toxicity risk for most people . However, because distillation strips out min...
of distilled (demineralized) water can lower intake of certain minerals that normally appear in drinking water, and scientific reviews warn this may pose health risks for some populations; however, ma...
Salt — when delivered as a concentrated saline solution such as a “saltwater flush” — produces a clear laxative effect for many people by drawing water into the bowel and stimulating stool evacuation,...
Distilled water is not poisonous in the ordinary sense: it is water purified by boiling and re-condensing and is widely described as safe to drink, though stripped of dissolved minerals and therefore ...
Distilled water is chemically free of dissolved minerals and electrolytes but is generally safe for adults who consume a balanced diet; the scientific reporting does not offer a single “liters per day...
Distilled water is not poisonous in the ordinary sense: commercially produced distilled water is widely described as safe to drink, although it lacks dissolved minerals that other water sources provid...