distilled water question

Maybe it's the plastic container that's breaking down....?

I have wondered about that when the water had a bit of a "plastic" taste--thinking that the bottle itself may have dissolved a bit into the water. This was after it had been sitting around quite a while.

No matter the process, distilled water will take minerals out of your plumbing and lead to problems.

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Some distilled drinking water has "buffering agents" added for flavor. Should say so on the bottles list of ingredients. This shows up when dried as white flakes or powder.

You might be thinking of ordinary bottled drinking water, I don't think you can add anything to distilled water and still call it distilled water...

They call their drinking water distilled. I fully understand that after you add anything it is no longer distilled.

Electrolytes added for taste? There are very few that get distilled water for drinking, so why does taste matter?

That sounds like an artificial, or engineered, potable water. One might hope that its bacterial resilience, usually provided by traces of chlorine or ozone, is adequate.

This is a conspiracy designed to weaken the bones of the west.

Could it actually be "deionized" water? If so, the labeling would be illegal.

Deionisation can be achieved in a number of ways. Evaporation/condensation and reverse osmosis are the two most commonly-found methods.

My wife has to use distilled water because of a bipap machine with a humidifier. We have bought it for years from several different stores (including Walmart) and have never seen anything in it. It sounds like a quality control process gone very bad.

Water that has less than about 60ppm of Calcium actually tastes 'king awful . It's also not very good for the body, with traces of Calcium and Magnesium being generally beneficial to it.

Drinking water produced from seawater by either reverse osmosis or evaporation usually passes through a re-hardening unit downstream, to put some Calcium into it.

I'm going to give them a call. WalMart has a phone number on the bottle. For the past decade or so I have put dozens of gallons of distilled water in my CPAP machine. There was basically zero residue left after the water evaporated. Now I get a very annoying white coating that flakes off after each nights use. I would guess that is about 4 fluid ounces to create a thin coating of white flakes.

When I am forced to use tap water or bottled water at a hotel I don't get near this amount of residue. I would think that people ironing clothes would have problems with both plugging up the inside of the iron and not having a smooth surface to slide across the clothing.

I discarded the bottle, bought another and still have the problem. Walmart only has one distilled offering, Sams has none and I try hard to avoid the other stores due to everything costing about 25% more for the same thing. I may have to take a trip by myself to another store and buy a different brand. Quite an annoyance for a gallon of distilled water.

Common CPAP problems and suggested solutions from the Mayo Clinic...

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sleep-apnea/in-depth/cpap/art-20044164

CPAP supplies..

https://cpapx.com/collections/cpap-bipap-machines?psafe_param=1&gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwho-lBhC_ARIsAMpgMoeuEPlZ_VEPbOPzFUVRsnS_89sX6N36GZQDjAALzEf6yVL-rcDgS14aAlDsEALw_wcB

Types...

https://www.resmed.com/en-us/sleep-apnea/cpap-products/cpap-machines/

Happy 4th of July....

Insurance gets involved with a one machine per five years limit if using insurance benefits. Without insurance benefits I think the price is in the range of $800 to $1000. I think that is about $50 for the machine, about $200 for the ink to put "Philips" or another brand name on the box and the remaining $600 or so for the ink to print "medical device" in the manual.

The modern machines monitor pressure to detect apnea (stopped breathing). They will adjust pressure as needed to keep you breathing. Most machines run about 8 cm H2O (somewhere around 0.1 PSI if I recall correctly). Some will go up around 16 - 20 cm H2O (about 0.2 PSI) but that is less common.

I called the quality control number on the bottle. They said there should not be any white flakes. I asked what was going wrong. They said "I don't know".

They offered to let me send in the gallon of water. I had already used a little and thrown away the rest. Just as well, I didn't need to pay shipping and wait in line just to find out that I got a bad batch of distilled water. I already knew that.

I have a water distiller that is over 30 years old and is still working fine. It makes 3 gallons of distilled water in 24 hours, but it has an interesting feature: It has a tiny weep hole at the top of the output tube ,to release "volatile condensables". It had a heater element ,similar to a water heater element which I have never had to replace and a timer,(mechanical) which ahs also been problem free. It is entirely Stainless steel.

The distilled water makes a big difference when used to make coffee ,tea or in cooking in general. I can use less coffee or tea ,and actually get a better tasting brew.

And for watering potted plants it is nearly miraculous.

Rain water is no longer pure, it contains acids, radiation, and who knows what else. I also do not trust commercial distilled water because there are no tight regulations on the process or resulting output.

The person I bought it from was a water plant operator who smoked like a steam locomotive.

He would put treated water in a microwave and cook it till it evaporated, and looked at the results.

He then put his distilled water in the microwave and did the same thing...no residue.

He claimed that the undistilled water had absorbed all it could, and had no room for anything else ,and he only drank his distilled water ,he claimed it flushed toxins out of the body and would extend his life. He drank the water everyday.

As I said, he was a chain smoker, lighting his next cigarette from the previous one.

The ceiling tiles in his office were originally white, but they were saturated with nicotine to a dark brown.

I saw him many years later, and he was doing fine, He was 88 years old and looked 20 years younger. He died the next year ,but it was a car accident.

I am not selling these distillers, have no monetary interest in, or affiliation with this company and don't know if they are still in business, I am simply relating my own experience! Take it for what it for what it is worth.