Drinking distilled water good or not?

From our video partners

Home First Aid/Health at Home
What every household needs to be safe.

(note by someone else: even if there was bacteria added in the water after distillation, it wouldn't be able to stay alive for long because there is nothing to feed on in the water to sustain them for long) distilled water is acidic however, which is not so great for your body during long periods (but what you eat can also shift the acidity to alkaline). distilled water is perfectly fine to drink for a week at a time, and it can actually boost your immune response because distilled water causes a temporary rise in white blood cell counts. simply put though, if you have a nutritious diet, it shouldn't cause any problems ever.

In fact, there are extremely few actual test results or experiments to verify anything concrete about whether drinking distilled water is good for you or not, but there are lots of "urban legends" like the ones mentioned above. The mineral content of "normal" water is at best, a fraction of what a body needs for a day, and there are far more "essential minerals" in a single glass of milk then there are in 8 or 10 glasses of water. Bacterial contamination is a fact of life. The second you open a "sterile' bottle of water, it is now contaminated. If your lips touch the "pure" water, it's contaminated. Our air is contaminated. Our clothes, our food, our desks, rooms, floors, computers, even our skin. At least as many bacteria would be killed heating the water to 100ºC to boil it than other chemical or mechanical filtering processes, if not more. For anyone even reasonably close to eating a balanced diet, the body excretes far more unused and un-needed "essential" minerals than are missing from distilled water.

First answer by Kishan. Last edit by Answerbagz. Contributor trust: 2 [recommend contributor]. Question popularity: 33 [recommend question]