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What is distilled water?

What is the difference between distilled water and BOILED water?

  • I've found enough information between the differences of distilled and spring water, but not between distilled and boiled water. Im wondering if there's a difference between using ...show more

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    Boiled water is just that. Boiled. It kills any living organisms in the water but leaves them there along with all of the other contaminates that may be present in the water. Since the steam let off while boiling is steam that means that all of the contaminates that were in the water before are not only still there but now are in a higher concentration since there is less water. Boiling it also does not improve taste. Distilled water is made by boiling water. However the steam, which is pure water is collected and condensed back into water in a separate container. There are absolutely no contaminates in it. I don't know why you could not use distilled water. But then I don't know that much about babies and their requirements either. Maybe the slight difference in PH levels is not good for infants. I just don't know.

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To distill water, they boil it...and *then* they capture the steam and draw it off into another container. The difference being they leave that which didn't turn into steam behind in the pan, so it comes out purer than simply boiling it. The problem with distilled water is it often comes in plastic containers that actually leach chemicals in the plastic into the water, which is harmful to the baby. If your tap water has been tested as safe, homemade boiled water is safer than purchased distilled water for that reason. However, you may wish to test for perchlorate, as neither boiling or distillation removes it, and it can interfere with thyroid activity. Reverse osmosis is the only way to remove perchlorate.

weirdfish13

distilled water is boiled water which has been re converted from steam. boiled water is just boiled in a pot. boiled water fed my 2 ladies and they're just fine.........

pdcount

boiled wateris water that has been raised to theboiling point which is 100 C. or 212 F, then held there for a certain amount of time to kill microorganisms that might be in the water ordinary clean tap water should not be infected with microorganisms anyway but it may have a trace of a chem that kills the germs (that is why you should not for example use it to pour directly into a fish aquarium distilled water has been eveaporated by boiling and then condensed back into liquid form so it is just pure water as nothing else would evaporate except the water molecules themselves, no minerals no microorganisms etc distilled water is not a good water source for the long term as it contains no mineral nutrients, however it is safe and pure not harmful

yyyyyy

I have no idea in relation to a newborn, but I am a senior biochemistry/pre-med major...so here are my two cents. Distillation, removes all (or most) of the impurities from water. The point of distillation is to achieve nearly pure water without other things like minerals and such. Boiling water will simply kill anything like bacteria in the water but leave most of the minerals. I'd say boiled water is your best shot, especially if the label specifically recommends boiled water.

David S

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