Distilled water in foreign countries

I have not posted in long time as therapy is going great. I am getting 6-8 hrs sleep a night instead of 4-5
I am in Argentina for work and will be here for the next 3 months.

Searched all over for distilled water going to pharmacies, grocery stores and convenient stores. Asking for distilled water always got response to go to this truck stop/gas station. I went there and they sold me distilled water but wonder how safe it is coming from a gas station repair shop. It was sealed but without translation just can tell it is aqua destilada but can not read rest of label. Know coming from station is used in car batteries.

Does this sound safe to use?

Mr Snuffy wrote:I have not posted in long time as therapy is going great. I am getting 6-8 hrs sleep a night instead of 4-5
I am in Argentina for work and will be here for the next 3 months.

Searched all over for distilled water going to pharmacies, grocery stores and convenient stores. Asking for distilled water always got response to go to this truck stop/gas station. I went there and they sold me distilled water but wonder how safe it is coming from a gas station repair shop. It was sealed but without translation just can tell it is aqua destilada but can not read rest of label. Know coming from station is used in car batteries.

Does this sound safe to use?

distilled should be distilled... try google translate.

Ask a pharmacy what's good and what isn't - wherever you buy it.

Just use bottled drinking water. The use of distilled water (agua destilada) is only a convenience, to keep you from having to clean mineral deposits out of your humidifier tank as often. Since you're not staying there for very long, bottled water will be fine. And it might be that the bottled water is produced by reverse osmosis, the equivalent of distillation. Most bottled drinking water is.

"Distilled" is not a type of water, that word refers to the specific process by which water is rendered free of dissolved minerals. Reverse osmosis (RO) is another process by which the same end product is made. Either way, the water is the same; free of minerals. Bottled drinking water is probably RO water.

In Argentina (at least back in 2002) distilled water was sold at pharmacies in plastic pouches. Make sure that you don't get the salt water (which comes in similar pouches).

If it's sold in bags from the pharmacy, it's sterile Water-for Injection.

Slartybartfast wrote:If it's sold in bags from the pharmacy, it's sterile Water-for Injection.

Perhaps so, but it is distilled water and you can certainly use it in a CPAP! I used it and it worked fine and left no residue. That was fifteen years ago and I'm still living, so I guess it's safe.

Slartybartfast wrote:If it's sold in bags from the pharmacy, it's sterile Water-for Injection.

which means it's probably got salt in it. not good for the cpap.

palerider wrote:

Slartybartfast wrote:If it's sold in bags from the pharmacy, it's sterile Water-for Injection.

which means it's probably got salt in it. not good for the cpap.

They sell with salt and without salt. The one that had salt had blue letters. The one with no blue letters did not contain salt. They were both labeled in clear Spanish.

I can't translate bottle as the writing is blurred by the stamp. I have used it and it has no smell or taste and does not seem to done me harm yet. Just seems like a strange place to get something to put in medical device. I went to multiple pharmacy and all sent me there. Hope to be with good translator today and verify that it is good.

Mr Snuffy wrote:I can't translate bottle as the writing is blurred by the stamp. I have used it and it has no smell or taste and does not seem to done me harm yet. Just seems like a strange place to get something to put in medical device. I went to multiple pharmacy and all sent me there. Hope to be with good translator today and verify that it is good.

If you got it in a drug store, it should be good. There are plenty of people in Argentina who can read Spanish and translate to English. I was able to read it in Spanish, as it's hardly difficult reading like El Quijote. You mght want to taste it just to make sure it's not salt water. The salt water was in blue, but that was back in 2002 and might only apply to the brand that that pharmacy carried.

Slartybartfast wrote:Just use bottled drinking water. The use of distilled water (agua destilada) is only a convenience, to keep you from having to clean mineral deposits out of your humidifier tank as often. Since you're not staying there for very long, bottled water will be fine. And it might be that the bottled water is produced by reverse osmosis, the equivalent of distillation. Most bottled drinking water is.

"Distilled" is not a type of water, that word refers to the specific process by which water is rendered free of dissolved minerals. Reverse osmosis (RO) is another process by which the same end product is made. Either way, the water is the same; free of minerals. Bottled drinking water is probably RO water.

So is it ok to use bottled water generally, substituting for distilled? Preferable to tap water I would think if you live in a hard water area. I guess deionised water is not a good idea though.

De-io is fine

palerider wrote:De-io is fine

Are you sure? Would the same warnings apply for humidification of deionised water as they do for drinking it?

Quote: While it's okay to drink distilled water, you should not drink deionized water. In addition to not supplying minerals, deionized water is corrosive and can cause damage to tooth enamel and soft tissues.

Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/distilled-ver ... ter-609435

Hannibal 2 wrote:

palerider wrote:De-io is fine

Are you sure? Would the same warnings apply for humidification of deionised water as they do for drinking it?

Quote: While it's okay to drink distilled water, you should not drink deionized water. In addition to not supplying minerals, deionized water is corrosive and can cause damage to tooth enamel and soft tissues.

Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/distilled-ver ... ter-609435

No, I'm like dreamstalker and I just blather about shit I know nothing about.

See the warning about no minerals? Isn't that what you want in the humidifier, no minerals?