Just an observation, but most of all that's out there are "cool mist" ultrasonic units - that aerosolize whatever contaminants are present in tap water. Coincide that with the shortage of bottled distilled water. Can't find any anywhere... Mostly a rant, but also a concern. Most folks filter tap water, but what's that matter if you're ingesting it thru your lungs from running shoddy tap water thru a chynese made humidifier?
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I have a reverse osmosis system we put in ourselves, and I only use that water. I think tap water isn't really good for shit. Unfortunately our house is old, and hard to put in a whole system filtration (even a cheaper system). I use our RO water in my humidifier or diffuser...same thing. We also have a device for testing the PPM in our water to make sure it is being filtered properly.
Do a bit of research about the potential risks of drinking only RO water. I'm not 100% convinced or knowledgeable on the topic, but my understanding is that if you only drink RO water, you will eventually get very sick from loss of minerals (via leaching in your gut).
Most commercially available RO filtration systems come with a demineralization cartridge that adds necessary minerals after the RO.
Good idea; although, be careful with colloidal silver - that stuff is not entirely innocuous, and it will also turn you blue.
Well our tap water smells like chlorine (bleach) So I will never drink that. It gets very hot here, so they add a lot of bleach to it to prevent bacteria in our water. We do still get bottled water (spring water) that we drink and sparkling water as well. We also drink raw milk. We eat an animal based diet including all the organs. So I think we will be okay. I understand what you mean though. A lot of diets lack what we need. Women specifically need more iron than most of them eat. I eat meat almost every day.
a hot shower is a great way to take in as much fluoride in a short time as possible
whatever you put in a aresolize unit you're breathing in, so you're breathing in whatever is in the water. You can try distilled water but still, distilled water contains copper, tin, or whatever that comes out of the steel boiler you boil the water in. The best bet would be Reverse Osmosis water which is just as clean as distilled but does not contain heavy metals from the boiling process.
Here's the thing ... the water is boiled ... distilled ... then reverse osmosis processed ... then UV or Ozination or chlorination ... then select minerals are added in for "taste".
Learn the process before spouting bullshit ... retard.
I read a study of a child who drank distilled water had tin poisoning from drinking distilled water. I do believe it because when I had a distiller I would clean the steel boiler everyday and I would always see the napkin extremely dirty looking. Not sure if it was the residual heavy metals from the steel boiler itself or what. I was also not feeling too good after a few weeks of just distilled water. Either way, water is going to grab whatever it can even if it means tin, copper, it will grab anything. I lost confidence in it and stick to only reverse osmosis, but that's a whole other subject of PLASTIC... because the r/o filters are basically plastic membranes and there you are drinking plastic.
So it's either heavy metal toxicity or plastic toxicity.
And evaporative units are notoriously gross and wicks go pink with bacteria... Modern homes no longer are heated with a stove you could easily place a vessel atop to up the humidity
Not saying you should, but you can still put a vessel atop your (wood/gas/electric) stove to up the humidity.
Central air doesn't really work like putting a kettle on top of a hot stove
I recommend adding a fluoride / other metals / chemical contaminants filter inline before your fridge filter. You can fill your humidifier up with water from this. It's not going to make the water soft if you have hard water, but it'll get rid of the kind of shit you wouldn't wanna be breathing in. you could use reverse osmosis for this, but I don't recommend reverse osmosis, since it removes actual minerals that you need in your water. (If anybody knows different, pertaining to this claim, I'd like to hear about it. I did some research on this, but certainly not exhaustive.)
Yes RO removes necessary minerals as well as bad stuff. However, most RO systems come with a “demineralization” cartridge that water is run through after the RO.
Ah interesting, thanks
Started using humidifier because of bloody noses during dry winter. When the vaporizer/warm mist unit needed replacing due to hard water (even with regular descaling), tried ultrasonic. Not good for several reasons, but the kicker was the bloody noses came right back and my gut was it was the contaminants in the water, because the air was certainly moist. Now trying evaporative, the filters are a pain but it can support a large output which our dry home needs.
Can't find any anywhere? Is that a shortage?
Spend $200+ for a distillery with questionable output... 99¢ gal of distilled is a steal
Do you drink this water that you're afraid of? Get a good water filter like a Berkey or whole house system.
Have a counter filter that holds maybe five gal, but using that for drinking h2o, to have that supplying the humidifier is unreasonable
Rather buy gallon jugs of distilled for 99¢ if they were available...
Honestly ... I have noticed a shortage of distilled availability lately ... based on what's coming into the market, that is.