distilled/deionized water

[Shelley Cole]

If you use the distilled or deionized water to brew coffee or tea, it is 
no longer distilled or deionized, so I don't see that as a concern.(I am 
correct)  I 
also think you have to drink quite a bit of water to die of hypotonic 
shock, and it doesn't have to be distilled or deionized or purified.

Shelley

On 4 Oct 1996, Richard P. Grant wrote:

> In article <532n2n$1b7 at sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>, un691cs at genius.embnet.dkfz-heidelberg.de (z) writes:
> > Hello,
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> > we have three kinds of water in the lab: tabwater, VE water and millipore 
> > deionized water. The VE water also comes from a tab, but most of the
> > calcium is removed (by distillation ? no idea).
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> > I usually use the VE water to prepare my coffee or tea, but now a colleague
> > mentioned that this water is so low in ion concentrations, that it damages
> > your gut. I heard this story in the past, but then I was told it
> > damages the kidneys.
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> > So my question is: is it healthy or not to drink distilled or VE water.
> > are there any studies that describe damage to the organism ?
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> Don't know which studies describe this, but basically the hypotonic shock 
> kiils you.
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