Why? How much would be safe
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stebo02@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
if it’s pure H2O I don’t think it’s safe to ingest either
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 20 hours ago
brap@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
It’s lacking all sorts of minerals, electrolytes etc that the body needs. I doubt a glass of the stuff wouldn’t cause problems but if you only drink pure water then you’re going to start having problems pretty fast.
takeda@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
It’s basically distilled water, no?
Wazowski@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Your body must regulate ion levels - sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, etc. Drinking pure water in excess will force you to produce urine, and when you take a piss, you’ll lose some of those ions with it. Big, big problem. That’s why you need salt in your diet.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 18 hours ago
Yea I think you're fine drinking like a litre of distilled water. Too much of anything will kill you, even regular water.
Lazhward@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Would you really? Food also contains minerals and electrolytes.
happydoors@lemm.ee 13 hours ago
You could certainly make up the electrolytes and minerals in other ways (drinking distilled water may even increase appetites for those types of foods). Still, drinking a liquid that leeches minerals out of the tissue around it isn’t healthy
sundray@lemmus.org 17 hours ago
The LD~50~ for pure H~2~O seems to be >90,000 mg/kg. (According to rat studies, so take it with a grain of salt.)
Gurfaild@feddit.org 13 hours ago
If you take it with a grain of salt it’s less toxic than pure water
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 19 hours ago
Depends on a lot of circumstances – weight, kidney and heart function, temperature, activity. The people I saw developing hyponatriema drank more than 4–5 l tap water. Desalinated water will cause problems sooner.
Eddyzh@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
It’s difficult to say and drinking a bit of sweat with every sib would help a lot. The experiment is that some of your cells in a dish with excess of pure H2O will suck themselves full till they explode due to osmosis.
doortodeath@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I think it has something to do about demineralisation, the water would absorb minerals out of the body
takeda@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
The 2nd version of this container should add purity percentage.