It’s a bit safer to use freshly boiled water. You can contaminate distilled water if you keep it around long enough.
Also, whatever few microorganisms there are won’t generally do very well because there’s not much for them to consume.
But there are some, which is why you should always use distilled water instead of tap water when it’s important to avoid microorganisms such as with nasal irrigation.
glasratz@feddit.org 21 hours ago
phonics@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But don’t be drinking distilled water or it will pull all the nutrients out of your body. Like iron etc.
glasratz@feddit.org 21 hours ago
You have to drink quite a lot of destilled water or drink it regularly for this to matter. Also, Iron can’t be pulled out of your body, that’s why it can be quite dangerous to overdose on iron supplements long term.