Steve Sloan II wrote:
>
> William T Goodall wrote:
>
> > An old friend of mine who used to be in the merchant navy
> > (junior engineer on crappy oil tankers under flags of
> > convenience) claimed that the terrible state of his teeth
> > (they were crumbling - bits used to break off and he'd spit
> > them out) was due to drinking distilled water for months at
> > a time at sea. Or it might have been because he never went
> > to the dentist...
>
> I have heard that distilled water isn't very good for you,
> because it's so much purer than your body that it tends to
> suck the vitamins and minerals out of your body through
> osmosis... and then I decided to check to see if it's just
> an urban legend... and apparently it is:
> http://www.tafkac.org/faq2k/medicine_113.html
The bit later on the page, "Water can be toxic", should be taken into
account when dealing with infants. If you buy liquid formula, it's either
concentrated, so it needs to be diluted, or it's at the proper
concentration, so should *not* be diluted. Read the label very carefully,
as getting too much extra water or not enough can be very bad for a very
young baby.
Julia
who never used any formula, and hence didn't worry about *that* particular
problem, but paid very careful attention to the problem of keeping the
lactating mother well-hydrated
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