Lost in the world of RODI and TDS

[DonW]

A word of caution: you may want to remove your DI cartridge before you start drinking from it......It's still under debate, but some scientists believe that drinking ro/DI water can be harmful to your health!

I agree, a little to make coffee or cool aid isnt going to hurt anything, but to use a a water sourse is hamful.
Your stomach is basicly just like a ro membrane. If you add/drink salt water your not going to be poisened your being dehydrated. Your stomach/membrane will pull water from your body thus ending in dehydration. The same sort of thing occurs when you drink di water.

Don

 

[chris&barb]

Oooo come on guys:lol: DI water is just fine to drink.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/s...555637&highlight=is+ro/di+water+safe+to+drink

 

[DonW]

Oooo come on guys:lol: DI water is just fine to drink.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/s...555637&highlight=is+ro/di+water+safe+to+drink

This debate has been going on forever. The bottom line is if you drank nothing but rodi water you will have health problems. I really doubt anyone is going to take it to that extreme thus making the entire debate mute.
There are certain heath conditions that make it very dangerous to drink di water and since I'm not a md I wont attemp to baffle with bull. I will ask my old man to give a quick comment when he gets time and will post it here.

Thanks
Don

 

[chris&barb]

The bottom line is if you drank nothing but rodi water you will have health problems.

i dont think the amount of minerals you get from none DI compared to DI water would make a bit of difference. our largest source of minerals comes from food.

 

[DonW]

i dont think the amount of minerals you get from none DI compared to DI water would make a bit of difference. our largest source of minerals comes from food.

Its not the mineral or lack there of. Its the reaction that is occuring in the stomach just as if you drank saltwater. But like I said I'll see if my old man is willing to give a real educated comment on the subject.

Don

 

[DonW]

i dont think the amount of minerals you get from none DI compared to DI water would make a bit of difference. our largest source of minerals comes from food.

Here is the quicky copy and paste.

Son,

There is alot more to the human stomach than I can put into a single email. The long and short is that you should not be drinking deionized water. Your stomach goes through a very complicated process of gastric emptying. The process is altered by drinking deionized water. In some cases this can be good but in most it is not. Small children or the old like me could unknowly have medical conditions that are worsened by altering the gastric emptying process.

Hope this helps
Dad

http://www.plurogen.com/Management.html

 

[Scooterman]

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutdemineralized.pdf

In small amounts you probably won't get robbed to too many minerals but long term I wouldn't use the practice of strictly drinking RO/DI, most so the DI part!

 

[Scooterman]

http://www.aquatechnology.net/confused_re_distilled.html

 

[scytale]

My apologies to twilliard (who probably stopped reading 25 posts ago...)
I didn't mean to hi-jack your thread by bringing up the whole "IS DI water safe to drink?" on your thread...
but when we're "Lost in the world of RODI" I think it's a relevant point to bring up.

I like to compare drinking (only) DI water to tailgating someone on the freeway:

Statistically, it won't kill you if you do it every-so-often,
and you'd probably still be fine even if you did it everyday,
but it's better for your life expectancy if you don't make a habit out if it!

 

[twilliard]

Ok let me bring this back up.

So I tested my RO again tonight. Another 55G batch.
0 Nitrates????
I thought I messed up on the first test so I did it again.
0 Nitrates????

Do these thing have a break in period or something?
But still 6PPM TDS so what makes up the TDS??

 

[DonW]

Ok let me bring this back up.

So I tested my RO again tonight. Another 55G batch.
0 Nitrates????
I thought I messed up on the first test so I did it again.
0 Nitrates????

Do these thing have a break in period or something?
But still 6PPM TDS so what makes up the TDS??

I assume your testing at the output and are getting 6tds. Now go let the system run for about 3 minutes but this time test the water before the di resin. Let me know what you end up with.

Don

 

[twilliard]

Actualy the meter is reading 117 IN ans 2 OUT right now.

I will go check before the DI

BRB

OK it is reading 114 IN and 4 OUT BEFORE the DI

 

[DonW]

Actualy the meter is reading 117 IN ans 2 OUT right now.

I will go check before the DI

BRB

OK it is reading 114 IN and 4 OUT BEFORE the DI

Ya thats what I thought, we need pre di readings to diagnose.

Don