DI water instead of distilled in humidifier

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:48 pm

Regardless of what is used, the ONLY thing that comes from the chamber is water vapor which is pure water and NO minerals of bugs or anything will be in it.

Maybe no minerals and maybe no bugs, but what about the vapors of other substances that are also evaporating as the water does? Chlorine, for instance? Let tap water sit in an open container, and chlorine goes away. I don't think it's being abducted by aliens, I think it's evaporating into a gas. Guess where the gas goes when this occurs inside a CPAP humidifier? Yep, straight into your lungs. Maybe it's ALMOST harmless, but look at the frequency and time spans involved... hours and hours, on every single night of your life. Such very high frequency and duration can turn "almost harmless" into cumulatively "very harmful".

Bad idea, use distilled.

kornazoo · Post by **kornazoo** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:23 pm

WOW!
I'm the one who started this all.
I also wanted to use the DI water because I can get it easily.
I surrender. I will use distilled.
I'm not taking any chances here...

Thanks for the great help.
Shelley

krousseau · Post by **krousseau** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:06 pm

It's hard to resist a "water fight".

If I'm choosing water for MY CPAP humidifier---I looked at the info on non-commercial websites re water purification and I pick distilled water for my lungs.

The purest water---distilled wins. To produce laboratory quality water more than one process may be used-the final process is distillation.

Not sure any home deionization, distillation or reverse osmosis units will consistently produce water that meets purity standards that can be attained by commercial producers. Problems in home water purification systems are the quality of the source water, system maintenance, quality testing, and the basic function of the unit. Home distillation units are probably the most effective if they have a way to vent VOC's.