reverse osmosis

[mandy72]

is RO water ok for us to drink?

i use a jug to filter my water because for some reason water straight from the tap makes me pee

its working out expensive and a pain in the butt having to keep the jug going all the time

[spongecat]

Yes it's fine to drink. Many people have RO systems fitted if they live in areas that have fluoride added to their water supply and don't (quite rightly in my opinion) want to be "medicated by force" by an industrial waste product. Naturally occuring fluoride of water filtered through certain geology is quite different.

Reverse Osmosis will remove trace minerals that are beneficial to us, such as magnesium. It may be worthwhile to supplement magnesium which many of us do anyway.

Lots of information on Google if you use a search term such as "is reverse osmosis water good to drink". Answers for and against will come up but when you think about, as one site points out, a proportion of the world's population is reliant on collected rainwater which is just condensation from clouds!

I know what you mean about the jug though but I won't drink tap water either. I don't like the taste of it round here....it's hard too.

[mandy72 in reply to spongecat]

thank you

hubby has been looking at one for a while

our water is really hard, kettles are furred up in no time, drives me mad

i have elete drops that i add to water now and then and take magnesium

[Fruitandnutcase in reply to mandy72]

Our water is very hard and sometimes if I take a quick glass straight from the tap it smells of bleach and at other times it smells like the water you find in a goldfish bowl! Not very nice at all.

[mandy72]

this is the elete stuff i add to my water, not sure if its ok now

Magnesium 45mg 15%

Chloride 390mg

Potassium 130m

Sodium 125mg

Sulphate 20mg

[Cariad-y-Mor in reply to mandy72]

Hi mandy72 - please could you tell me what the "elete drops" are that you take and what they are for? I have never heard of them -thank you.

[mandy72 in reply to Cariad-y-Mor]

its an electrolyte drink

i buy mine on amazon but a bottle lasts forever as i only use a few drops a day

i read about it years ago in a hashimotos group

[Cariad-y-Mor in reply to mandy72]

Thank you @mandy72. Do you use it to raise your magnesium, pottasium etc levels ?

[mandy72 in reply to Cariad-y-Mor]

the reveiws in the group were pretty good so i gave it a go, i did run out at one point and after a few week i felt awful so i got more and felt different so i guess it helps some what, my potassium levels are allways good, never had magnesium tested but i do take magnesium too