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I would like to know what any expert opinion would be on using distilled water in home sterilizing of medical equipment for people recieving homecare. We were told to boil a few items for the nurse who was coming in, but the stainless steel items soon began to rust. I asked the nurse about using distilled water instead and she clearly didn't know anything about it or really what I was talking about so now we are using plastic items instead of stainless steel, but there is always a film on the water after we boil the plastic so I'm going to try getting high-grade stainless steel medical items and boil them in distillled water.

I have been able to find NOTHING really useful or specific on the web about home sterilization or the use of distilled water in home sterilization and yet it is something that so many people have to do.

I would really like to hear about any research or specific protocols that have been developed for home sterilization and use of distilled water. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Luckypenny (talk • contribs) 19:43, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Um, the section about home water purifiers sounds suspiciously commercial to me.

This whole section breaks with the overall quite readable article as being overly wordy and scientific, and ultimately just hard to parse. It's also not clear what point it is making. Add to this, the citation needed tag has been there since 2018. At what point do we simply remove the section if it offers nothing of value, or could leech over into disinformation?

'Recommendations for magnesium have been put at a minimum of 10 mg/L with 20–30 mg/L optimum; for calcium a 20 mg/L minimum and a 40–80 mg/L optimum, and a total water hardness (adding magnesium and calcium) of 2–4 mmol/L. At water hardness above 5 mmol/L, higher incidence of gallstones, kidney stones, urinary stones, arthrosis, and arthropathies have been observed. [citation needed] For fluoride the concentration recommended for dental health is 0.5–1.0 mg/L, with a maximum guideline value of 1.5 mg/L to avoid dental fluorosis.[1]' Sinimial (talk) 20:19, 21 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]