That's very strange that you don't have distilled water.
I thought you would be able to get distilled water pretty much anywhere except in maybe "third world countries". (?)
And even there you would think you could get it in the bigger cities.
Especially since I believe that baby's formula is ideally supposed to be mixed with distilled water
to make sure it is very pure with no possibilities of contamination. And other uses, like in steam irons.
(during the Pandemic, when everyone freaked out and bought up "everything", I felt bad about
buying what little "Baby Formula Water" I could find, but I needed it for my "medicine", so I tried
to leave at least one bottle left on the shelf, and didn't buy it if there was only one bottle)
Don't you have any "big box"-type stores, like Walmart, or K-mart, or Costco, or Sam's Club, etc.?
(supposedly there is a Walmart and Costco in Athens, but that doesn't help you if you live
too far away to travel there)
Ideally, you should use STEAM Distilled water. Or some other form of Distilled water if you can't
get that. Sometimes this is called Purified water.
Deionized water MIGHT be "okay", but... Because most non-particulate water impurities are dissolved salts,
deionization produces highly pure water that is
generally similar to distilled water, with the advantage that
the process is quicker and does not build up scale.
However, deionization does not significantly remove
uncharged organic molecules, viruses, or bacteria, except by incidental trapping.
So it is definitely not ideal. (maybe if it was also well-Filtered?)
Some people say "Use the purest water you can find", but there is a chance that "non-pure" water
can contain chemicals & minerals that might cause the MMS to not work, or not work as well,
and there is always the chance of the Chlorine Dioxide interacting with other chemicals to create
chemicals or compounds that you
do not want to ingest. And you DO NOT want to use "city tap water"
that contains Chlorine or Fluoride. (unless you have a decent filter that removes that)
"Bottle water" is probably relatively clean. In the U.S. we usually have "Mountain Spring Water",
but it does have minerals, and could potentially have chemicals in it, although supposedly at levels
that are "safe for consumption". (ppm or ppb)
I did a web search and found this TripAdvisor discussion form:
www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g189422-i244-k11913404-Distilled_water_availability-Cyclades_South_Aegean.html
Here is some info from there:
"I am in Athens now on my honemoon. Small pharmacies don't carry it but larger busier pharmacies in crowded areas do carry it. I paid 1 Euro for 1 Liter. I am going to Corfu later and don't expect to find it there so I will get a couple of bottles to take with me. Hope that helps."
Best place to try first is a pharmacy, then the larger supermarkets if you can find one.
We were able to purchase distilled water for my husbands CPAP in supermarkets in Athens and also in Paros. I cannot remember the actual cost but it was very cheap.
We only found the distilled water in pharmacies. Most only had 1 liter or 1/2 liter bottles. A couple of the larger ones had 5 liter bottles as well. .... We asked at every pharmacy we saw and roughly 1/3 of them had it.
And from elsewhere:
The supermarket Sklavonetis has it
Supermarkets sell it. You will find it in 4 litre plastic containers near the washing machine detergents as it is used in steam irons.
How do you ask for “Distilled Water” in Greek? >>> απεσταγμένο νερό (apestagmeno nero)
Lidl in Greece sells distilled water--I use it for my iron.
Samaria Greek Bottled Water 500ml Greece — Imported from the island of Crete, Greece. This is distilled water without bubbles
They do have Distilled Water Machines that make distilled water, like this one: (I don't know much about them)
www.ubuy.com.gr/en/product/47FFRPG-dc-house-1-gallon-water-distiller-machine-750w-distilling-pure-water-for-home-countertop-table-desktop-4l-distilled-water-making-machine-to-make-clean
In
Jim Humble's "MMS Health Recovery Guidebook", he does mentioned that you can use other liquids,
as long as they don't negatively interact with the ClO2. If you don't have that book, I strongly suggest
you purchase a copy. (and also some ClO2 Test Strips -- I get mine from Amazon; see my website, link below)
Good luck.
