Despite the popular image created by the inefficient US for profit healthcare system, doctors are actually fine with providing low cost alternatives, if the medical principles are followed and the end result is the desired effect. It is dumb to send people to buy stuff that is readily and easily achievable at home. Industrially made stuff like distilled water is for clinics and hospitals who don’t have time and have to go through hundreds of patients a day. A person who is presumably at home under medical leave has time to boil water and wait for it to cool down. No need to finance the orphan crushing machine.
Why not just say distilled water? Or the litany of eye drops out there?
Despite the popular image created by the inefficient US for profit healthcare system, doctors are actually fine with providing low cost alternatives, if the medical principles are followed and the end result is the desired effect. It is dumb to send people to buy stuff that is readily and easily achievable at home. Industrially made stuff like distilled water is for clinics and hospitals who don’t have time and have to go through hundreds of patients a day. A person who is presumably at home under medical leave has time to boil water and wait for it to cool down. No need to finance the orphan crushing machine.
Both can get expensive, at least for some. If your needing to flush it every couple of hours then £/$5 a bottle gets expensive.
It’s better for people to have an easy option given, than have them figure “I can get away with tap water” can make it worse.
Because presumably it is no extra effort to boil water at home vs sending them to buy something?
There’s just far less chance of a misunderstanding with something that comes room temperature.
Not everybody has the means and access to a supermarket easily while sick.