Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids

Re:Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher deterg... by mauvehaus on Thursday December 01, 2022 @05:02PM (#33823556)

Fill the salt? I'm not sure all dishwashers have a receptacle for that. Ours doesn't, and I'm pretty confident that I've never had one that did across several states in the US and one place in Belgium.

Is the salt for doing a softening process that substitutes for a whole house softener if you don't have one?

We live in a place with hard water and have no softener in the house (you should see our electric kettle when we haven't cleaned it recently). Recently the accumulation of what I assume to be mineral film has gotten a bit noticeable on the dishes that go in the dishwasher.

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Re:Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher deterg... by cj on Thursday December 01, 2022 @05:09PM (#33823657)

My dishwasher has a "salt" light that lights up when the salt is low.

The dishwasher is also 30 years old. Miele G 680 SC from 1992. Living in New York. Perhaps adding salt was more common in older models.

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Re:Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher deterg... by spfzero on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:21PM (#33824489)

I have a new-ish Miele which has it. Good thing too, because we have really hard water here.

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Re:Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher deterg... by seszett on Friday December 02, 2022 @03:57AM (#33828304)

> and one place in Belgium.

You might not have paid attention to it because your didn't know about it, but I don't think there are any dishwashers in Belgium that don't use salt, at least for the last twenty years or so.

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Re:Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher deterg... by mauvehaus on Friday December 02, 2022 @08:33AM (#33830206)

1) Thanks for the reminder that I'm getting old :-)

2) IIRC, that house had a whole house softener.

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