[~Kitty~]

Originally Posted by momof3heathens

Believe it or not, we got into a big discussion about this in A&P...my prof started it by giving us this weird visual of a chef in the kidneys "cooking" up urine...I forget what the original point was, but then somebody brought up drinking your urine if stranded, etc. She said (prof) that yes, you can do that, and its perfectly safe (since urine is sterile) but you couldn't let it sit around, cause it will start developing nasty bacteria within just a few minutes of voiding...

Gulp 'er down warm huh? lol

[Jacquie RN]

That is just gross.

That's why I hate it when men put their urinals on the bedside table. Too easy for them to start drinking it.

Shudder!!!

[Jessy_RN]

Yuck!..........

[DusktilDawn]

PICA. That's the new word for the day.

Originally Posted by HeartsOpenWide
Urine is sterile. Back in the day, before they had test for diabetes they Dx a patient by tasting the urine, if it was sweet tasting.......

Thank God for progress!!!

[acgemt]

How would you even come up with the idea of drinking urine!!?? Ewww...well, at least she's not eatting her own poo.

[cotjockey]

Originally Posted by acgemt

How would you even come up with the idea of drinking urine!!?? Ewww...well, at least she's not eatting her own poo.

Umm, guys, I'm eating here...and I WAS enjoying my dinner...think I'm gonna barf now...

[mitchsmom]

Originally Posted by HeartsOpenWide

Urine is sterile. Back in the day, before they had test for diabetes they Dx a patient by tasting the urine, if it was sweet tasting.......I am glad they have other ways to test that now!!

My husband flies medevac & they had a poor, diabetic, migrant worker patient once who was drinking his urine for this reason. This was recently.

[teeituptom]

Originally Posted by Nurse_Smith

I don't know what to tell you? Maybe this girl has a psych history then watched the old CSI case and thought WOW!!! Great Idea!!!
So how did this mom and her daughter turn out?

Well after some lab work to check her out

Psych Eval and trans to inpatient psych

what is CSI

Understood she found it on the internet, how or why I have no idea, dont even know where to look.

[Laurlaur]

I think that it would be quite interesting to taste, but only if you had to do it in a life or death situation!!Only my own though, no one elses!!

[RuizN]

A few years back, as momof3heathens (by the way, LOVE the name) said, we had a discussion in A&P about drinking of the urine. Our professor secretly told us that another one of the professors drank his own urine once a week. Apparently their are supposed to be some benefits to it ....What they are I have NO CLUE .

How GROOOOOOOSS!