[rogramjet]

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!!

I remind my pts of this, especially if they are hesitant to test their BG. Hey, things could always be worse.

[RN Rotten Nurse]

Premarin is made from horse urine.

[mandykal]

Originally Posted by teeituptom

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.

Crime Scene Investigation.....One of those TV shows with series

[pricklypear]

Several years ago (like maybe 25) there was a group of Mexicans trying to cross the border into Arizona who got lost, ran out of water, and resorted to drinking their own urine. Every single one of them died. I don't believe drinking urine will save your life in a dehydration situation, if you think about the physiology of urine production, and putting all those toxins back into your body - no matter what stories are out there. However, I guess it wouldn't kill you if you were doing it for "medicinal" purposes, and were well hydrated to begin with. But I don't see how there could be any health benefit to putting waste back into your body. It's being excreted from the body because it's poisonous to the body, sterile or not. Would there be any nutritional benefit to eating poo?

[SweetOldWorld]

Lots of animals eat feces. There's still a lot of nutrition left.

Do a google search on drinking urine. Quite a few folks do it for sexual kicks. Others for "health" reasons.

I knew a woman who was receiving alternative cancer treatment which consisted of injecting her own urine IM. True story. She was paying a lot of money for this too.

And, as someone pointed out, Premarin is made from horse urine.

[gauge14iv]

You CAN drink your urine to prevent dehydration, but only so many times - after awhile - you STILL need water!

[mandykal]

I don't know about drinking peepee but.....in a little Island in the pacific.....if a person gets stung by a jelly fish, they put urine on the site to stop the pain. Don't ask me how it works, its just a remedy.

[pricklypear]

Originally Posted by SweetOldWorld

Lots of animals eat feces. There's still a lot of nutrition left.


And, as someone pointed out, Premarin is made from horse urine.

There is? Animals (primarily dogs) eat their own feces for other reasons than nutrition. Usually because they've been raised in a cage or kennel and eating the feces was preferable to lying in it.

Premarin is made from the HORMONE which is extracted from horse urine. It's not horse urine in tablet form.

[SweetOldWorld]

Rabbits eat their own feces. Dogs eat feces from other animals too, so it's not just the kennel theory of cleanliness that explains the behavior.

[SweetOldWorld]

Forgot to mention that human excrement is used as fertilizer in some places. Not that I'm recommending the practice, mind you. But yes, there is nutrition in feces, else why would it be used as fertilizer?