[Shamira Aizza]

I prefer to view urine as the waste product that it is. If it were useful to the body, it wouldn't be eliminated.

[Always Learning, RN]

Originally Posted by 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.

Not just in the pacific, in biology they told us that urine, preferably male, would lessen the pain of a jelly fish sting. I had heard this for years from my SCUBA certified family but thought bogus until school.

When a jelly stings it leaves a bit of its tenticle on the skin surface, not all of it's stinging cells, cnidocytes, are triggered, and some are deposited on the skin still capable of causing a sting. If you were to touch these cells or pour water, especially fresh water, onto the affected area, these cells will discharge and cause further venom to be injected. However urine, especially male urine as it is more sterile, will chemically neutralize the cells and prevent them from discharging and causing further stinging. Then you use sand to remove the residue from the skin.

It does not stop the pain that has already occured, but it prevents further stinging. My family and I love the water and suffer frequent jelly stings , It works! We were aslo taught that household amonia works just as well, having girls we prefer to keep amonia in the boat for jelly attacks but in a pinch, pee will do.

[pricklypear]

Originally Posted by 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?

Nutrition for crops is not the same nutrition a human body needs to function. So, just because something may or may not be used as fertilizer does not mean it is nutritious to the animal who eliminated it.

[LilPeanut]

I can't believe I'm replying to this topic *LOL*

But a lot of what is excreted in urine is just excess water. You'd probably have a couple of cycles before you got to the point where there wasn't any water left in the urine.

Let's hope no one gets to that point *L*

[truern]

http://www.wfmu.org/LCD/19/urine.html

I'll let ya'll be the guinea pigs....report back with the results, k??

[DutchgirlRN]

Originally Posted by michelle126

many facial products have urea listed in it. It is a deriviative of animal urine. That is the only connection I could see.

Isn't urine poisonous to drink?

Urine is sterile when it comes out, unless you have a UTI. I've heard the drink your own urine theory if you're stranded and don't want to get dehydrated. I don't know that I could do it, hope I never have to make that decision. Fear Factor makes me truely nauseaous!

[teeituptom]

Originally Posted by mandykal

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

I dont watch TV except for the Golf Channel some

[teeituptom]

Originally Posted by 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.

Thats accepted first aid practice for Potugese Man of War stings. very common in fla. Very painfull. The acidity of Urine negates the stinging stuff.
Remember a surfer who fell into one welts all over a dozen guys or so standing around peeing on him, actually alleviated his symptoms. Have seen that many times in Fla beaches

[tmg724]

Urine is only sterile when in the bladder or removed by sterile technique. Its not sterile if you pee in a cup and drink it!!

[nurse4theplanet]

Originally Posted by 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?

Urine is mostly water plus waste "the vitamins, byproducts, and minerals not metabolized by the liver or needed by the body." Not like poo. Urine is sterile and therefore can be taken in shortly after voiding. I wouldn't recommend it. But it will allow you to take in the excess nutrients and water that your body would need if you started to dehydrate. However, if you continue this process with no water or food, like being stranded, your urine will eventually become more and more potent with byproducts that the body cannot use and then be toxic and kill you.

I am not woman enough to drink my urine no matter how desperate. Gross.