Originally Posted by asoldierswife05
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.
Good point. For some reason that story stuck in my mind from way back when it happened when I was a kid. We lived in the desert, and were taught from an early age about carrying water, and where to get water if you were ever stranded in the desert - and after this happened, everybody was cautioned NEVER to drink urine. The group of Mexicans who died had last been seen in Mexico a couple weeks before they were found, they had been out there for at least a week in 115 degree heat. I remember hearing that they had not all died of dehydration, some had died from the urine consumption. I suppose they had reached the point where the urine was actually toxic. I might get desperate enough to drink urine, but can't picture myself digging into poo!
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Enough Already !
