I saw something new and scary

[teeituptom]

Ive done this for a long long time now. And for the first time in a long time I saw someting new. A mother had brought her teenage daughter in for drinking her own urine.The pt had no c/os other than her mother bringing her into the ER for eval.

Apparently there are some alledged health benefits to this, but the thought just boggles my mind.I hope this isnt some new trend out there

[acgemt]

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

[flashpoint]

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]

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, BSN, RN]

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!!:rotfl:

[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:uhoh21: ....What they are I have NO CLUE:imbar .

How GROOOOOOOSS!

[rogramjet]

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, ADN, RN]

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, BSN, RN]

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.:beer:

[gauge14iv, MSN, APRN, NP]

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