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Patrick M6 · Oct 23, 2005

I used to be a survival instructor. My understanding of this is, because of the impurities in urine, it would actually take more water to re-filter it and would end up dehydrating you more. There are ways to "clean it up" though, by evaporating and collecting the water portion, while leaving behind all the other "stuff."

mich_01085 · Oct 23, 2005

I had a prof. state that peeing on a wound is a good way to clean it. I wouldn't try that either. Yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kenni · Oct 24, 2005

I don't understand how it's supposed to help you if you're dehydrated. I mean, it sounds good (being a liquid). But when you're dehydrated you're supposed to drink water and not soda or juice because they are hypertonic and would further dehydrate you. This is the same reason that if you were stranded at sea you're not supposed to drink the sea/ocean water. I would think the same is true for urine.

suebird3 · Oct 24, 2005

I had a prof. state that peeing on a wound is a good way to clean it. I wouldn't try that either. Yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I heard this, too. It was the sterility bit. Done during the Crimea, I THINK!

mkeep74 · Oct 24, 2005

Actually this was just on a repeat episode of CSI the other night. People believe that drinking your own "fresh" urine has anti-aging benefits and they have actually interpreted Bible sections to back it up. Crazy but true. I don't know about anyone else, but even if scientific proof does back this up, it would take some severe hydration to even make me consider it. Wrinkles or not.:barf01

Cindy_A · Oct 24, 2005

Mahatma Ghandi is reported to have regulary drank his own urine daily. He believed it purified his soul.

LoriAlabamaRN · Oct 24, 2005

As for the urine on jellyfish stings, I hadn't heard that until recently. Back in 1988, I got into a Portugese Man O' War off the coast of Dauphin Island (Alabama). Not only did it hurt worse than anything I had ever experienced in my 12 year old life, the lifeguards said I had to soak in meat tenderizer for 2 hours to neutralize the venom and remove it from my skin... I smelled like a steak for a couple of weeks. Although I think that still might be preferable to gettin peed on, IMO...

Really An Actress · Oct 24, 2005

Applying urine to your scalp is an old cure for baldness. So says folklore.

NurseLatteDNP, MSN, DNP, RN · Oct 24, 2005

I have also heard that If you get hurt and you are stranded somewhere without supplies to take care of the wound, putting urine on it would clean it up and prevent infections.

Chad_KY_SRNA · Oct 24, 2005

I have seen a geri-psych patient who craved liquids and would drink anything, I mean anything. Yes urine was on of the things she drank. We were told to encourage her to not drink her own urine and to stop her when we found her drinking it.

ohioln, RN · Oct 24, 2005

I thought that there are ketones and other things in urine that are harmful if they are drank. They are products of metabolism. Although urine is sterile in the bladder, once it passes from your body, it comes in contact with germs and bacteria when passing through the end of the genitalis. I believe that when people eat their own fecees and/or drink their own urine, they are displaying evidence of a psychiatric issue or may be demonstrating symptome of seniliey.

gr8rnpjt, RN · Oct 24, 2005

My ex husbands grandmother used to save her urine in jars in the basement to water her garden in the summer. Needless to say, after we discovered her policy, we stopped eating at her house...

...on a lighter note, just for a bit of humor when I used to work in the "hallowed halls" when I would sit down to chart, I would get some apple juice from the fridge to sip on and used to drink it from a specimen cup... It stopped a few nurses in their tracks when they saw that, sometimes I would pretend to be very surprised and say, OMG! I left my drink in the utility room!

(a little 11-7 humor):)