Thought this was kinda interesting but would also like to see the sources.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NetnnmOCaV4
I wish he also mentioned the waste products and the reason for them being expelled from your body as a caution not to use urine.
Thought this was kinda interesting but would also like to see the sources.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NetnnmOCaV4
I wish he also mentioned the waste products and the reason for them being expelled from your body as a caution not to use urine.
What's so crazy about standing toe-to-toe saying I am?
~Rocky Balboa
Sterile..... no. Medical definition of sterile means that something is completely absent of all microbes (micro-organisms) and spores. Anything that is within your body is going to contain microbes of some sort. It my be possible that microbes that are harmful to you are absent within the urine. The issue with drinking urine is that it is extremely hard on the kidney's. You are dehydrated which is hard on the kidney's to begin with, then you are going to give them a concentration of stuff they have already processed as garbage making them over work. That is if you can hold the urine down and not throw it back up, causing more dehydration due to a loss of bodily fluids.
Drinking urine is just not a good idea.
”There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.” ~Johnny Rotten
If everyone keeps watching the so called "survival gurus" on TV, pretty soon they'll have folks eating their own fecal matter too ! Either pack enough water with you, or learn how to find and purify water to make it safe to drink, don't drink urine ! But you could urinate on the ground around a solar still to extract just the water out of the urine I guess - lengthy process for little return !
The proper method of providing a urine sample is to cleanse yourself then provide a mid stream sample. By doing this, you are removing bacteria from the surface of the skin and any bacteria that might have migrated UP the urethra, which he mentioned but sort of glossed over. That method is designed to remove external bacteria from being introduced into the sample. Gross..you ain't seen nothing yet.
Now, let us put you in an environment in which you have not bathed for 8 days, you have cleaned fish, picked your nose, wiped your....nose, handled stuff off the ground and now you want to drink your urine. Grosser (sp). Even if your urine were completely sterile guess what's in it now? Grossest (again, sp).
”There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.” ~Johnny Rotten
Saw a sign on the back of a urinal, in a saloon once......said,
"We don't sell beer here, we just rent it....."
I'm not in the urine drinking crowd.......
Actually on the sterile idea....have heard and tried the warmed up urine for ear ache....seemed to work at the time....not sure that warm water and a piece of cotton wouldn't have done just as well.
.....and if the active ingredient in many insect bite remedy is ammonia....why wouldn't it work as a astringent?
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I am not going to ask how you got warm urine in your ear. I have this vision of you being at Rendezvous and asleep when one of the drunker....never mind. I don't wanna know.
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There is an old myth that you can prevent STDs by washing your genitals in urine after having sex (doesn't work). It is not a myth that the Romans used urine to brush their teeth. Urine contains urea which was used before ammonia as a cleaning compound.
Very few things, it is true are sterile (in medical terms) but one diagnostic sign is that, if there is any (significant amount of) bacteria in the urine, something is wrong. In a normal sample of urine anything over 100,000 bacteria of a particular kind per milliliter is considered abnormal because of bacteria coming off surrounding tissue. But a follow-up of catheterized urine should not show any bacteria at all.
It is good survival practice to distill urine (as in a solar still, for instance). It tastes a little funky but is perfectly drinkable - unfortunately there is a diminishing returns. As you become more dehydrated, you're going to be getting less and less water back. What I generally do is collect all the water bearing materials - leaves and other plant parts, mud, anything I can find, pee on them, and them cover them with the still. Every little bit helps.
True enough, my final home is still out there, but this is most certainly my home range and I love it. I love every rock I fall off and tree I trip over. Even when I am close to dying from exhaustion, a beautiful sunset doesn't lose it's power to refresh and inspire me and that, in itself, is enough to save me sometimes.
Originally Posted by WolfVZ
Uh, no. Uhuh. Nope. Not gonna happen. Nada. No way. There are certain parts of my body where things are supposed to come out of not go into. I don't care how sick I am. I can be comatose. If someone is coming at me with a catheter there is going to be big trouble in Little China.
What's so crazy about standing toe-to-toe saying I am?
~Rocky Balboa
I know how a solar still works and have used them before. It does romove "solids" that have been dissolved from water, but I don't know if it would remove any liquids from the urine that maybe harmful. That is where my concern would be.
Rick, I can't believe you referred to a part of yourself as "little China"......
”There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.” ~Johnny Rotten
Do I gotta 'splain everything? That's the hospital.
Had some orange juice the other day.......tasted like "Tang".....so I asked, and DW says, "Yeah, saw some so I bought it".
Didn't know they still made that it....and can still recall the NASA saying, Todays Tang is yesterday's urine"
Wish I hadn't started reading this thread..........LOL
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I heard that Bear Grylls uses a big glass jar and fills it with pee. You then set it in the sun for 6 hours and the UV rays do the rest. He calls it sun pee
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No one on TV ever really drank there own urine, it was apple juice after a quick sly of the camera... I can promise you that.
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