Alright I'm new here but I expect to hang out for some time. I was just on a backpacking trip last week and got into the conversation of drinking your own piss. I remember getting into another argument on a rock climbing trip last year about the same topic. Here's what I think... DON'T DO IT! If I'm dehydrated and think of drinking my own urine it's going to be VERY yellow and be filled with salts and toxins or whatever from my body, which will then dehydrate even further. But if my urine is clear and diluted then why would I even drink it anyways? If it is clear that means I am hydrated already. People say "oh, but it's sterile", if you collect clear urine to drink later than it will harvest a lot of bacteria and gross-nasties. I heard of people using their pee and diluting it into their water supply to make the water rations last longer. What do you survival peeps think?
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