I wouldn’t willingly go swim with jellyfish for whatever reason. Got sting as a teenager and the burn marks stayed printed onto my skin for well over a year.
Turns out Dodgeball was not medically accurate. And if urine isn’t sterile, it makes you wonder what else they lied about. Did Patches O’Houlihan not actually like the taste of his own urine? Is there really a link between wrench dodging ability and ball dodging ability? Was it, in fact, a bold strategy, Cotton?
Even if it was sterile, that still doesn’t mean “safe to drink”. Lots of sterile things will kill you.
Now, Bear Grylls taught us that in this case, yes, you can drink urine in an emergency. But prefacing it with “it’s sterile!” is both inaccurate and meaningless to the conclusion.
If you have no serious problems with your immune system, the most serious problem with drinking urine is ammonia, and potential of drug residues. The former is safe in small amounts (since there’s no real good reason for it, only drink pee for “fetish” reasons), the latter can be pretty bad, since taking medications you don’t need can be very bad.
Poo is where you get more of the bad bacteria, which varies with other factors (e.g. food poisoning makes everything much more dangerous), and funnily enough you’re more in danger from fecal bacteria getting into your blood stream through a mouth injury or bad gums than through your stomach. And yes, if you could reach your butt, you could lick it clean with not much negative effects considering the other factors such as immune system, and the aforementioned mouth injuries, and some of these kinds of safety precautions are also important if you’re only into “regular booty eating” without the dirty part, since the anus is never 100% clean.
Don’t pee on jellyfish stings by the way. It’s unsanitary and doesn’t help.
I’m still convinced that myth started with someone getting caught giving their partner a golden shower.
No need to pee on your friend. You just need warm water. Soak for 20-45 minutes.
Jokes on you. I brought them to swim in jellyfish infested waters precisely to create this opportunity.
They know but pretending they don’t 🪼
I wouldn’t willingly go swim with jellyfish for whatever reason. Got sting as a teenager and the burn marks stayed printed onto my skin for well over a year.
As someone living in Queensland Australia. it’s not a matter of avoiding being stung, instead you simply hope it isn’t the bad one this time.
Cool tats dude!
https://youtube.com/shorts/majrC-OkPzY
I thought urine was largely sterile
Turns out Dodgeball was not medically accurate. And if urine isn’t sterile, it makes you wonder what else they lied about. Did Patches O’Houlihan not actually like the taste of his own urine? Is there really a link between wrench dodging ability and ball dodging ability? Was it, in fact, a bold strategy, Cotton?
Even if it was sterile, that still doesn’t mean “safe to drink”. Lots of sterile things will kill you.
Now, Bear Grylls taught us that in this case, yes, you can drink urine in an emergency. But prefacing it with “it’s sterile!” is both inaccurate and meaningless to the conclusion.
Does that also mean that you shouldn’t pee on open wounds to clean them? Was everything a lie?? 😫
Also, yoghurt isn’t sterile, but arsenic is I think?
Big Yoghurt doesn’t want you to know how delicious arsenic is!
If you have no serious problems with your immune system, the most serious problem with drinking urine is ammonia, and potential of drug residues. The former is safe in small amounts (since there’s no real good reason for it, only drink pee for “fetish” reasons), the latter can be pretty bad, since taking medications you don’t need can be very bad.
Poo is where you get more of the bad bacteria, which varies with other factors (e.g. food poisoning makes everything much more dangerous), and funnily enough you’re more in danger from fecal bacteria getting into your blood stream through a mouth injury or bad gums than through your stomach. And yes, if you could reach your butt, you could lick it clean with not much negative effects considering the other factors such as immune system, and the aforementioned mouth injuries, and some of these kinds of safety precautions are also important if you’re only into “regular booty eating” without the dirty part, since the anus is never 100% clean.
https://www.healthline.com/health/is-urine-sterile
TLDR: Urine is not sterile
They teach troops that sort of thing because it’s better than death by dehydration but, no, urine has been shown not to be sterile repeatedly.
Far from the truth.
Inside the bladder. Sometimes.