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To drink urine or not in survival situation?

mete said:
One use for urine - if you've been sprayed by a spitting cobra and have no other liquid to flush out poison -someone can urinate in your eyes to flush it out.I have read of someone doing that.
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Don't ya just hate when that happens...Ya get spit at right in the eyeballs by the dang cobra, then you gotta have your buddy piss in your face...Jeez, it just doesn't get any better.:D
 
Hey Guys....

There are actually people who drink urine daily for health reasons..

It's been said that there are many minerals that don't get absorbed by the body and is expelled through urine...

There are also anti bodies in urine that can cure illness...It is somewhat of a homeopathis treatment.

This was also partially on an episode of CSI..

You can read much more on it here..

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Drinking+Urine+for+Health&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

ttyle

Eric
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So your body absorbs them the second time around?

No thanks........:barf:
 
I dont think I could do it

in fact , I usualy go to great lengths to avoid ever having to consider drinking my own urine

the way I see it , by the time I was so desperate to think about drinking my own , it would be so concentrated it burns just peeing , ( yeah , I do do silly stuff and get dehydrated at times ) so probably it wouldnt be a lot of good to drink ....

OTOH , its motive enough to make me learn alternative water sourcing techniques .
 
People who practise urine therapy are also getting the proper amount of pure water, so their urine is diluted.

In a situation where you are already dehydrated, your urine is going to be extremely concentrated and much more toxic than normal and drinking it will make it worse.

Ron Hood hit the nail on the head here:

"Finally to suggest that p**s drinking is a viable option for dehydration is like shooting yourself for protection in a gun battle." :D
 
Had some friends that were snorkling off an isliand in the Philippines, One of them brushed into a sea urchaen and began to get sick. it was a 2 hour boat ride to the mainland. The filipino guy with him said urine would help. The other friend dropped trow and pissed on the guy. Actually worked! He said he felt a lot better.

The Filipino said it is the ammonia in the urine.

This happened ten years ago, but whenever we get together... "hey Mike remember when Brent pissed on your shoulder?"
Good Times.
 
DeerSlayer if you go to the red sea in israel and ask anyone that lives there they would tell you that it does work. Its a very common thing to happen over there as there are lots of Sea Urchaens. Another thing you can use the Urine for is to tan leather. Actually there are many thing urine is been used for. Its all in the head realy of how we look at it.

Sasha
 
nobody is peeing on me...for any reason. I have sharp things to reinforce my position on this issue. :D
 
shootist16 said:
I was always under the impression that you should not drink urine.....I was watching Man vs. Wild.....
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Yunno, I think that's the whole thread right there (and that other thread!)

PbRx, he didn't eat his stool because there must have been elephants around !
 
wouldn't piss on any info given out from Bear if it was on fire. It apears to the average eye that most if all of his stunts are simulated, it is probably fake dirt that is always on his face and no mater how long he is out he never needs a shave and he never elaborates on technique or tactic because he doesn't know. I don't know what to call this stuff but it sure isn't bushcraft.
 
There is obviously nutrients left in waste be it urine or poop. The dogs like to eat cat poop from the litter box when I empty it outside. They take their time eating it like they were some expensive chocolates. The dogs probably call it chocolate delite. Yech!
 
mete said:
One use for urine - if you've been sprayed by a spitting cobra and have no other liquid to flush out poison -someone can urinate in your eyes to flush it out.I have read of someone doing that.
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Talk about a golden shower:eek: I heard that never drink urine or blood due to both will quickly dehydrate yourself. There are other ways of collection moisure from the air and plant life.
 
The Last Confederate said:
People who practise urine therapy are also getting the proper amount of pure water, so their urine is diluted.

In a situation where you are already dehydrated, your urine is going to be extremely concentrated and much more toxic than normal and drinking it will make it worse.

Ron Hood hit the nail on the head here:

"Finally to suggest that p**s drinking is a viable option for dehydration is like shooting yourself for protection in a gun battle." :D
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I teach a human physiology class and kidney function is one of my topics. Last Confederate has it exactly right.

The job of the kidneys is to maintain the osmolarity (for this purpose think of this as equivalent to the concentration of salts) in your blood at a constant level. If you drink too much water, the kidneys secretes diluted urine in an attempt to prevent excess water from diluting the salt of your blood. Likewise if you become dehydrated, the blood salts become concentrated. Your kidneys therefore reabsorb as much water as they can and secrete concentrated urine. The normal osmolarity of blood is 280 mOsM, the kidney can produce urine anywhere in the range of 50 to 1200 mOsM.

As Last Confederate says, if the reason you are drinking urine is because you are becoming dehydrated - then you will be taking in concentrated urine. If the urine is more concentrated than your blood, then you are not helping yourself. Initially your body will respond by producing more urine in an attempt to excrete the extra sodium. This may be counteracted by the RAAS system responding to a drop in blood pressure which will slow down urine production.

The main consequences of dehydration is 1) a drop in blood pressure which at the extreme can lead to circulation failure, cardiac arrest and coma. A secondary effect (2) is that as blood osmolarity increases, water is pulled out of your cells and into blood as water follows its osmotic gradient. This causes the cells of your body to shrink and can interfere with their functioning - particularly neurons of the brain. Thus, if you are dehydrated and proceed to drink very salty water or concentrated urine you will exacerbate the shrinking of cell volume and contribute to nervous system shut down i.e. effect (2). I guess the debate then is whether the replacement of blood volume saves you from condition (1) without tipping you over into condition (2).
 
If the scientific evidence isn't enough to convince one that Bear's pee drinking is completely superfluous, it's worth remembering that he was in the Kimberly during the rainy season, about which he made a big deal later in the show (after mentioning "all I have to drink is my own urine" about seven times). Someone in a real survival situation (who probably wouldn't have been running around as much in the first place) could wait for the next rainstorm.
 
Never mind that urine contains all the toxins that your kidneys just filtered out of your blood. URINE IS SALTY. Most of the body's salt excretion is via the urine.

Anyone with half a brain will tell you that drinking saltwater is a sure way to dehydrate yourself.
 
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