# Does peeing on athelete's foot really do anything to help it?

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**Created:** [May 7, 2002, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-peeing-on-atheletes-foot-really-do-anything-to-help-it/107682 "2002-05-07T07:23:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![CzechHistory411](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@CzechHistory411](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CzechHistory411)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-peeing-on-atheletes-foot-really-do-anything-to-help-it/107682/21 "2002-05-08T13:08:09Z")

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Martin Gardner writes in _Did Adam and Eve have Navels?_, in a chapter entitled “Urine Therapy”, “I know of know books defending urine therapy that are not written by persons who also defend other forms of alternative medicine” (2000, p. 99).

It may be worth keeping in mind that anecdotal evidence from folks who live by the water and the writers of _Friends_ isn’t exactly solid medical evidence.

– CH (Who still pees on his feet in the shower on occasion, but more out of sheer laziness than therapeutic necessity)

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**Author:** ![CzechHistory411](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@CzechHistory411](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CzechHistory411)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-peeing-on-atheletes-foot-really-do-anything-to-help-it/107682/22 "2002-05-08T13:09:57Z")

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> \*Originally posted by CzechHistory411 \*  
> **…I know of know …**

know --\> no

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– CH

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-peeing-on-atheletes-foot-really-do-anything-to-help-it/107682/23 "2002-05-08T15:20:08Z")

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I’m waiting for part two of this question…

Does shitting your pants really do anything to help jock itch?

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