Drinking your urine in an emergency situation

Those crazy Coloradans

I’ll bet she doesn’t get many dates.

If you are going to drink your urine you best be sure that you are not going to get sick and puke, because you will get even more dehydrated quick. Better to not drink it.

As for eating, after 3 weeks you will find that there are many things to eat unless you are in the desert, and even then. Bugs, worms, any protein. Most plants are not poisoness but it is hard, despite a vegan lifestyle, to eat enough plants to survive. If no one has found you after 3 weeks you are probably doing something wrong.

That’s what dwarf bread is for, to remind you of all of the things around you that are more edible than it.

As for bathing in one’s own urine, does that mean extremely diluted, or accumulated over an extremely long time?

With their health issues @aruvqan might also have had water retention.

I’ve certainly heard of pregnant women who had morning sickness up to and including hyperemesis level, and they still gained weight, were not anemic, etc… That was puzzling to me, too.

I also read one time about some people who managed to grab some things off their boat before it went down in the middle of the ocean, and some of it was tubing that one of the people on board realized could be used to give seawater enemas. Whether those worked, IDK, but all of the people on the raft survived.

Remember kiddies, vaccines are bad and you should drink your own urine to combat Covid.

Remember kiddies, “God’s given use everything we need, so drink your urine.”

Uh, if what is in urine is so important, why are we peeing it away? Why would God make our body to excrete the stuff we want?

Yeah, I know the water on urine is something we want. It doesn’t count because it’s the mechanism of removal, and because if we didn’t use water to piss, we wouldn’t need to drink nearly as much.

We discussed seawater enimas on this board somewhere before. It doesn’t seem a good idea. The premise is that the colon absorbs water, but won’t absorb the salt.

First, I don’t know if that is valid. Is there some reason to think absorbing water in the colon is different than absorbing through the stomach or small intestine?

Second, even if this is possible, salt in the colon is specifically a treatment for constipation. In other words, it forces the colon to release water and triggers colon spams.

Basically, it should have the same effect of dehydrating one faster, with the added bonus of colon cramps and shitting yourself.

One episode of Bear Grills show he used something to make an enema out of freshwater contaminated by bird shit. Not seawater. Still not sure it was a good idea.

It’s NOT a good idea. The salt concentration in seawater is higher than the salt concentration of any solution in the human body, so it would pull more water out of the body, rather than replenish it, if pumped into the colon. It could also cause salt to migrate from the colon into the blood.

3 volunteers were dehydrated and given seawater enemas, back in this 1942 study of Thirst at sea; seawater enemas. In addition of failure to rehydrate, researchers noted rises in serum and urine sodium levels. They also noted the subjects were unable to retain the seawater, when given in the volumes which were felt necessary for any possible success.

So no, don’t rehydrate with seawater enemas.

But…but Bear Grylls recommends a seawater enema for hydration if shipwrecked!

Who ya gonna believe? :thinking:

*there’s also a nifty article on giving Gatorade to thirsty snakes.