Re: Re: Re: Consumption of Urine

[Guest guest]

>Additionally, according to a past web search I did, consumption of ones own

>urine may have health benefits to confer. I don't know anymore about it,

>but think of all those shampoos and especially cosmetics, lotions, facial

>washes that list *urea* and *uric acid* as an ingredient!

>

>Cheers, Leann

Also, if you let it set for a bit, it gets a lot of ammonia in it

and makes a great cleaner, and a bleach of sorts*. In the old

books they collect the 'night pots' for household

use.

Urine is generally *sterile* (as in zero germs) too.

-- Heidi

* OK, I know is going to tell me that NH3 is not a bleach.

But, it seems that you can whiten leather with old urine,

or at least I heard an off-reference to that.

[Guest guest]

Heidi-

>Urine is generally *sterile* (as in zero germs) too.

Isn't urine only sterile for a very brief time after coming out of the body

(and then only providing you don't have a UTI)? My understanding is that

it's great microbe food and quickly becomes life soup.

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[Guest guest]

>Isn't urine only sterile for a very brief time after coming out of the body

>(and then only providing you don't have a UTI)? My understanding is that

>it's great microbe food and quickly becomes life soup.

>

>-

That sounds reasonable (I haven't heard anything about that part).

Esp. given that it turns into ammonia, which would indicate

some bacterial activity? Or just the oxygenation of urea?

Ammonia wouldn't be a good thing to drink either. I'm not

sure what the cow urine ferments into ... the article said it

gets thick and syrupy. Maybe it creates some kind of sugars.

As for UTI's -- I'd think whatever germ is involved there is a common

one, not one that is likely to hurt you drinking your own, and

even with a UTI the bacterial count is pretty low.

-- Heidi

[Guest guest]

cow urine is also used by tribal people in East Africa to bleach their hair.

Dedy

<<Also, if you let it set for a bit, it gets a lot of ammonia in it

and makes a great cleaner, and a bleach of sorts*.>> --Heidi