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Answer for: At what age should children stop peeing in pools?
#2 Get over it! Urine is sterile
when it leaves your body.
Check out these links for more info:
http://www.barefooters.org/faq/14.html
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~issues/fall02/urine.html
(this link is from the Berkeley Medical Journal and includes this: "Though many have been conditioned to think of urine as dirty, quite the opposite is true. Except in the case of a urinary tract or kidney infection, urine fresh from the urethra is sterile, devoid of any pathogens. Urine is 95 percent water, with less than five percent urea, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, hormones, proteins, antibodies, and other beneficial pharmacological agents.
Contrary to popular belief, urine is actually a by-product of blood filtration and not waste filtration. Medically, it is referred to as plasma ultrafiltrate. It is a purified derivative of the blood itself, made by the kidneys whose principal function is regulation of all the elements and their concentrations in the blood. Nutrient-filled blood passes through the liver where toxins are removed to be excreted as solid waste. Eventually, this purified blood undergoes a more extensive filtering process in the kidneys, where excess components not usable at that time by the body are collected in the form of the sterile, watery solution that is urine.
Far from being harmful, urine contains known healing agents. Clinical studies have proven that the thousands of critical body chemicals and nutrients that end up in urine reflect the individual bodys functions. When re-utilized, these chemicals and nutrients act as natural vaccines, antibacterial, antiviral and anticarcinogenic agents as well as hormone balancers and allergy relievers."
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I read a book once where a character urinated on the wound of another to sterilize it. This story was taking place in the 18th century and supposedly it was a common practice amoung some cultures and may still be.
I think there is a very important detail here that you failed to point out: YOUR urine is sterile to YOU when it leaves your body - Other people's urine, on the other hand, is FAR from sterile to you.
However, the point is moot, provided the pool is chlorinated enough.
It is true that some people don't mind the Golden Shower practice! Hey what ever works for you! Peeing in the pool is different because after it happens this purple die is rleased in the pool and they shut it down for two days to drain and clean it!
So mostly kids peeing in the pool piss me off
http://www.snopes.com/science/poolpiss.htm
That is an Urban Legand.
Wow.. I can't believe that there are adults who
holotone, I'm not a doctor or anything, but I think you're wrong. The definition of sterile is free from bacteria. Urine is sterile period, it makes no difference if it is from you, a cat, a donkey or another person.
Go ahead and read the links that were attached to this answer.
Urine is not always sterile. someone with a bladder or kidney infection can have pus in their urine, and even blood. As a nurse, I have had many opportunities to put catheters in people and I have seen some pretty nasty stuff come out into the bags, as well as having read many urine culture reports.
Lynda
Urine in not always sterile
http://www.med.umich.e...bac_crs.htm
(or as it says in Aoterra's post)
Holo-if urine is sterile to someone else, its sterile to you, sterile is pretty absolute
Urine is gross...sterile can bite me