Re: [Paddlewise] Drinking And Cleaning Wounds With Urine ?

From: Robert Livingston & Pam Martin <bearboat2_at_attbi.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 15:14:35 -0800
>> Is it
>> actually a viable survival technique?
> 
> No. The kidneys use the urine to flush chemicals and salts out of the body.
> Redrinking the urine simply forces the body to use additional water to
> reexcrete the salts etc.
> 
>> Would urine be good
>> for flushing out a wound?
> 
> No. Water fresh and salt are fine for this. Urine has no particular advantage.
> 
>> Perhaps only if the urinator was
>> in good health, or only for wounds on the same person the
>> urine came from?
> 
> Urine does not carry healthiness from one person to another.
> Your own urine is unlikely to be better or worse than anyone else's.
> 
> Basically it is not a medicine and is just as well left out of the body, just
> as the bladder suggested in the first place.

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