2006-07-18 03:49:40 · 9 answers · asked by Hot Stuff 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
They would tell you in a survival class that you can drink your own urine a few times before it becomes too comcentrated with toxins. A healthy persons urine is sterile.
It has been suggested that when a person is in desert survival or surrounded by salt water and devoid of drinking water that the person must resort to drinking his own urine if it is the only liquid available. This technique has been said to extend life from one to two extra days. So I guess if you know your gonna be there longer than two days then it's not worth it lol
2006-07-18 03:53:04 · answer #1 · answered by gnomes31 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are numerous, credible accounts of people having drunk both urine and sweat to combat dehydration in the interest of survival.
It is not a sustainable practice, as recycling is not 100% efficient and contamination increases in successive generations of waste.
It can be viewed as a way to extend life in the hope of obtaining potable water from a relatively permanent source.
I don't know if anyone has tried filtering urine by reverse osmosis; perhaps such practice could extend survivability beyond the "2 days" it is commonly thought to extend human life.
2006-07-18 03:52:27 · answer #2 · answered by wireflight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is harmful to drink your urine as you re-introducing the toxins your body has eliminated but if you are in a situation where you are without water and are in jeopardy of dehydration, drinking your urine will keep you hydrated until help can arrive. People who have been lost in deserts or trapped in debris after tornado's, & other disasters have kept themselves alive by doing this.
2006-07-18 03:55:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the health of the person, I suppose. Your own urine would contain your own waste matter, so it would not be of any real use to you. Drinking someone else's urine for survival would make more sense since it might have waste products that might be useful to your body.
2006-07-18 03:54:19 · answer #4 · answered by trollunderthestairs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I surely have heard people quench their thirst in certain places in North India the position people use their handkerchief as a device to suck water from the drains. Pathetic yet functional and they do stay nicely. If the body is prepared, and would not reject it, nicely & superb; bypass ahead & devour besides the actuality that you'll stumble on- presented thats the only source of foodstuff plan that day. I in reality desire no man or woman falls into those situations notwithstanding. i'm grateful i'm getting sufficient & extra foodstuff than i favor. Glory be to God.
2016-10-14 22:20:34 · answer #5 · answered by vesely 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Urine will not rehydrate you , it is full of toxins, the ph is all wrong and it is also loaded with sodium(salt) It would be like drinking ocean water when stranded at sea.
2006-07-18 04:00:40 · answer #6 · answered by debra_har 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Morarji Desai, an ex prime minister of India, drank a pint of his urine every day and lived well into his nineties.
2006-07-18 04:08:58 · answer #7 · answered by DS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
r u crazy?????It is definetly 4 sure urine is veryyy harmful to ur life.Urine it means the waste materials present in ur body gets out of ur body.Think once if Urine is not excreted out of ur body and gets accumulated in ur body then watz ur position??That takes place only when ur kidneys get damaged.so dont even think of that.ok take care my friend.
2006-07-18 04:01:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were with out water, you'ld be with out urine....
2006-07-18 03:53:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋