Myth or Fact? 1. Urinating on a jellyfish sting will help alleviate the pain. 2. It is safe to drink your own urine. 3. If someone is sleeping and you put their hand in warm water, they will pee their pants. 4. Holding your urine can cause a bladder infection. 5. There is a fish that will follow a urine stream and enter the urethra.
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Myth or Fact? 1. Urinating on a jellyfish sting will help alleviate the pain. 2. It is safe to drink your own urine. 3. If someone is sleeping and you.
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Myth or Fact?
1. Urinating on a jellyfish sting will help alleviate the pain. 2. It is safe to drink your own urine.
3. If someone is sleeping and you put their hand in warm water, they will pee their pants.
4. Holding your urine can cause a bladder infection.
5. There is a fish that will follow a urine stream and enter the urethra.
Myth or Fact?1. Myth-treating a jellyfish sting by urinating on it may actually cause
someone even more pain. The jellyfish’s cnidocytes (stinging cells) are set off by changes to the balance of salts and electrolytes (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-urinating/)
2. Myth-Urine is at least 95 percent water, but the remaining 5 percent carries excess electrolytes, such as chloride, sodium and potassium. Urine also carries small traces of excess toxins in the form of acids from your kidney, but you'd need to drink a lot for that to do damage. Drinking urine for survival is even more harmful, since dehydration makes it less dilute and all those electrolytes and acids appear in greater concentration. http://
3. Myth-Although many people claim to have pulled it off successfully, Mythbusters found it to not be scientifically reliable http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/hand-water-asleep-urinate.htm
4. Fact - When urine stays in the bladder for a long time, more germs are made, and the worse a urinary tract infections can become. Women tend to be more susceptible to UTIs due to their shorter urethra. http://womenshealth.gov/publications/our-publications/fact-sheet/urinary-tract-infection.html#b
5. Fact - The candiru is a parasitic member of the catfish family and can be found in lakes and streams of the Amazon region. It's only gets up to an inch long and has been known to enter the urethras of bathers and swimming animals. "Once in the passage, it erects the short spines on its gill covers and may thereby cause inflammation, hemorrhage, and even death to the victim.“ http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fish/a/candiru.htm
• Clear, pale to deep yellow due to urochrome (a breakdown product of bile)
• These same yellow chemicals also cause the yellow color of jaundice and of bruises, which result when more hemoglobin than usual is being broken down and/or the processing of its breakdown products by the liver is not able to keep up.
• Drugs, vitamin supplements, and diet can alter the color
• Cloudy urine may indicate a urinary tract infection
Many urinary problems can be solved by drinking enough water. So how much fluid does the average, healthy adult living in a temperate climate need? The Institute of Medicine determined that an adequate intake (AI) for men is roughly 3 liters (about 13 cups) of total beverages a day. The AI for women is 2.2 liters (about 9 cups) of total beverages a day.
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