You hear a lot of environmentalists give you tips on how to save water.
One flawed advice many of them come up with is that if you pee while taking a shower , you end up saving water.Their logic is that, You are in the shower anyways..You are using water anyways, so, you might as well pee and the water that you are already using for the shower will wash off the pee as well .As opposed to say using extra water while sitting on a potty and peeing.
I am a physician and I totally disapprove of this "peeing in the shower" idea to save water. IT doesn't work in real as it works in Theory.
Peeing in the shower is unhygienic.
Why? Urine contains bacteria, urea and other body wastes.
Urea for one stinks like hell. \
Depending on if the person suffers from any other metabolic disorders, those substances might also get excreted in the urine.
A person with a urinary tract infection will essentially have a high load of causative bacteria or other microbes teeming in his urine.And these Urinary infection organisms if they come in contact with another persons parts, will essentially cause Urinary tract infection in them too, especially if they are susceptible. (how and why they are susceptible is beyond the scope of this blog.I am a physician and CAN actually go on in detail about it, but then i would end up making this simple ecology blog look like a medical blog.So, i shall refrain)
A person some other disorders/medical conditions might shed blood or blood cells in urine etc.
I can go on and on..But you get it..You get the idea, right?
URINE IS A BIOLOGICAL BODY FLUID..A SWEET LIL BIO HAZARD ..
We do get into the shower barefoot..Atleast most of us do..And peeing in the shower and thus exposing our own foot skin to such waste is just plain unnecessary and gross and sometimes a health hazard.
More than anything else, YOU ARE TAINTING THE SHOWER FLOOR WITH YOUR URINE. not just for yourself but possibly for the next person that is going to use the shower/
DOES PEEING IN THE SHOWER REALLY SAVE WATER?
Actually, NO.
Urine contains urea which smells.. and therefore..in order to eliminate the smell of urine from the shower, you WILL end up pouring more and more water till the smell eliminates..
You end using as much extra water to achieve this result as you would if had gone and peed in a potty.
Don't get me wrong here..I AM ALL FOR WATER CONSERVATION , but i have NO TIME FOR POINTLESS WATER CONSERVATION EFFORTS WHICH DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD.
Let us find more sensible ideas to save water rather than just peeing in the shower or peeing in the pool while no one is looking..LOL
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