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[–] Iunnrais@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Even if it was sterile, that still doesn’t mean “safe to drink”. Lots of sterile things will kill you.

Now, Bear Grylls taught us that in this case, yes, you can drink urine in an emergency. But prefacing it with “it’s sterile!” is both inaccurate and meaningless to the conclusion.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Does that also mean that you shouldn't pee on open wounds to clean them? Was everything a lie?? 😫

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also, yoghurt isn't sterile, but arsenic is I think?

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Big Yoghurt doesn't want you to know how delicious arsenic is!

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

If you have no serious problems with your immune system, the most serious problem with drinking urine is ammonia, and potential of drug residues. The former is safe in small amounts (since there's no real good reason for it, only drink pee for "fetish" reasons), the latter can be pretty bad, since taking medications you don't need can be very bad.

Poo is where you get more of the bad bacteria, which varies with other factors (e.g. food poisoning makes everything much more dangerous), and funnily enough you're more in danger from fecal bacteria getting into your blood stream through a mouth injury or bad gums than through your stomach. And yes, if you could reach your butt, you could lick it clean with not much negative effects considering the other factors such as immune system, and the aforementioned mouth injuries, and some of these kinds of safety precautions are also important if you're only into "regular booty eating" without the dirty part, since the anus is never 100% clean.