www.10kswimmer.com/.../urination-in-open-water.html discusses the answers to these questions:
1. Have you ever felt the need to urinate while swimming in the open water?
2. If so, how often? Every time, frequently, occasionally or rarely?
3. Have you relieved yourself while swimming in the open water?
4. Is it difficult or easy for you to relieve yourself in the open water?
5. How exactly do you relieve yourself?
6. Have you ever NOT relieved yourself even though you felt a need? If so, why?
7. After your swim or race, do you feel the need to relieve yourself?
Why does it have to be open water swimming?! :D I haven't gotten out of the pool in years and years!!:agree:
I'm glad my wife doesn't read this forum. I've been trying to convince for years that people don't really pee in the pool. That's one of the main reasons she doesn't like swimming. Seriously, dude, use the toilet.
So Uric Acid won't hurt us? Is it less dangerous than the spittle spray from a sneeze or cough? I always wondered about that. :confused:
As gross as it may seem and just like Survivorman you can drink it if you have too. It is less dangerous then the spittle spray as normally urine is sterile, although you can have infection in which bacteria may show up in it.
healthlibrary.epnet.com/GetContent.aspx
Come on guys, do the math....a squirt of pee in the pool. You swim in lakes and the oceans don't you?!
Swim in the pool with me and you WILL meet "Big Chief Yellowcloud"! :afraid:
Does chlorine really kill off urine?
Chlorine doesn't kill urine as normally urine is sterile there is no bacteria to kill. However it is acidic, I suppose if several blue whales peed in the pool you might have to add some extra alkali - this is most commonly soda ash (sodium carbonate) to balance out the PH level.
I had a college buddy (to rename nameless) stand in the gutter over flow before practice and proceed to just "go" while it ran down his leg in the gutter.
THAT was pretty disturbing.
Why does it have to be open water swimming?! :D I haven't gotten out of the pool in years and years!!:agree:
As female medical doctor friend and former Stanford swimmer says "it's only uric acid"
Uric acid (or urate) is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen with the formula C5H4N4O3.
:agree:
Just to remind you that urine, as an organic compound, increases the carcinogen THMs in the chlorinated pools. If you urinate in the pool you would be exposed to the THMs more than others. For the sake of your own and other's health please don't do that. I'm sure every pool facility has bathrooms not far away from the pool--that's where urine belongs :cool:
Does chlorine really kill off urine?
Chlorine combines with organic compounds (urine, sweat, saliva, other bodily fluid/mucous) to form THMs, which causes cancer. While sweat and saliva are unavoidable in the pool, whether the pool is contaminated by urine or *** :eek: depends on what the swimmers decide to do. Needless to say, the amount of urine of just one person is probably more than the sweat of all swimmers in the pool combined.
