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The Daily OrangeFact or Myth: Do pool chemicals turn colors with urine?
Abstract:
It's a hot summer day when you and your crew are relaxing away the afternoon in the backyard pool. Suddenly, nature calls. The bathroom is light-years away. OK, 100 feet. But on top of walking to the house dripping wet, when you get there you'll have to peel off your bathing suit and slip and slide across the porcelain seat....
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Losing Weight
posted 8/04/08 @ 4:30 PM EST
I did not think that there were chemicals like that. There may be but they are not going to be safe to use in swimming pools. For some reason, the body makes the urine completely sterile so there is no bacteria in it at all.
Jim Magowan
posted 8/15/08 @ 7:43 PM EST
Originally posted byLosing Weight
I did not think that there were chemicals like that. There may be but they are not going to be safe to use in swimming pools. For some reason, the body makes the urine completely sterile so there is no bacteria in it at all.
Based on hte accuracy of your statement that urine is sterile, I hope your are major is journalism not science.
Kaylen Thorpe
posted 8/08/08 @ 10:03 AM EST
If you've ever cleaned a pool filter, you would quickly realize that urine should be the least of your concerns...
URintrouble
posted 9/26/08 @ 9:46 PM EST
seems awfully warm this end of the pool...hmmm...
Sarah
posted 1/13/09 @ 2:48 PM EST
If you are afraid of a little clean urine in a pool treated with chlorine and shocked with muratic acid then I sincerely hope you do not live anywhere that you drink city water treated with chlorine.
If you do...I advise that you read where your drinking water comes from. Most humans drink water from planet earth where countless bacteria, amoebas, fish, turtles, insects etc. eat, sleep, pee, poop, die and rot!
Oh yeah--and HUMANS swim in that water pooping, peeing and even vomiting over the side of boats.
Since the chlorine (bleach which kills 99.95% of germs, viruses and bacteria)is even more concentrated in a swimming pool than your typical city-provided drinking water, you are consuming "cleaner" water drinking the pee-pee pool water.
As a biologist, I personally prefer drinking my "unpurified" pee-pee, poo-poo, what have you contaminated well water simply filter through the bacteria infested ground and limestone layer out of my well the way nature intended.
It is far safer (as long as you have it tested to be sure it is amoeba free)that drinking chlorine in city water. In case you didn't know...chlorine is a toxic chemical which is why you don't see Clorox on most fine dining menus.
Given the choice of drinking a cup of pee or a cup of bleach...I prefer to drink the pee live thank you. In fact, early physicians were called "Piss prophets" because they would look at the pee...smell the pee...and then taste (YES! TASTE) the pee in order to diagnose their patients. Sweet pee might mean their patient has diabetes and so on.
To the person who was so freaked out about pee, I hope you understand there is probably no water on the planet that has not passed through an animal at some point in its several billion year journey, either as a molecule or its individual elements (hydrogen and oxygen). The worlds water supply is ALL contaminated with wee-weeand you can't stay alive without drinking a little wee!
ENJOY! *drinks a big bottle of mineral water*
If you do...I advise that you read where your drinking water comes from. Most humans drink water from planet earth where countless bacteria, amoebas, fish, turtles, insects etc. eat, sleep, pee, poop, die and rot!
Oh yeah--and HUMANS swim in that water pooping, peeing and even vomiting over the side of boats.
Since the chlorine (bleach which kills 99.95% of germs, viruses and bacteria)is even more concentrated in a swimming pool than your typical city-provided drinking water, you are consuming "cleaner" water drinking the pee-pee pool water.
As a biologist, I personally prefer drinking my "unpurified" pee-pee, poo-poo, what have you contaminated well water simply filter through the bacteria infested ground and limestone layer out of my well the way nature intended.
It is far safer (as long as you have it tested to be sure it is amoeba free)that drinking chlorine in city water. In case you didn't know...chlorine is a toxic chemical which is why you don't see Clorox on most fine dining menus.
Given the choice of drinking a cup of pee or a cup of bleach...I prefer to drink the pee live thank you. In fact, early physicians were called "Piss prophets" because they would look at the pee...smell the pee...and then taste (YES! TASTE) the pee in order to diagnose their patients. Sweet pee might mean their patient has diabetes and so on.
To the person who was so freaked out about pee, I hope you understand there is probably no water on the planet that has not passed through an animal at some point in its several billion year journey, either as a molecule or its individual elements (hydrogen and oxygen). The worlds water supply is ALL contaminated with wee-weeand you can't stay alive without drinking a little wee!
ENJOY! *drinks a big bottle of mineral water*
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Jack Harper
posted 8/04/08 @ 3:08 PM EST