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Bathroom Stuff

* Can you drink your own urine?
Drinking small amounts of your own urine is probably safe. It is made up of 95 percent water, 2.5 percent urea, and 2.5 percent salt, and other minerals, hormones, and enzymes. Actually, some people consider it to have therapeutic properties. The Chinese Association of Urine Therapy claims that urine is sterile, antiseptic, and nontoxic.

For serious yoga practitioners, drinking one's urine is called amaroli. One of the most famous users of urine therapy was the prime minister of India from 1977 to 1979, Morarji Desai. At the celebration of his ninety-ninth birthday, Desai attributed his longevity to drinking urine on a daily basis.


* Can you ignite a f@rt?
Yes! The flammable character of f@rts is due to hydrogen and methane. The proporations of these gases depend largely on the bacteria that live in the huma ncolon that digest, or ferment, food tht has not been absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract before reaching the colon.

An average f@rt is composed of about 59 percent nitrogen, 21 percent hydrogen, 9 percent carbon dioxide, 7 percent methane, and 4 percent oxygen. Less than 1 percent of its makeup is what makes a f@rt stink. The temperature of a f@rt at its time of creation is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

F@rts have been clocked at a speed of ten feet per second. A person produces about half a liter of f@rts a day. Woman f@rt as much as men. Most people pass gas about fourteen times a day.


* Why do you get all "pruney" after a long bath?
The simple answer for why this occurs is that our outer layer of skin(the epidermis) absorbs a little bit of water when we soak too long in the tub. The skin on the feet and hands is thicker than the skin on the rest of the body and therefore makes any changes more noticeable. As the epidermis expands, the layer below it, the dermis, does not swell, so the epidermis wrinkles in some areas.


* Is it more sanitary to be spit on or peed on?
Normal urine is sterile. It contains fluids, salts, and waste products, but it is free of bacteria, viruses and fungi. It is not always fragrant, but is certainly cleaner than spit. Spit contains large amounts of bacteria and thus is filthy.


* Why do beans give you gas?
Beans are the most famous f@rting food. Beans contain high percentages of sugars(oligosaccharides) that our bodies are unable to digest. When these sugars make it to our intestines, bacteria go to work and start producing large amounts of gas. We also form gas from other sources, including the air we swallow, gas that seeps into our intestines from the bloodstream, and carbon dioxide formed from saliva reacting with stomach acid.

You can reduce gas by soaking beans in water before you cook them, but make sure to discard the water, don't use it. Unfortunately, you also lose some water-soluble vitamins by doing this.

Other gas producing foods are broccoli, brussels sprouts, cooked cabbage, raw apples, radishes, onions, cucumbers, melons, coffee, peanuts, eggs, oranges, tomatoes, strawberries, milk, and raisins.


* Would you die if you ate your own fec3s?
There is a psychiatric illness called coprophagia, the eating of one's own fec3s. It is an uncommonly reported symptom that can be seen in patients with schizophrenia, alcoholism, dementia, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Scatolia, the smearing of fec3s, is often seen in psychiatric hospitals. High-fuctioning individuals may sometimes exhibit coprophagia as part of a paraphilia or abnormal sexual arousal disorder. There are even some claims that Eva Braun urinated and defecated on Adolf Hitler.

You can get very sick by eating fec3s. It shouldn't be fatal, but complications from snacking on sh1t include hepatitis, oral infection, abscess, and a variety of other infectious diseases. Besides that, think of the morning breath.


* Will you get hemorrhoids from sitting on the toilet too long?
Sitting on the toilet too long may cause hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids are abnormaly swollen veins in the rectum and anus. It's estimated that about one hundred million Americans are currently suffering from hemorrhoids. More than half of the U.S. population develops hemorrhoids by age fifty. The most frequent cause of hemorrhoids are constant sitting, straining with bowel movements(from constipation or hard stools), prolonged sitting on the toilet, severe coughing, giving birth, or heavy lifting. It has also been suggested that the Western diet, which is rich in processed foods and lacking in fiber, contributes to hemorrhoids.

Sitting on the toilet too long is problematic because this is the only time that the anus truly relaxes, allowing the veins down there to fill completely with blood. To prevent this problem, you should p00p as soon as possible after the urge occurs.


* Why does poo stink if the food doesn't?
Everything that happens in the intestine seems to have something to do with the production of gases and sulfur compounds. The bacteria inside fec3s is what makes it smell so bad. The smell of your p00p can be affected by medical conditions or your diet. Fat or bloody p00p are known to be particularly smelly. In the hospital, a large, ripe poo is known as a code brown.


* Why does poo float?
It is gas that makes p00 float. Increased levels of air and gas make it less dense and therefore cause it to float. Lots of corn in your p00 might also contribute.


* Why is poo brown?
Fec3s are mostly shades of brown or yellow because of the presense of an orange-yellow substance called bilirumbin. Bilirubin combines with iron in the intestine to give the combo a beautiful brown color.

Poo has a rainbow of possibilities:

Black: A black stool (melena) can mean that blood is coming from the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract, the esophagus, stomach, or first part of the small intestine. Other things that can cause black stool are black licorice, lead, iron pills, Pepto-Bismol, or blueberries.

Green: Green, leafy vegetables contain chlorophyll, which can color the stool green. Green fec3s can also occur with diarrhea if bile passes through the inestine unchanged. In breast-fed babies, green stool is a normal occurrence, especially right after delivery.

Red: Maroon stool or bright red blood in the p00 usually suggests that the blood is coming from the lower part of the GI tract. Hemorrhoids and diverticulitis are the most common cause of red blood in the stool. Beets and tomatoes can also make stools appear reddish.

Gray: Diseases of the liver, pancreas, and gallbladder can cause pale or gray stool.

Yellow: One condition that can cause yellow stool is a parasitic infection known as giardia. Giardia also causes significant diarrhea. Another cause of yellow poo is a condition known as Gilbert's syndrome. This is a fairly common genetic disorder that causes an increase in your level of bilirubin. Gilbert's syndrome is rarely dangerous.


* Where does gas go when you can't fart?
Gas will find a way out, one way or another. If it can't find a way out, it will simply get absorbed and come out later. Your butt has a general rule about being a one-way street, but it has been known to be broken. Sinners :-)


* If you are stranded on a desert island, should you drink seawater or your own urine?
Seawater is more than three times as concentrated as blood. Humans shouldn't drink salt water because it forces your body to deal with a solution that is more concentrated than its own fluids. In order to get rid of the excess salt, your body must excrete it through the kidneys as urine. The can kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water, so if you drink seawater, you'll be peeing a lot and losing an excess of water. This would cause your body to become dehydrated, leaving an excess of sodium in your bloodstream. Water would then leave all your other cells to enter the bloodstream. This would cause the cells to shrink and malfunction. As a result, muscles would become weak and ache ,the heart would beat irregularly, you would become confused, and ultimately you woul die.

Drinking urine is probably safer than seawater, but the catch-22 is that if you don't have any water to drink, you will become dehydrated and not produce any urine. The best bet is to not get shipwrecked and if you do, hope for rain.


* Can you catch diseases from a toilet seat?
Occasionally you can catch something from a public toilet seat but this isn't all that common. Work, on the other hand, may be worse for your health than toilet seats. A microbiologist at the University of Arizona, Charles Gerba, found that the typical office desk harbors around four hundred times more disease-causing bacteria than the average toilet seat.

Doorknob: 7,531 germs per square centimeter

Telephone: 3,894 germs per square centimeter

Keyboard: 511 germs per square centimeter

Computer Mouse: 260 germs per square centimeter

Toilet Seat: 0 to 10 germs per square centimeter


* Why do I have to go to the bathroom immediately after a cup of coffee?
Coffee is known to have a laxative effect. The caffeine in coffee speeds up every system in the body, including the bowels. But when used excessively, caffeine can interfere with the bowels' normal contractions and lead to constipation. Decaffeinated coffee does away with the caffeine but it still acts as a bowel irritant.


* Why do cigarettes have a laxative effect?
Nicotine has a laxative effect because it stimulates nerves that increase intestinal contraction.


* Why do you have to pee when you hear water dripping?
It is a psychological thing. What is the noise you hear when you are peeing? Similiar? There ya go!

There is no medical explanation for this.


* If you a stick a sleeping person's hand in warm water, will he or she wet the bed?
Yes! Chances are they will wet the bed. There is no clear medical explanation but it is indeed real. Have you ever washed your hands and then realized you needed to pee really bad? It is possible that warm water on your hands causes a reduction of pressure in the urethra.

Now go stick your sleeping friends hands in water! It only needs to be in there for about 20 seconds, but as much as two minutes sometimes.


* Is it dangerous to hold it when you have to pee?
Our bodies have a nonvoluntary reflex mechanism to prevent our bladder from getting too distended, called the micturition reflex. When our bladder gets distended, there are stretch receptors in the bladder wall that let us know that it is time to go. As we all know, this is not the most comfortable sensation (if you wait too long). These sensory neurons cause contractions that can become strong enough to overcome the muscle tone holding the urethra shut and release all that urine.


* What causes the rumbling in your stomach when you have to go?
Borborygmi: rumbling sounds caused by gas moving through the intestines.

These rumbling sounds are a normal part of digestion. They are generated from muscular activity in the stomach and small intestine as the food, gas, and fluids are mixed together and pushed through the intestine. This squeezing of the muscular walls is called peristalsis. Many people associate these sounds with hunger because they are louder and echo more when the intestine is empty.

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