Can you survive by drinking your own urine

How long can one survive drinking nothing but one’s own urine??

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You can safely do this three cycles through your system. After that, the urine is too concentrated and can be harmful.

Can you drink your own urine to survive in the desert??

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No. It’s sterile, but drinking it is counterproductive. Your kidneys are very efficient at concentrating urine when you need to conserve fluid, and drinking concentrated urine is about as useful as drinking salt water. You will just end up …

CAN YOU SURVIVE IN THE DESERT BY DRINKING YOUR OWN URINE??

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You can for at least a couple days, but after a while the impurties of the pee pee can have a toxic affect and make you very ill. As well, the salinity (saltiness) of the chi chi may actually speed up the dehydration. Captian James Riley,…

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How long can you survive drinking your own urine?

Q: The water supply has been cut off from my house for the last 3 days while repairs are being made to a water pipe down the street. Since I have no running water I’ve been drinking my own urine as there is nothing else available. The workmen tell me they can’t accurately guess when it will be fixed and I wonder how long it is advisable to keep doing this?

A: MY 5 YEAR OLD BROTHER DRINKS HIS OWN URINE

how long can the average man survive by just drinking his own urine?

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A: Urine has concentrated salts which will build in the body, with potentially deadly effects, after only a day of drinking urine. The urine will get darker and darker and lead to kidney failure.I guess a day or so would be better than no water at all, but it’s not medically recommended.

How long could you survive if you had only your own urine to drink?

Q: How many times could a person drink their own urine before the urine would lose all nutritional value?

A: Many years ago (45-50) a woman thought of this as a method to keep her family alive when their car broke down going across a desert and came up with a method of filtering the urine so they wouldn’t swallow toxins. She, her husband, and two children were found, alive, two weeks later. It’s not the nutritional value that’s important, it’s the replenishing of fluid so the internal organs don’t begin to leach fluid to other body parts under more stress. The heart and brain demand most of the “attention” which is why, in dire circumstances, such as these, it’s important to expend as little energy as possble and be out of the direct sun. I keep a gallon of water in my car “just in case” along with a litter box, litter, bath towel, lawn & leaf black bags, white plastic bags, paper towels, baby-wipes and 3 cooler chests.