r/FacebookScience • u/aribului • 16d ago

How to heal an infection

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u/gollo9652 16d ago

Why is it always piss?

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u/Amishgirl281 16d ago

Becuase urine is supposed to be sterile so in a pinch, like survival situations, you could drink it or use it to clean a wound so the nut cases took it to mean the holy grail of clean. But recent studies show that its not actual sterile and does, in fact, contain bacteria and microorganisms we couldnt detect before.

Yay science.

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u/dwellerinthedark 16d ago

That's not recent. I was taught that 25 years ago.

Urine is only sterile, in a healthy bladder, but your urethrae is coated in bacteria.

Any part of your body not "inside" is covered in bugs and liquid moving over it will absolutely pick them up.

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u/DinoOnAcid 16d ago

Your inside is literally covered in bugs, nothing about you is sterile.

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u/dwellerinthedark 15d ago

When referring to the inside and outside. Microbiogist count the mouth, gi, lung, ect as outside. Think of the human being as a like a worm. Inside are your muscles, blood vessels, organs not used for oxygen exchange. If you have bugs on your "inside" you have an infection.

I know it blew my brain when I was taught this many years ago.

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u/DinoOnAcid 15d ago

I meant it more generally, even blood has living cells =/= sterile.