Everything about urine

Urine consists of all the waste products from the blood the body does not need. The fluids end up in the bladder through the kidneys and from this storage tank the urine leaves the body.

Body

Humans pee at least a liter a day. This depends on what you do and how warm or cold it is. When you drink a lot you have to go to the toilet more often, but when it is warm and you are sweating you have to go less often. The blood transports the water throughout the body, because everything needs water. The blood is checked at the kidneys, since it should not be too watery, too acidic or too salty. The kidneys filter the waste products from the blood, which then flows to the bladder. This storage tank stretches like a balloon. The urine leaves the body when the bladder is full enough and opens.

Urinating in public

Urinating in public is prohibited now and you can get a fine for it, but in the past there were no toilets and everyone urinated where they wanted to. It was perfectly normal to see someone have a pee by the side of the road. The invention of the first toilet, the piss-pot, changed all this. The piss-pot is not a real toilet, though, as the pots lay around everywhere and everyone still urinated in front of other people.

Drinking urine

Most people want nothing to do with urine. They think it simply nasty. Some people, however, love the yellow fluid and drink it, instead of milk, fruit juice or tea, at breakfast every morning. They gargle and rinse their mouth with the urine when they have, for example, a sore throat. Some even poor it into their ears when they have an ear infection and others pee on their warts. In Africa they go even further. There they put cow urine in their milk. They believe this brings good luck.

Wet pants through laughter

It happens regularly that people, especially young children, wet their pants because they are laughing so hard. This cannot be helped; you are powerless, because the brain no longer sends out signals to the muscles, which makes them flaccid. The muscle that keeps your urine in your bladder also goes flaccid, so everything comes out. You have no control over this at all.

Sources: www.todio.nl