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"David Hare-Scott" wrote:

Lelandite wrote:
If it's ecoli you're looking for, you'll get that aplenty by using
human urine as a fertilizer. Plus a few other fun things that
will make you run to the doctor.

It may work in helping plants grow, and if you're not going to
eat any of the product....go for it.

But to eat? nononononono

Donna
in WA


This is misleading. You are confusing using urine with the problems of
using faeces as a manure. Unless properly treated the latter is a fine
source of E Coli and a few more besides and a substantial risk to health.

As it passes out of the body (unless you have a urinary tract infection)
urine is sterile. It might possibly pick up some bugs from your skin or the
outermost reaches of the urethra but the count would be low and you are
living with all that flora on you anyway. Your whole body, especially
between knees and waist, is covered with such. If urine is then promptly
applied to your soil the risk is minuscule, no more than background from
working in the garden environment.

David
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Plenty of traditional doctors and professional skeptics will tell you
that urine therapy is a crock, but when it comes to skin care,
urine-therapy devotees may be correct. Urea, a major component of urine,
is a compound also used in many commercial moisturizing creams as a skin
softener. It's an active ingredient, for example, in Carmol 10 and 20
and in Dermal Therapy Lotion. (The makers of these lotions are not
distilling urine, by the way; their urea is manufactured in a lab.)

But that doesn't necessarily mean you can save money on moisturizer by
drinking a ton of water. As a delivery device for urea, lotion is much
more effective than pee; in order for the urea in urine to have an
effect, you'd need to soak your hands long enough for the urea to be
absorbed by your skin, at least five minutes. While there's no
hygiene-related reason not to do so‹"Urine is sterile, if a bit gross,"
writes Stanford dermatology professor Dr. Alexa Boer Kimball in an
e-mail‹those with eczema or dermatitis may see their conditions
exacerbated by contact with urine.
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