Expert warns: peeing in the shower can be dangerous!
The benefits of peeing in the shower are obvious: you save water (a toilet flush less!) And toilet paper? and therefore also money. Moreover, it is only urine, which may even be healthy (keyword: self-urine therapy) and what may even run more hygienic under the shower, as if you sit on the bacteria-contaminated toilet seat.
Contain bacteria in the urine
Opposite the online magazine Self explains the urologist Stephanie Kielb of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicinethat the pee under the shower is normally harmless. After all, urine consists largely of water with some urea, a few metabolic products (mainly urochrome, creatine and ammonia) and a few bacteria.
Healthy humans are bacteria that are naturally present in our bladder, to give them e.g. to protect against infections. However, if one has bacteria in the body, e.g. Cause urinary tract infections, are these also contained in the urine? and then the peeing in the shower becomes tricky.
Cellulite by peeing in the shower?
"Theoretically, harmful bacteria from urine could enter vacancies in the skin and cause infection," says Gary Goldenberg, assistant clinical dermatologist at Icahn School of Medicine (New York). If certain bacteria enter the body through open wounds, they can even cause cellulite, according to Goldenberg.
Sometimes a small cut with the razor blade is enough to give the bacteria entry under the skin. However, the risk is low, the experts confirm. As a rule, there is no health risk when peeing in the shower. Thank God ...
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