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If peeing in the shower is cool, consider us Miles Davis.
We’ve all been there before: you’re in the shower, minding your own business, when all of a sudden you have the urge to pee. For a brief moment, you might think, “No, I can’t! It’s too gross! My feet are touching my pee!” But the thought quickly leaves your mind, and you end up peeing in the shower.
Then the next day, you do it again. And again. And again.
You might think you’re gross for peeing in the shower, but you’re far from alone: according to an (admittedly not that scientific) survey from Angie’s List, nearly 80% of people have admitted to doing so at one point or another.
But is peeing in the shower hygienic — or, for that matter, is it actually OK for you? We asked the experts to weigh in.
Let's start out by talking about what's actually in your urine. “Urine is basically filtered waste from your bloodstream. It is composed of water, electrolytes, and urea,” says Jamin Brahmbhatt, MD, a urologist at Orlando Health.
Contrary to popular belief, urine is not actually sterile : even if you're healthy, your urine likely contains low levels of bacteria. But because there's a constant stream of running water to wash your urine down the drain, “urinating in the shower would not present any significant hygiene risks," explains Robert Glatter, MD, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Northwell Health and attending emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital.
You know that old saying, "If it's yellow, let it mellow"? Well, it's true: older toilets can use between 5 and 7 gallons of water per flush, according to the environmental nonprofit GRACE Communications Foundation's Water Footprint Calculator . So peeing in the shower saves you a flush, which is actually a decent way to cut down on your household's water use.
Doing regular Kegel exercises, or contracting and releasing your pelvic floor muscles, has been proven to " strengthen muscles and improve blood flow to the area, which is thought to help sexual function,” thus improving the quality of your orgasms and helping you last longer in bed, says Brahmbhatt.
Additionally, he says, doing Kegels in the shower "can help men improve urinary control, especially if they have had prostate surgery or nerve damage that has led to a disconnection between the bladder, prostate, and surrounding muscles."
Granted, you don't have to be in the shower to do Kegels. But if you want to get started, try stopping and starting your stream for five minutes, two to three times a day. Then "repeat contracting those muscles 10 times. Slowly contract and release,” Brahmbhatt says.
There's an old wives' tale that peeing in the shower is a good way to prevent or treat athlete’s foot , a.k.a. foot fungus. It's important to note that “there is no published evidence that urinating in the shower may help to prevent foot fungus or is a prescribed therapy to treat foot fungus,” Glatter says.
That said, urea, the nitrogenous compound found in your urine, is also present in some anti-fungal creams . It's used to soften the skin to allow the active anti-fungal agent to better penetrate the affected area, explains Glatter. "In theory, [this] could help treat or prevent a fungal infection," he says. But because urea is typically only present in urine in small amounts, you'd have to pee a lot for this to have any effect.
To sum up: if you're squeamish about bodily functions, then by all means, you should continue to micturate in the toilet like a good boy. But if you're in the shower and you really have to pee, then it likely won't do you any harm; in fact, it may even have some small benefits. So pee freely, friend.
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Peeing in the shower is one of those things a lot of people have done at some point but may be reluctant to admit. It makes such perfect sense on a practical level, though! You’re naked, and there’s a drain right there . Plus, the whole running water situation doesn’t exactly make it easy to hold in your pee.
You also may have heard that urine is sterile, so you can pee on yourself with abandon and still technically be clean. But is it really OK from a health perspective to pee in the shower, especially if you’re not scrubbing down your legs and feet after you’re done? Here, experts weigh in on this pressing question.
Your pee is mostly water, according to the Mayo Clinic . However, it can contain a bunch of other stuff, too, Stephanie Kielb, M.D., a urologist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, tells SELF. That includes urea (a waste product that forms when your body breaks down proteins), urochrome (a pigment that gives pee its color), creatinine (a waste product that forms with the normal breakdown of muscle), and ammonia (a compound that can give your pee a really strong smell when it gets too concentrated). If you’re on certain medications or take water-soluble vitamins , you may secrete those in your pee, too, Dr. Kielb says.
Together as a fluid, these various components travel from your kidneys through two thin tubes called ureters and into your bladder, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine . Your pee hangs out there until you’re ready to let loose that stream (and maybe a sigh of sweet relief, too).
If you thought urine was sterile, we can’t blame you. For a long time, many scientists did, too.
The idea stemmed from the belief that the urinary tract (which includes the bladder) was understood to be sterile, most likely because the techniques used for detecting bacteria in this area were limited . However, emerging research points to the presence of a bladder microbiome , or bacteria that normally live in harmony inside of this organ, Dr. Kielb says. Just as your gut and vagina have microbiomes, so does your urinary tract, which means some of this bacteria can wind up in your pee. This doesn’t necessarily mean anything bad; bacteria in your urinary tract can actually help keep that part of your body healthy, as it does with your gut and vagina .
However, if you have a health issue like a urinary tract infection (UTI), that bacteria can also get into your pee, David Kaufman, M.D., director of Central Park Urology , a division of Maiden Lane Medical and an assistant professor of Clinical Urology at the Weill Cornell Medical School, tells SELF.
Why should any of this influence your decision to pee in the shower? Theoretically, harmful bacteria from your pee could get into any open skin on an area like your legs and cause an infection, Gary Goldenberg , M.D., assistant clinical professor of dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, tells SELF. For instance, cellulitis, a common bacterial skin infection that typically affects the legs, can happen when the bacteria Staphylococcus gets into your system through a break in your skin, according to the Mayo Clinic . And, wouldn’t you know it, certain strains of this bacteria are also known to cause UTIs . So, if you have a UTI or one is brewing without yet causing symptoms, you could theoretically pee out some bacteria.
You might think you’d be aware of any cuts on your skin that would make a bacterial infection more likely, but even something as simple as scrubbing your skin with a physical exfoliator can cause micro-tears that give bacteria an entry point. Shaving can cause micro-tears in your skin’s surface, too.
It’s not even close to guaranteed that you’ll get a skin infection simply because a little pee streams down your legs in the shower, even if you do have an infection like a UTI. But it’s technically a risk to keep in mind nonetheless.
Aside from the very rare risk of infection that we detailed above, there’s no real health risk to peeing in the shower. And when it comes to judging how hygienic it is, that might be subjective. If you don’t want urine lingering on your body or in your tub after your shower, make sure to soap up yourself and the area before you leave the shower. And, sure, there are some things you could to make this slightly more...streamlined...like spreading your legs (so your pee doesn’t run down them) and peeing close to the drain (so urine isn’t swirling around your feet as much).
Also, even if you’re a proud shower urinator , it’s most polite to limit this habit to when you’re at home instead of in public places like the gym shower. You wouldn’t want other people to pee in there, would you? The golden rule definitely applies when it comes to peeing in the shower. Likewise, if you share your shower, you should really be cleaning the area with soap and water after you pee. Because, manners.
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You're getting clean in the shower and you suddenly feel the urge to urinate.
No one is watching, so you let it go, with a pool of yellow washing down the drain.
While it might feel like a guilty pleasure, this act could actually be damaging your pelvic floor muscles .
Urologist Dr Teresa Irwin said: "Every time you hear the sound of water your bladder is going to want to pee - because it's used to hearing the sound of the water in the shower.
"So whenever you're washing your hands, washing the dishes, your bladder is going to be salivating so to speak because it wants to go and pee."
Posting to TikTok Dr Alicia Jeffrey-Thomas explained that peeing under a running stream of water creates an association with your brain that you need to pee.
This means that you could get the urge whilst simply running the tap.
She explained: "There is the overall bladder fitness perspective and the pelvic floor perspective."
Dr Jeffrey-Thomas referred to the Pavlov's dog experiment.
"He rings the bell every time he puts food out for the dog, so eventually the dog starts to associate the bell, and he starts to slobber.
"If you pee in the shower or turn on the faucet or turn on the shower and sit on the toilet to pee while the water is running you're creating an association in the brain between the sound of running water with having to pee.
She added that this combined with pelvic floor dysfunction down the line - could lead to leak issues .
Dr Jeffrey-Thomas said this could be when you wash your hands, when you hear running water, while you wash the dishes and when you go swimming.
"Unfortunately those of us who were assigned female at birth and have that anatomy were not designed to pee standing up," she added.
Dr Jeffrey-Thomas said there are a number of traits women have that can be harmful to their pelvic health.
She listed them as "bad habits for your pelvic floor".
Dr Alicia also highlighted "peeing just in case" as a damaging trait, but said that there were some exceptions to this rule.
She said that these were peeing before bed, peeing before of after sex and peeing before a long car journey, of an hour or more.
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