PEE

[kitbabingley]

IS NOT STERILE!!

^^ This has been a public service announcement on behalf of all those, like myself, who are fed up with seeing/hearing myths like this presented as facts (often in a very smug manner) all over the place. I have no idea how this particular one came to be, but it is incredibly pervasive.

What are your "fgs NO" facts that you NEED to clear up?

OneTimeintheSunshine
'It repeats on me' means it makes you burp a lot, thereby repeating the 'flavour' in your mouth. Boak.

Pee is so much better for anyone older than 5. Can't stand 'wee' so babyish.

These are interesting but I'm not sure I want to learn that something I've always known is actually wrong!

Mooncuppy and Sunshine.
When I was a girl, I was brought up to think, that you could not wash your hair until your period was over.
Rammed down my throat by female family members.
My lovely gym teacher at school, let me wash my hair after games lesson.
Thank you lovely lady xxx

P.S. I could catch a chill and die.

There is no such thing as "night starvation" and so dear mother in law you do not need to take a cheese sandwich up to bed "just in case" you get it. (AND YOU ALWAYS LEAVE THE SARNIE!)

Another teacher tuning in for a paragraph bashing rant! 😀

Urine IS sterile when passed / collected as a proper midstream specimen uncontaminated with " bum germs". Why else would " no growth" be the way we decide whether you have a Ito when urine goes to the lab ?

Op what have you been reading?

Another teacher here who thought PEE = Point Evidence Explain

I once tried to change it to PEEL = Point Evidence Explain Link to avoid the blushes.

Anyway, sorry for derailing OP

BeautyQueenFromMars thank you for explaining what it repeats on me means. That one has been bugging me for years!

I think this settles the question of whether urine is sterile:

www.sciencenews.org/blog/gory-details/urine-not-sterile-and-neither-rest-you

Yet another teacher thinking 'OOH, could I use this for SATS revision?' Enjoy the bank holiday, teachers, and switch off your teaching brain for a bit...

Anyway, my mum swore blind that lifting my hands over my head when pg would make the cord wrap around the baby's neck. My mum is a highly intelligent woman but doesn't half spout some shit sometimes.

Helen the link that hack posted, the same one that I linked in my above post. As well as numerous other things. Trust me, it's not sterile. Not a scientist so can't give you a scientific explanation, but it's definitely true...

I thought PEE was a condition that people thought was making people sterile. Took me a minute to work out what pee was. When I think of the nappies I've changed and the children I've toilet trained you would think I know what pee is.

I've had six people tell me it's 'illegal' for siblings of opposite sex over the age of ten to share a bedroom. Of course it's not fucking illegal. (not that it applies to me so no idea why so many people tell me!)

My mum used to tell me that wearing a coat that didn't cover my bum would result in a chill in my kidneys.
Err…
What IS a chill exactly? How is it an internal organ connected to a nice warm blood supply could become so chilled, unless I'm hypothermic and it really wasn't that cold.
And why just my kidneys? Surely my bladder and uterus would be at equal risk? Not to mention my intestines.
She never could tell me what this mysterious illness called 'a chill' actually was.
Also, eating a piece of dry pasta won't end up with it swelling up and up and up until it makes you ill.

Also, its not possible to poison yourself with potassium by eating lots of bananas. Unless you have serious kidney issues.
They don't give you constipation either.
My aunt still believes this and was 😱😱 that I let my toddler have TWO bananas in one day.
He's eaten four in a day before now and remains perfectly healthy and believe me, he is not constipated.

If you have toothache put an aspirin on the gum next to the tooth cos we all stick aspirin on our foreheads when we have a headache don't we?

Just thought of another one. You don't get "egg bound" from eating too many eggs. Hens get egg bound when they can't lay an egg that's formed.

Ooohhh I have some myth busting facts!

It's rare to be completely blind or deaf!

People think being legally blind or deaf means you have no remaining use of those senses when actually less than 10% are completely blind/deaf. Many people have residual sight or hearing, some more than others some see shadows or shapes some hear very low/high/loud sounds.

Medically being deaf means you have hearing loss. So yes, hard of hearing means deaf and if you want to youre welcome in the Deaf community.

Deaf = culturally deaf and grew up in the deaf community and very likely knows sign language.
deaf = has some sort of hearing loss.

Also, being in a wheel chair does not mean you're paralyzed!
It's not a MIRACLE when Someone stands up from their chair. They use it because it helps them. I have friends with hypermobility syndrome and they use chairs when they know they can't walk far that day.

Little bit of disability knowledge for you _
I work in a busy shop and I'm legally registered as deaf, another lady is legally blind anyone guy is deaf in one ear :) busting preconceptions and we help each other ;)

Actually a drop in body temperature can suppress the immune system.

www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/health/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/health/why-do-we-catch-more-colds-when-the-temperature-drops-blame-our-immune-system

Sorry, link got left off.

All by chance by the way, my boss doesn't go out of her way to recruit disabled people, she didn't know these things about us when she hired us!

The test for flu is not whether you could get out of bed for a £50 note or whatever other arbitrary measures people come up with. You can have flu and be asymptomatic. You can have flu and just feel a bit under the weather.

A cold is not "weak flu".

Ooh and on a similar note, the flu vaccine cannot give you flu.