Is it gross to pee in the bath?

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One family member says yes, one says no it’s fine.

Help a sister out here.

YABU - yes it’s grim
YANBU - no what’s a bit more water?

Wow. Eyes open that some people thinking having a wee in bath is ok!!? I would've thought this was 100% no way. That's grim

Yeah, I know these hygiene/cleanliness threads always get very extreme reactions from both sides on mumsnet, and usually I'm rolling my eyes when people say things like "Omg I can't believe anyone washes their hands using shower gel" or something nonsense like that, but I genuinely thought the vote would be more or less unanimous against bathing in your own piss.

How is this even a question. You are sitting there in your own piss, of course it's disgusting! The only time it's even remotely acceptable is when you have a tear/issue where it is the only comfortable way (but still disgusting)

My three month old DD wees in the bath and I don't change the water

Yuk!surely nobody does this?mind I heard a friend day her exdh used to pleasure himself in the bath and lay in it......😕.
Having a wee in the shower is also a no for me.

Actually, although I do think it is disgusting to do this, I was reminded that actually normal urine is sterile, and that is why you can drink it if you are stranded in the desert with no fresh water! Eurghhhh!

I don't bath so it's nit an option but am these people that don't peen in the bath do you go swimming in public pools? I'm sure they are full of piss and other bodily fluids chlorine or no chlorine.

I'd rather sit in my own dilute piss in a bath if I had to.

Hi Op totally agree with others it is Gross why on earth would anybody want to sit,stew in their own waste discharge pee, I think having a pee when having a shower is not as bad gross if desperate, especially if with bladder problems too.

This is grim. Bathing in your own piss??? WTF

@AriettyHomily

I don't bath so it's nit an option but am these people that don't peen in the bath do you go swimming in public pools? I'm sure they are full of piss and other bodily fluids chlorine or no chlorine.

I'd rather sit in my own dilute piss in a bath if I had to.

They're both gross. Chlorine does make a big difference though.

But more to the point, if I want to go swimming, I don't really have a choice. If I could choose between a pool people have pissed in and one they haven't, I'd obviously choose the latter! And guess what, I can very easily choose to not bathe in my own piss.

I get out to pee but sometimes top up the bath & get in after the kids. I know there's a good chance they've pee'd in it. Meh it's so diluted.

Fine, bath and shower. Always would shower afterwards though.

I think having a wee in the shower is ok,as its imediately flushed away and obviously you can wash yourself afterwards...you got to be having a giraffe about pooing in the shower 😊😕 surely !!!??

To be fair I find baths in general pretty gross –you're sitting in your own dirty water and then pouring it over yourself...

Whatever dirt or bodily secretions were around your nether regions is floating about in that water anyway.

So on that basis, sod it.

Might as well –if you're well hydrated, your urine may even be cleaner than the bathwater you're soaking in!

I can't stop my 18 month old from standing up and peeing during bath time. It's his party trick and he's very proud of it. If I faffed about changing the water during his tired and fraught bedtime routine every night I'd have given myself an aneurysm by now. I figure baby wee doesn't count, comes out like Evian and is a lot less than an adult would do! But no I would never wee in my own bath water.

@Pascha

I can't believe there are some voters that think it's OK 🤮

Neither can I. FGS just go to the loo before you get in the bath. It isn't difficult.

The reason most ppl have a bath is to clean themselves so why you'd want to go for a piss and then sit in it and smell of piss is beyond me

Lots of tramps on here

Yuck! Unless there’s some medical reason for not like other posters have said, even then I’d have to shower after! I’d feel unclean!

You know there's already something in the bathroom that's designed to pee in, right?

Another one here who can't believe so many people do this, it's never even occurred to me.

Baths are gross anyway, soaking in a soup of your bum sweat, discharge, sweat and grime. What's a bit of extra bodily fluid.

soaking in a soup of your bum sweat, discharge, sweat and grime

Radox should use that in their next advertising campaign.

If you are just about to get out of the bath? not so bad.

Peeing, then continuing to lay in it is grim.

The professionally outraged are out in force this evening

96% water. I'm fine with that. Makes not a pin of difference.

Honestly. There are more things to worry about than a pee in the bath.

I do wonder if I will get told off if I do it when I'm an old lady (if in care home). Let's hope that never happens and I can keep my bath habits to myself.

Any care home workers have a take on this?

Urine is not sterile.