Does your body temp drop after taking a leak?

[Paddy]

oh, btw I forgot to speak to the consultant nephrologist.


(In case any one wondered, I am only a second-year)

[PurpleHaze]

Well I have to ask why this thread only has to do with men.

I hate to break it to you guys, I mean, it might shatter your airbrushed images of us, but women do pee.

It's a fact.

I've got a bladder and I know it. (I haven't -seen- it but all signs point to its existence.)

I don't think there's much of a... physiological difference in urination between genders... Uh - i mean, unless you're brought up in some kind of strange religious sect that uh - erm. okay. i'll put the keibash on that.

But my take on it is this. And forgive me if it's a repeat because I really did just browse the topic. (And everyone, I know, has been waiting for Ami's take on pee, right?)

When you gotta pee, you're tense. I mean. you gotta pee, right? Have you ever seen ANYONE, male or female, sitting around, kicked back, feet up on the coffee table, smile on their face, you ask them "What's up?" and they reply "Oh hey! I gotta pee. Wanna watch ER?"

M. No. Usually it involves hopping around and walking funny.

This could raise your temperature - because you're anxious, because, well, you gotta pee, and that's not the most relaxing sensation around.

After you finally do the deed, well, it's relaxing. A load is off your shoulders (Well, okay, maybe not a load, per se, and maybe not your shoulders either, but you know what I mean) and it's time to relax - you're empty! Talk about luxury! You can sing, dance, run the Boston marathon, you have an empty bladder! That freedom would make your heart rate slow, and lower your body temperature.

You have peed. and all is well.



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[Brian R.]

OK, I got the chemistry. Bodies do not heat or cool during peeing. The pee lost is body temperature and does not change the body's temperature by leaving. What has changed is an individual's heat capacity. Once the water is dispelled, it takes less heat to warm you, assuming no body temperature control. All in all, the body's temperature control prevents heating or cooling. No temperature change occurs.



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[Muad'Dib]

Guys guys guys (and gals too). You got it all wrong. It's not about temperature lost/gained here. I'm surprised it took 47 posts to get to this point, but now it's time for me to impart you with a little bit of knowledge. What this is all about, is once you have "done the deed 'at hand'," you get to go back and drink more beer!!! C'Mon, I know you all know that.... Speakin of which, I'm going to take my own advise and I'll see you all tomorrow (hopefully I don't sleep all of tomorrow away... ).

Dimitri

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[cjolley]

Dimitri,
Iyyyeeeeeee....
I was wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The beer cools you.
This combined with your lowered gross heat capacity could lead to a LOWERING OF BODY TEMP AFTER PEEING!
chuck

ps Things must be realy slow at school
for you to resurrect this puppy!

[McRhea]

What the hell? What is this doing back at the top? Hehehe... Still going, and going, and going, and going, and going....

[Muad'Dib]

no no chuck, it was at the top again (I don't claim to know why, but it wasn't me....) so I figured I'd let you all in on a "little secret."

Dimitri