As of: January 30, 2024, 11:10 a.m
By: Juliane Gutmann
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Do you urinate in the shower?
“Yes, often.
For me there is nothing wrong with it”: That was the most common answer in a representative IPPEN.MEDIA survey.
That has advantages.
Almost 37,000 people out of a total of over 77,000 survey participants came out as “shower urinators”.
For around 18,000, relieving themselves in the shower was not an option.
Around 17,700 survey participants leave water in the shower “every now and then”.
The rest abstained from voting (as of July 25, 2023).
These results suggest that around half of all Germans also use the shower as a toilet.
This is usually harmless, as Andreas Timmel, dermatologist at the Rügen Skin Center, explains in the
t-online
interview.
“Otherwise, urinating in the shower is no problem”
However, he restricts that people with very dry skin should not urinate in the shower.
In this case, contact with urine can promote dehydration, as Timmel says.
You should also avoid peeing in the shower if you have skin injuries.
“Otherwise, urinating in the shower is not a problem,”
t-online
quoted the expert as saying.
When the shower becomes a toilet: If you let water in here, you save water.
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Interesting facts about “urinating in the shower” at a glance:
Saving time and water: two arguments that turn many people into “shower urinators”.
Up to 30 percent of daily drinking water consumption goes to flushing toilets, which makes urinating in the shower a resource-saving measure.
For hygiene reasons, the Federal Association of German Urologists recommends running the shower while urinating in order to immediately flush the liquid down the drain.
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Water is better for intimate cleaning than toilet paper because it does not cause friction.
There is no scientific basis to claim that urinating on the affected area of skin helps with fungal infections or skin conditions such as eczema.
If your skin is dry, contact with urine can worsen dehydration.
This article only contains general information on the respective health topic and is therefore not intended for self-diagnosis, treatment or medication. It in no way replaces a visit to the doctor. Unfortunately, our editors are not allowed to answer individual questions about medical conditions.
This article was created using machine assistance and was carefully checked by editor Juliane Gutmann before publication.