If it makes you feel better: when you’re swimming, you’re sweating buckets. So most are probably just dehydrated.
That was my first thought. When I was 15, I went to the doctor for vision loss and migraines. Always happened after surfing. He quickly pointed out that being in the water for hours and hours doesn’t mean I’m not dehydrating and to come in for water breaks every couple of hours. Voila! Problems solved. Felt like an idiot.
Also, a lot of people, myself included, make it a point to go to the bathroom before swimming.
And I don’t usually consume food or drinks until I am (almost) done with swimming. A four hour stretch of just recreational swimming and chilling is easy without food or drink.
The secret is to drink lots of water before going in. Then you can pee without worry.
“You can’t pee in the pool!”
“But everyone does that…?”
“They don’t do it from the springboard!”
According to several sites, on average, there’s about 8 gallons of urine in your average in-ground swimming pool or 2 gallons in your typical above-ground pool.
Luckily urine is 95% water and chlorine and filtration removes the rest.
So it’s safe to drink?
eh… it wouldnt kill you.
I guess one could say you’d …survive.
The smell of “pool” is actually the smell of piss. Without piss chlorine has a much less potent smell.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/01/517785902/just-how-much-pee-is-in-that-pool
Correct me if I’m mistaken, but iirc it is the smell of the chlorine reacting with any pollutant, not just pee. Skin cells and skin oils will make it smell like that, too.
How do they know nobody exited the pool to pee?
Like did they exit and they assume they didn’t pee or did they not exit at all and therefore must have peed in the pool. I have a great bladder, the greatest bladder in fact lol. Really though I can go more than 4 hours without peeing.
I used to be able to go 12, then I developed thirst, and I have to drink water every 20 minutes
How do they know nobody exited the pool to pee?
I’m assuming it’s a smaller pool where they can see everyone
Like did they exit and they assume they didn’t pee or did they not exit at all and therefore must have peed in the pool.
My interpretation was the latter
I have a great bladder, the greatest bladder in fact lol. Really though I can go more than 4 hours without peeing.
Maybe everyone is drinking so holding it is unlikely?
Did you forget to attach the meme?
Forgot how lemmy worked for a second
