How come water doenst penetrate inside our body when we take a bath?
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The answer to your first question is - no, not entirely. The answer to your second question is - it does, that's why your skin gets "puckered" when you are in the bath for too long.\n\nThe skin has pours that open and close, when you are hot these pours open and you often sweat, this is also how you flush some toxins and bacteria from your system, which is why hot baths are good with mineral oils. It's also one of the dangers of showering in chlorinated water, as the chlorine can seep through the pours of your skin, and slowly poison you.
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We all learn from our mistakes honey, even scientists. Your a scientist aren't you? You check the temperature of the shower water before you step in!! Experience has told you that you should check or you'll get hurt. Or do you belong to the branch of scientists - who dont experiment.\nGet over it!!!
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Your bath water is probably heavilly contaminated with dihydrogen monoxide and that's why you are getting the strange sensations. Take a sample of your bath water to a chemical laboratory and ask them to test for dihydrogen monoxide contamination. \n\nDihydrogen monoxide is responsible for more deaths every year than any other chemical.
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your blood sugar is really high, and when it gets high to a certain point the sugar gets into your urine, and the sugar absorbs water out of your body so it makes you pee more so you have to drink more to make up for the water you lose
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I've thought about that question myself not so long ago so I did a little research. From what I found out there is an oil on our skin called sebum which is responsible for waterproofing our skin. When our bodies, specifically our phlangies (fingers and toes) are in water for too long the sebum is washed away and our skin starts to absorb the water. When our skin starts to absorb water the deep tissue in our palms and heels begins to swell but the tougher skin in that area withstands the swelling of the tissue and remains taunt but the skin of the fingers and toes which is not so firmly attached to the deep tissue wrinkles.
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Unfortunately the answer above is not entirely correct for this context. (although the statement is correct).\n\nThe reason why water is used is because of its large specific heat capacity.  \n\nThat is also the reason why when we run (and because our bodies are mainly water), the the body temperature does not rise excessively because of the body’s high heat capacity.
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Yes. Gas exchange does take place through human skin. There are tiny pores on our skin that actually breathe. Let me give you a practical example. Know why splashing water on your face makes you feel fresh? The reason is that water washes away the dirt and sweat from the pores making them clean and allowing the oxygen to pass freely. The breathing is somewhat less than 150ml/hr. The oxygen breathed by the pores makes feel active. it's just like the stomata under the plant leaves.
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If you don't bathe properly it can cause many problems for you.
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Even though you can't see it, your skin is covered with its own special oil called sebum (say: see-bum). Sebum is found on the outermost layer of skin. Sebum moistens, or lubricates (say: loo-bruh-kaytes), and protects your skin. It also makes your skin a bit waterproof. That's why water runs off your skin when you wash your hands, instead of soaking it in like a sponge would. \n\nBut staying in water for a long time washes away the sebum. Then, the water can penetrate the outer layer of your skin. This causes your skin to become waterlogged. So how does this lead to wrinkles?  No one is really sure. \n\nSome people think it's because the skin expands to allow extra water inside. The expanded skin ends up looking really wrinkly. Other people think that it's because the skin is tied down to the tissue underneath in certain places. So when the skin is full of water, it swells up (gets puffy), but only in places where it is not tied down, which makes it look wrinkly.
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Your body works best when its temperature is about 98.6º Fahrenheit (37º Celsius). When your body gets hotter than that, your brain doesn't like it — it wants your body to stay cool and comfortable. So the part of your brain that controls temperature, called the hypothalamus (say: hy-po-thal-uh-mus), sends a message to your body, telling it to sweat.\n\nThen special glands in your skin called — what else? — sweat glands start making sweat. Sweat is also known as perspiration (say: pur-spuh-ray-shun), and it is made almost completely of water, with tiny amounts of other chemicals like ammonia (say: uh-mown-yuh), urea (say: yoo-ree-uh), salts, and sugar. (Ammonia and urea are left over when your body breaks down protein.)\n\nThe sweat leaves your skin through tiny holes called pores. When the sweat hits the air, the air makes it evaporate (this means it turns from a liquid to a vapor). As the sweat evaporates off your skin, you cool down.\n\nSweat is a great cooling system, but if you're sweating a lot on a hot day or after playing hard you could be losing too much water through your skin. Then you need to put liquid back in your body by drinking plenty of water so you won't get dehydrated (say: dee-hi-drayt-ed).\n\n\n\nWhy Does Sweat Smell?\nSweat isn't just wet — it can be kind of stinky, too. But the next time you get a whiff of yourself after running around outside and want to blame your sweat glands, hold on! Sweat by itself doesn't smell at all. It's the bacteria that live on your skin that mix with the sweat and give it a stinky smell. And when you reach puberty, special hormones affect the glands in your armpits — these glands make sweat that can really smell.\n\nLuckily, regular washing with soap and water can usually keep stinky sweat under control. Many teens and adults also find that wearing deodorant (say: dee-oh-der-ent) or antiperspirant (say: an-tee-pur-sper-ent) helps.\n\nSo don't worry about a little sweat — it's totally normal and everybody sweats. Sometimes too much sweating can be a sign that there is something wrong in the body, but this is rare in kids. If you notice more sweat, it's usually just a sign that it's time to start using a deodorant or antiperspirant. But if you think you have a sweat problem, talk to your parent or your doctor about it.
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It's due to the rotation of the Earth - specifically the Coriolis Effect. See http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=Coriolis+Effect\n\nMy answer assumes you have a circular toilet which drains right down the middle and recieves no directional impulse from the water flowing in ;-). ie. Under strict controlled conditions, you can make water spin in opposite directions as it drains through a hole.
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the water that gets trapped in your ear is really bad.. normally your ear works its magic and the water drips out, but if you cant get it out use an alcohol solution that will rinse the ear and then evaporate\n\nNEVER use a Qtip.. cause you can seriously hurt your inner ear
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someone who takes baths
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Taking a water pill helps to get all the excess fluid out of your body.  Excess fluid in the body puts excess fluid in the blood.  The increase in blood volume from the excess fluid causes the pressure to rise.
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No basis for this one other than after you eat, your body typically shunts blood to the digestive tract and away from the brain and skeletal muscle.  With physical activity this shunting would be over ridden, POSSIBLY, MAYBE precipitating a cramp.  I have never heard of it actually playing a role in any water accident.
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You are open to the absolute vacuum of space. Now if you understand vacuums the tighter it is the higher potential pressure on anything containing matter. Therefore when exposed to a vacuum all the fluids of your body will rapidly escape with the thin layers of flesh not even slowing them down. Think of a water balloon that has been overfilled.
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Yea, well the water will splash and get on your legs or whatever when you walk out of the spray.  And then it will go down the drain.  And when youre under the spray, your body doesnt like absorb the water so of course it is gonna hit the tub, because it has to hit the tub to hit the drain.