I get yelled at all the time by my wife cuz i go pee pee in our pool. She says I should think about our kids who swim there, and about hygiene, and yada yada yada, a bunch of other stuff, i usually don't pay attention or I'd give more examples. Anyway, I tell her the chlorine will take care of the problem which I actually don't think it's a problem because urine is suppose to have lots of protein and even some diabetics drink it and it's supposed to lower their blood sugar levels or something crazy like that. Anyway, is she exaggerating or am i just naive and innocent? I say it's the first option.
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Keep the chlorine level at 1.5 ppm and shock regularly and it is not a problem. It is, however, not socially acceptable. But no one is going to get a disease from it-- IF the chemicals are maintained properly. We "carry" a lot of foreign matter into a pool when we go in. Saliva, dead skin, hair, dandruff, etc., etc. That's why pool sanitizers are necessary! Plus, a pool being an open vessel, is constantly bombarded with air borne contamination. Rain water does infinately more damage to a pool than a little urine.
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i'd be more worried about diabetes...frequent urination is one of the most common symptoms
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Always pleased to further the resaerch into diabetes and it's effects. I have been diabetic for 10 years now and still struggle with the fact i have it. I thinl there should be some kind of couselling form newly diagnosed diabetics but... yeah send those questions on. joelle@melvern.co.uk
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Yeah I agree. I've been saying for ages that if we have a bladder control problem, indigestion, AIDS, HIV, herpes, hemoroids, etc. then you have probably went to the doctor for these problems. Once there I'm sure the doctor gave you medicne for this. Why do they feel the need to advertise for this sort of stuff. Like if they didnt advertise tampons no one would use them? Yeah right! They need to get real.
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from a diabetic myself who is taking the same drug...first of your sugar is quite high to be thristy all the time, it will subside in time, as your sugar get under control the thrist will ease, stay away from fruit juices and sugars, water is fine, you can drink all you want and can hold...if you need any more answears feel free to write me and good luck
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It's cost effective is likely the main reason, besides the significant public health concern. \n\nWhen chlorine treatment was introduced in the early 1900's diseases like typhoid, cholera, and dysentery were commonly carried in drinking water and chlorination effectively eliminated them. BUT:\nI quote:\n"... the July [1992]  issue of the American Journal of Public Health, researchers found that people who regularly drink tap water containing high levels of chlorinated hydrocarbons have a greater risk of developing bladder and rectal cancers than people who drink unchlorinated water.  The study estimates that about 9% of all bladder and 18% of all rectal cancer cases are associated with long-term consumption of these hydrocarbons.  This amounts to over 20,000 new cases each year!"\n\nEuropean water treatment has largely shifted to ozone and filtration, and they have found it works. Plus the chlorine residuals are about 10 times less than in US water. \n\nYour question is timely for me because my public water company just sent me a letter announcing that the drinking water was above regulatory limits for trihalomethanes-and this is caused by chlorination. Dibromochloromethane is associated with cancer risk of one per million at 0.6 micrograms per liter. That's about the same as 6 parts per billion. Not terrible odds at 1 per million, but I don't like that ppb since the smallest I can measure in the lab is probably about 3 parts per billion. In other words, it’s barely measurable.\n\nAnything like water that one consumes in large quantities daily for year after year deserves some attention. I am often the first to dismiss the latest crazy report about something else that will kill me, but with water it is statistically different. I see no choice but to filter drinking water. What else can you do?  \n\nFluoride? Well, you probably get a fair amount in your toothpaste. It’s normally kept around 1 ppm in drinking water so I doubt it is really that much of a problem. I suspect that using fluoride cuts down on the amount of chlorine needed so it may not always add to costs of treatment.
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Assuming your doc has already ruled out diabetes (which I imagine they would have)... it might be something as simple as an imbalance in the hormones your body produces during the night.  Your body produces a hormone called anti-diuretic hormone (or ADH) that tells your kidneys to slow down and not excrete as much water from your system when your body needs to conserve water.  Normally, this hormone is released automatically at night, which is why most people can sleep for 8 hours without needing to urinate even though they couldn't go nearly that long without urinating during the daytime.  It could just be that your body for whatever reason isn't releasing enough ADH at night (or maybe even reversing the nighttime and daytime cycles), so that your kidneys just keep churning out urine during the night and it's more than your bladder can handle.  (In children this is thought to be a frequent cause of bed-wetting, but even if you're waking up in time to go to the bathroom and avoid wetting the bed, you could still have the same basic problem.)\n\nAsk your doctor about this... if that might be what's going on, there's a synthetic version of ADH that you might be able to take at night to reduce the symptoms and help you sleep better.  This isn't the only possibility, but it might be worth considering.  Good luck!
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a friend of mine was diagnosed with diabetes, her only symptom was.....wanting to pee all the time, and not passing much pee when she went.\n\nif it's not that. I am sorry, i dont know, but it may be worth getting a second opinion
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If nothing else, it can't hurt to call your doctor about this.  The peeing a lot could be something as major as diabetes, or something as minor as you are drinking more water.  You also could have a virus.  Your doc is the only person who can really help figure these things out.\n\nI don't think the lack of sweet would cause a loss in energy and weakness. If you sugar level is going down, eat some fruit, or protein and that will give you energy.\n\nGood luck - and call your doc.
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When urine, sweat or other organic contaminants react with chlorine in pool water it produces what is called a chloromine. Chloromines cause the "chlorine odor" in swimming pools and can cause irritation to your eyes. \n\nChlorine really doesn't have much of an odor and this is easily confirmed.   A swimming pool only needs 1.5 or 2.0 ppm (parts per million) of a free availble chlorine residual to keep the pool water disinfected. A one gallon jug of liquid chlorine (sodium hypochlorite) is 12.5 % chlorine. The rest is referred to as "inert ingredients". Anyway, if we break down a jug of chlorine to ppm it comes out to 125,000ppm chlorine per gallon. That's 125,000ppm!!! Remember we only need 1.5ppm to keep our pool disinfected. Now take a whiff of the chlorine WHILE IT'S STILL IN THE JUG. It will have a very low odor. However, a swimming pool with a normal or lower chlorine residual (almost a 100,000 times lower) will smell like chlorine. Why? Because the existing chlorine in the water has combined with the organics to form a chloromine. \n\nBy the way, how do we get rid of that odor? Simple, we superchlorinate the water, which means adding usually 6 to 10 times the normal amount of chlorine to the water. This will oxidize the water of the exisiting chloromines and leave a normal residual of around 1.5 to 2.0 ppm.\n\nI know this may sound goofy to some people, but if you smell chlorine in a pool, to get rid of the smell, add more chlorine because the smell is NOT chlorine. It's true.
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Your bladder is like spouses and children. It is activated by a button on your a*s. As long as you are standing around doing nothing, you are safe from disruptions. Sit down and, well, you push the button! It can also activate the phone, door bell and In-Laws. You can't fight it man. All you can do is try to ignore it but that will only last a short time. Sorry dude, welcome to life on planet Earth!  lol
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My friend's son is a quad r/t a car accident. He has a low blood pressure all the time but I never heard of him complain of any head itching. He had a lot of bladder problems, like frequent infections, then they clipped the urinary spincter so he can wear a condom catheter at all times, instead of an indwelling urinary catheter. Urine constantly leaks into the condom cath.  He still has infections but not as many. The problem with them doing this is that if he ever was able to have a sex life, which he still has the desire to do, then it is a problem with urine constantly leaking out. He was only 16 when this accident happened, now he's 25, and he had never experienced sex.  He can't even cough and remove secretions on his own whenever he gets a cold .Really it's so sad & he amazes me with his positive attitude. He is able to do a little with his hands and move his arms, but not able to perform fine motor movements. He can use a special fork to feed himself, and can use a device placed on his hand to type on the computer. He dials the phone with his tongue and answers it the same way, with a special device on the phone that helps him hook it on his hand. He went to college and got a degree in computer programming a couple of years ago but hasn't been able to get employment yet. Another thing I hear him complain about is muscle spasms for which he takes medications These can occur if he changes position, exposed to temperature changes & sometimes for no reason. He takes medication for that and something to prevent bladder/kidney infections. That's all the meds that I know of that he takes. I hope this info helps. These are things I saw first hand and things he talked to me about.
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Have you tried drinks like Ensure or even childrens pedialyte so you can at least get some vitamins into your system. The stawberry Ensure isn't to bad and its a whole meal in a can!
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with my experience If I drink allot of water I start to crave MORE watter the next day. BUT needing to drink allot of water is a sign of Diabetes so if it continues I would go to a doc and check it out. :)
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I would say you should just be honest with her and voice your concerns. Ask her outright is she's having a problem. You're married to her and honesty is probably your best route. Just let her know that you want to help her and you care about her... Otherwise, if you don't mind risking getting caught and having a very angry wife if she finds out, you could buy a drug test. They sell them online. I suppose you could trick your wife into giving a urine sample somehow... maybe tell her you want to try something new in your sex life? Or just stick a bowl or something in the toilet and hope she doesn't see it? Maybe if you get in good with her doctor you could ask him to give her a drug test without telling her?
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My youngest step daughter used to wet her bed in the early hours of the morning.  We stopped this by getting her up just before we went to bed around 11pm and taking her to the toilet.  Also restricted drinks after 5pm.  During the day, we just asked every so often if she needed to go to the loo.  And if too longer gap between visits she had to go and try even if she thought she didnt need to go.  Also the bed wetting and "accidents" were down played to being no big deal so as to not associate negative stuff with the whole thing.  Most kids either get too caught up in what they are doing or having to much fun to notice they need to go to the loo or they can be stressed about other events in their lives.
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I can only find information regarding negative reactions to probiotics affecting kidneys. This obviously doesn't mean that it does not happen, but if this was a common problem, there would be more research and information on it. \nWhen you went to see the doctors, did they agree with you that it was the probiotics that were causing your problems? Did they do other tests to rule out other kidney problems? If your doctor did not help, maybe you could get a second opinion or ask a kidney specialist?\nSorry I couldn't be more helpful.