BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.

Subject: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 12:06 AM

Just passing on a little useful information here, based on direct personal experience. I can't remember who told me about this, but it was maybe 10 years back, and someone did. They told me that you can cure and prevent athlete's foot by the simply remedy of peeing on your feet in the shower once every day...then simply turn on the water, wash it all down the drain, and shower as usual.

Well, I tried it. So did my father, who had had trouble with athlete's foot infections for much of his life. They are an affliction that comes with wearing tight footwear that doesn't breathe properly, as I think we all know.

Long story short - it works! The urine kills those nasty little fungus bastards deader than a doornail. I'll swear to it. I don't know what it is exactly in the urine that does the trick, but I guess it's quite acidic for one thing. Anyway, the little fungoids curl up and die when it hits them...judging by the very good results. They depart.

This is the simplest thing in the world to do, it's free, you don't have to pay the pharmacy for it, and I think it works better than the stuff at the pharmacy anyhow, having tried both.

So, how about that?

Madonna was once on an interview on David Letterman and she happened to mention this thing about urine curing/preventing athlete's foot....of course Letterman just made a couple of silly jokes and the audience went "Eeewwww" over how gross it all was...

It ain't easy to teach inhibited old dogs new tricks! ;-)

Trust me. It works. Try it and see. And remember...it will cost you absolutely nothing.

Besides, who hasn't peed in the shower anyway at some time in the past? Hmmm? Do I see any raised hands? No? Well, put that practice to good use if you get an athlete's foot infection.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 12:38 AM

Another lesson — it never does to underrate Miss Ciccioni. I know she isn't everybody's cup of tea: but, whatever it is, Madonna knows where it's at.

Hanky-panky...

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 01:18 AM

There is, in fact, an international movement actively promoting the environmental benefit of peeing in the shower. (Assuming that you're going to take a shower anyway) the savings in water resources from not separately flushing a potty are calculated in the billions of gallons annually if only a small part of the population assumes this worthy practice on a regular basis.

There has, however, been little comment on whether this practice is fully compatible with the advice of that other group advocating the "Save Water - Shower With A Friend" ideal.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 01:19 AM

Well, I just bought a 7-ounce tube of 40% Urea cream for Grandma - $86.50. The podiatrist prescribed it, but Medicare wouldn't pay. Then I found out you can get it non-prescription for $15 for a 2-ounce tube, which is all she needed. Why didn't the pharmacist tell us that?
And now, Little Hawk says all she has to do is pee on her feet??

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 02:07 AM

No wonder I don't have athlete's foot. I have been peeing in the shower for years.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 02:30 AM

>>>>>>>>They are an affliction that comes with wearing tight footwear that doesn't breathe properly, as I think we all know.<<<<<<<<< actually LH it is a fungal infection, usually picked up at swimming baths/saunas etc where people walk barefoot. Nice to know that peeing on ones feet is good though.. thanks! Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 02:40 AM

There used to be a remedy for vaginal thrush - a uric acid gel called AciJel - which worked very well. Seems to have gone off the market, unfortunately.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 02:44 AM

Besides, who hasn't peed in the shower anyway at some time in the past? Hmmm? Do I see any raised hands? No?

Well, there's me for a start. Peeing in the shower? What a strange idea. It doesn't take much forethought to go before you get in the shower.

That having been said, I do suffer with athlete's foot so I mught give it a try.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Genie
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 03:42 AM

Why should anyone waste good water by flushing the toilet when they can pee in the shower?
Does anyone think the gunk that comes off yer bod when ya shower is any more asceptic than piss, anyway?

Nice to know the stuff kills fungus too!

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Tangledwood
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 03:48 AM

actually LH it is a fungal infection, usually picked up at swimming baths/saunas etc where people walk barefoot. Nice to know that peeing on ones feet is good though.. thanks! Best wishes, Mike.

So peeing in the swimming pool isn't a bad thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 04:15 AM

LH and Georgiansilver - Athlete's foot is a fungal infection - TRUE. It is also true that best conditions for it to take hold and thrive are when enclosed in warm damp sweaty footwear. Much less likely if feet do not sweat.
Transfer is very likely between people with sweaty enclosed feet - sporting types and changing room floors - athletes feet.
Antiperspirants and powders which absorb moisture can help limit transfer.
Once the initial damage to skin surface has happened, other usually harmless bacteria normally present on the skin surface get into the cracked skin and do further damage.

Urine is well known for use in medicine. Used in the past to sterilise surgical tools.
Urea is often the active ingredient for skin preparations - softening hard, cracked skin or ingrown toenails.

Quack!
GtD. (Damp feet, but no athlete).

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: gnu
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 05:17 AM

It was well known at the gym when I went to uni. Another one - that yellowish fungus that gets in under toenails... Noxema works a charm.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Will Fly
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 05:17 AM

Old sweats (ho ho) in the armed forces have known since time immemorial that peeing on your feet helps to prevent cracking and soreness from marching and being in boots all day long.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Will Fly
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 05:40 AM

And, by the way, a bricklayer friend of mine hardened up his hands with the same technique when starting out in the trade...

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 06:15 AM

A friend of mine who grew up in rural Ireland in the early 20th century said pee was a well-known cure for a lot of things in those days. The nearest village was a fair distance away and they had no car, so it often came in handy around the farm as a disinfectant.

When you hear those lovely Scottish waulking songs, you can brighten up your day by remembering that the cloth was waulked in urine.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 06:18 AM

So the funguses get pissed off?

OK, I was just leaving...

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: The Sandman
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 06:32 AM

very interesting,could it be the anmmonia in urine,apparantly urineloses its ammonia content if it is left standing for a week.could someone else experiment and see if urine left for a week is as effective,as fresh urine, for eradicating athletes foot.
I am not taking the piss

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 06:59 AM

Letterman was too busy shitting on his own doorstep, to piss on his feet.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: GUEST,MD
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 07:12 AM

Does it only cure Athlete's Foot if it is your own urine.

My wife suffers from this complaint but may have difficulty with her aim. I suppose I will have to get in the shower with her and point Percy at her feet.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: GUEST,Kendall
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 07:18 AM

I never go barefoot, or pee in the shower, or have athlete's foot. Do really old people have that fungus problem? Yes, that's exactly what I'm implying.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 08:24 AM

Geeziz Kendall...No wonder you don't pee in the shower. You have fuel line freeze up......You live in Maine ferchrissakes! Even Athlete's Foot Fungus has better sense than to live there! Plus, what idiot would go barefoot in a place where a warm summer day means it got up to 35?

I also have this mental movie sequence where Joebro is pissing on his Granny's feet while explaining the cost savings...............


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 08:51 AM

As they say in Old Mexico this time of year

PEACE ON EARTH

But take your shoes and socks off first!

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 08:55 AM

And mind the electric fences

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 08:59 AM

Thank you John Mac.. and Peace be on you too brother!!! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 09:00 AM

Urine may kill athlete's foot fungus, but it doesn't kill ants. You can pee on an ant mound five times a day for weeks and all it'll do is make 'em rebuild it higher each time. Guess that's why they call 'em "pissants", huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: olddude
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 09:03 AM

Ok how about crotch rot, (jock itch) how does one aim to hit the nads? I am thinking a bounce off the ceiling or ricochet shot off the door LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: olddude
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 09:10 AM

One other problem, if yer tool is small ya hit the mark every time but if it is big, ya would need to figure out how to bend it like a gumby to hit yer feet ...

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 09:16 AM

Or get a friend to help....

Normal urine is pretty much free of germs and a good antiseptic -- it's been used for a long, long time as a battlefield wound-wash. When Sir Lostalot had his head bashed in by Sir Furball in the jousts the squires came out and peed on the wound; it got the dirt out and helped kill the nasties that could cause infection.

Mind you, it could be a bit embarrassing if the urine WASN'T "normal". Perhaps your good buddy had the clap and he contributed his bit to the stump of your leg....

Still, sometimes it's better to be pissed on than pissed off.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 09:34 AM

No problem Dan........Just try pissing up a slack rope!

BTW, urine is one of those time honored home healing things for cuts and such. IF you read The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad cuts himself while changing the bearings in a car. He pisses on dirt and makes a mudpack to stop the bleeding and "kill the germs"...........


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 10:04 AM

I'm always peeing on my hands by accident and I've never once had athlete's foot on 'em. That proves it's true as far as I'm concerned.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: olddude
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 11:45 AM

Hey Spaw
what was Tom Toad bearing when he cut himself?

LOL, ok Jacqui already kicked us out of the cellar, I think we will end up in the car at this rate LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 12:00 PM

A ball bearing ?

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 12:09 PM

Round or tapered?

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 12:22 PM

Hey Olddude.. if it's a crotch prob... surely lying on your back and pointing upwards would solve the problem eh???

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 12:57 PM

We had a drunk do that on the library lawn one time. He told the cops he was a fountain; the cops told him he was under arrest for several things.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 02:35 PM

Hmm. Lots of response here. ;-) That's nice.

Someone mentioned that you usually contract athlete's foot in gyms and saunas? Not in my experience. I haven't been in a gym or a sauna in years, but have gotten a mild case of athlete's foot now and then on a reasonably frequent basis, so I think it's just ordinary footwear that does it. Anyway, it's easily halted by the old urine treatment.

If you don't shower (meaning you take baths instead) you can just pee in a bucket or some similar container, stick your toes in it for 30 seconds, then pour it down the drain and wash the bucket out.

Urine seems to be an excellent disinfectant, but I think it needs to be fresh for best effect. It gets pretty cruddy if it's left standing around for a day or so...

I don't think it would make a darned bit of difference if you used someone else's urine or your own...but using your own is a lot more convenient and practical, wouldn't you think? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 02:37 PM

Everytime I see this thread on the list I read it as "Ukraine Kills Athelete's Foot Fungus"
Pointless, but just thought I'd share it.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 02:40 PM

Every nation needs its moment of triumph, Crow Sister. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 03:13 PM

It's really neat
To pee on your feet
It kills Athlete's Foot Fungus dead,
So you don't have to worry
When driving your lorry
You'll really have nothing to dread.

So for a real treat
Pee on your feet!
Your neighbors and friends can help too.
Don't be a dupe,
Stand around in a group!
It gives everyone something to do.

          --The Noble Rapaire, Piss On You!
             Orilla, Ontario: Pants Press, 1927.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 03:18 PM

needs to be added to the misread threads thread

Speaking as one who used to clean houses for a living I say this is a horrible practice. It causes yellowish brown stains that are nearly impossible to remove from fiberglass tubs.

But this practice is not as nasty as hocking loogies all over the shower walls. What the therapeutic reason for that was, I will never know.

I refused to clean the bathroom when I walked into that one.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 03:24 PM

"hocking loogies all over the shower walls."

Yeagh!!

Only boys do shit like that - my Grandad used to complain of 'gobs of snot' congealed in the bathroom sink, made by one of his (then teenage) sons..

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 03:40 PM

Folks go on for hours,
About golden showers
And how such behaviour is neat
I think we should ask Spaw
[Only he has the chutzpah]
To design us a foot-spa
That runs on your own urine
And by doing so assurin'
Hawks feet they are free of fungi

Taking the piss! MOI?

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 03:43 PM

"pedal prophylaxis for poor peons"

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 03:47 PM

Not my house, old dude. I have made a complete and alphabetized list of all shower peeers posting to this thread. Your invitations are revoked.
Although shower peeing beats what Alice does anyday.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 03:50 PM

What ever happened to the Golden Shower Award with the Little Pissant? Time to resurrect him?

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: olddude
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 03:57 PM

I visited Ireland a few years back (miss it so) anyway in a tour of one of the castles they said that the lord of the castle and all the important people would hang their clothes on the wall next to the urinal. The ammonia from the urine would disinfect and would keep fleas and ticks away ... I bet it worked, I have visited outhouses while camping where it would burn your nose the ammonia smell.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 04:44 PM

I think I would prefer the fleas.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 04:50 PM

gawd georg...like I want to imagine some Canadian guy peeing on his feet in the shower....like I said Canadian taste...oxymoron

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 04:52 PM

Old stale urine ("chamber lye") was used for everything from washing your long silken locks to making better saltpetre for gunpowder. Very useful stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine kills athlete's foot fungus.
From: Ed T
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 04:54 PM

Problem with peeing in the shower is it produces Pfog. This smelly vapour can move about and linnger a bit. Make sure you do not have visitors in shortly after you try it....at home....that is.