05-29-2010, 08:30 PM
Actually, it is a tradition today in parts of the world to drink urine in order to promote health, and there were many cultures in the past that followed this practice. Drinking small amounts of urine is completely harmless and is definitely safer in a survival situation than drinking water of questionable quality. The biggest problem with it becomes the ingestion of dissolved salts that your body was trying to eliminate, which can eventually lead to the same problems that shipwreck victims contract when drinking seawater.