Timeline for It's freezing, you're cold and have to pee. Should you hold it as long as possible to conserve heat energy?
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| Mar 1, 2022 at 10:19 | history | edited | Toby Speight | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2022 at 19:05 | comment | added | cbeleites | Slightly off topic: if you find yourself outdoors thinking that peeing is trouble warmth-wise, I'd take this as an important warning sign that hypothermia is lurking around the corner. Not because of the short exposure while peeing, but because you are exhausted and not sufficiently well fed. (Similarly to when you dislike the idea of drinking because the water in your bottle has ice floating in it.) Obviously, in extreme weather, pee in a sheltered place, don't stick your bum needlessly right into a blizzard. | |
| Feb 16, 2022 at 16:10 | answer | added | 3D Coder | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 7, 2022 at 10:30 | answer | added | Toby Speight | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 7, 2022 at 10:29 | vote | accept | jirislav | ||
| Feb 6, 2022 at 9:32 | answer | added | Michael | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 4, 2022 at 15:34 | answer | added | crasic | timeline score: 11 | |
| Feb 4, 2022 at 14:51 | comment | added | Chris H | BTW this is probably due to peripheral vasoconstriction which reduces blood volume, and that water has to go somewhere | |
| Feb 4, 2022 at 14:48 | comment | added | Chris H | Another factor is how much clothing you have to remove/how much skin you have to expose. This obviously isn't the same for everyone but also depends on what you're wearing. Physics (my field) says keep the heat in, but the little physiology I know mainly seems to tell me that the body has sneaky ways to defeat crude physics-based assumptions. | |
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| S Feb 4, 2022 at 13:24 | history | asked | jirislav | CC BY-SA 4.0 |