For some it's not a problem, others shudder at the thought of showering and peeing at the same time.
Sure, that saves you having to go all the way to the bowl (which is usually right next to the shower anyway) and it also saves you having to flush the toilet - which in purely mathematical terms can actually amount to up to 2,200 liters of water per year. But the problem lies somewhere else: with conditioning!

Save water when showering

It is this urge to absolutely check the veracity of a sharepic when the claims sound so ridiculous that drove us to take a closer look at the origin:

SWR television wrote on a sharepic on Facebook : “ Peeing in the shower once a day saves around 2,200 liters of water a year .

Purely mathematically correct – but not really correct

The SWR cites the website IFLScience as the source, which actually calculated HERE

Flushing a modern Western toilet uses an average of 6 liters of water, and an average adult pees about seven times every 24 hours. This means that 42 liters of toilet water are needed to be flushed every day.

So if you shower every day and urinate once out of the seven times you pee, that's 2,190 liters of water saved per year.

Now, of course, this calculation is a little laggy because not everyone showers every day. In addition, many people are not at home all day, but instead go to the toilet at their workplace. When just peeing (i.e. without the “big deal”), a maximum of 3 liters of water , not the 6 liters on which the calculation is based.

The saving of 2,190 liters would only affect people who

  1. are at home all day
  2. shower every day and
  3. Flush a full 6 liters every time, even for “small business”

So not exactly a majority.

But why it's still not a good idea

It has long been the unanimous opinion among experts that peeing while showering has a rather undesirable side effect, but it was only thanks to several TikTok videos by Dr. Alicia Jeffrey-Thomas, a pelvic floor therapist, popularized this opinion:

@dr.teresa.irwin I said what I said! Unless you're struggling with total bladder emptying you need to hear this #bladdertips #pft #obgyn ♬ Pieces (Solo Piano Version) – Danilo Stankovic

“When you pee in the shower or turn on the faucet or turn on the shower and then sit on the toilet to pee while the water is running, you create an association in your brain between the sound of running water and the need to pee.

We combine that with pelvic floor dysfunction – either now or later – and that can lead to problems with bladder leakage if you hear water running outside the shower.”

There is another problem for women, says Dr. Jeffrey Thomas:

“Unfortunately, those of us who were born female and have this anatomy are not designed to pee standing up. Even in that Captain Morgan pose [one leg up], the pelvic floor doesn't relax properly, which means the bladder doesn't empty very well."

When a user asked why flushing the toilet doesn't trigger the urge to urinate, she replied:

“When the toilet flushes, you've already peed, so that association doesn't occur.
The intensity of a bladder trigger varies from person to person, but if you literally can't stop yourself from peeing in the shower, that's not a good sign."

And how do you pee like that?

In a naturally non-representative survey on Twitter and Facebook, I wanted to know what it is like for you: Do you pee when you shower or do you find it disgusting?

Here are the Twitter results:

Out of 141 votes, 59.6 percent voted yes and 40.4 percent voted no.

And here are the Facebook results:

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The Shower and Pee Survey, Source: Facebook

With (as of this writing) 661 votes, 62 percent voted yes, 37 percent voted no.

So around 60 percent of you pee in the shower, but the comments are dominated by those who don't like it at all - apparently a taboo topic that most shower peeers don't necessarily want to admit to publicly.

Conclusion

So whether you pee in the shower or not is up to you - but it's not really recommended purely to save water, especially since you could condition yourself incorrectly and then have to pee every time you hear water running!

Article image: Pixabay

Also interesting:

Many people can smell it just by seeing the picture of a swimming pool: the typical smell of chlorine.
Who peed? – If there is a strong smell of chlorine in the swimming pool


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