Aswad
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ORIGINAL: sailorthor Urine is not necessarily sterile. Certainly not if you are bleeding in your kidneys or urethra. And you don't have to see the blood for it or it's related products to be present. No, but the risk is proportional to the amount of blood. A health official (M.D.) noted that the HIV virus concentration, for instance, is too low for infection to occur until the blood content is visible as a pink tint. Note also that blood is a very different medium from urine, and most things that will survive in blood will not do so for any extended period of time in a mix of blood and urine. For instance, our blood will have a very tight pH range, which is not the same range as urine. Also, if you're leaking blood into your urine, you're in big trouble already, quite often. Anyway, getting tons of vitamin C (1-2g or so; more may cause diarrhea) will sometimes help with various urine-borne infections, by changing the pH appreciably. The risk will still be present, though, although it is usually fairly small, from what little I've seen on the topic.
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