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Do I absorb water when swimming?

Whenever I go swimming I end up desperate for a pee, even if I emptied my bladder before I start.

(and before you ask, yes I do get out of the pool before I go)

It makes me wonder if I absorb swimming pool water through my skin.


Panic Button  Mon 15/09/08 09:13
Ethel
Mon 15/09/08
09:15
Through your skin straight into your bladder?

No
wizard66
Mon 15/09/08
12:52
Interesting question though, just how pourous is the skin?
Nicotine patches (for example) work by been absorbed through the skin so how come we dont absorb soap or deoderant?
joggerjayne
Mon 15/09/08
12:57
Your skin absorbs water, which is why it goes all wrinkly.

But the water from a pool isn't pure water, and it will probably absorb some of your skin's own moisture, then you get out and it evaporates as your skin dries, leaving your skin with less of its original moisture than before you started.

So you end up with dry skin.

Can't help with the needing a wee thing.

jno
Mon 15/09/08
13:10
there are old jokes about people needing a wee when they see or even think of Niagara Falls. Something about being in or near water seems to set people off, I don't actually know why. I sometimes get it, though not often and not to the stage of 'desperate'. So I doubt you're alone in this, but I don't know what makes it happen.

Not absorption, so you won't be weeing chlorine.
Gromit
Mon 15/09/08
13:20
When you are walking or out of water generally, you are perspiring (losing water) all the time. However, if you go in a pool and the water temperature surrounding you body is cooler than your body, then your body doesn't need to produce sweat, so your body is retaining more fluid than normal.

If you swim more energetically your body will get hot and you will sweat, lessening the need for a pee.
shangarrett
Mon 15/09/08
20:00
um no its cuz u switch from hot 2 cold soo fast....like u my notice that if its winter and its hot in ur house and then u go ount in the cold u have 2 go pee its totaly normal
Panic Button
Tue 16/09/08
09:14

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