Sen. Joe Lieberman died after falling. The same happened to Richard Simmons . A stupid self inflicted accident resulted in agonizing foot pain, and marked disability. I discovered the urinal. There are male and female ones on shopping sites. They cost $5 for the male, and $10 for the female one. They last a year. The urinal is dishwasher safe. The lid and its stem are not. Remove the lid and stem before placing the urinal in the dishwaher.
People pee 5 times a day. Each flush of the toilet consumes 1.28 gallons, or 6 gallons a day. Urinals will save 5 gallons of toilet water, at 6 cents a gallon, per person, each day. If 300 million people used urinals, the yearly savings would be 550 billion gallons of water, or $33 billion in water bills. Not using the toilet for urination may extend its life by 5 years. In water shortage areas, plastic urinals will preserve water, and decrease the cost of water transmission. Pour the urine out and rinse in the sink. Use a quart of tap water to rinse and clean them.
Read the studies of flushing splash back. Disturbing. The blast radius of the content of the toilet is 63 inches. While urine is sterile, it contains rich nutrients for bacteria, and for bugs to thrive on the walls and on the floors. Splash back of feces, is of course, rough. It lands back on the seat and onto the surrounding walls. Please, try to close the lid before flushing.
One or two of those trips to the toilet can be at night. Much of the population is elderly and has motility/balance problems. If one multiplies the number of emergency room visit for falls by 5, there are over a million serious falls. Urinating at the side of the bed, and not walking to the bathroom, with urgnecy, may prevent night time 300,000 falls, their costs, and their suffering. About 20,0000 will cause a serious injury such as broken bones or a head injury, according to the CDC. 95% of the 300,000 hip fractures are caused by falls. Falls cause the majority of traumatic brain injuries. Going to the bathroom to urinate may be as dangerous as sedative medications causing falls in the elderly. The cost of falls is $50 billion, 75% borne by the taxpayer. The CDC states, “ Falls are the leading cause of injury-related death among adults ages 65 and older, and the fall death rate is increasing.” Unintentional falls kill 45000 people a year. That number is the same as by motor vehicle crashes. Many happen to elderly people walking to the bathroom at night. They increased by over 40% in the past 10 years. The 52 million falls today many grow to 73 million falls in 2030. The savings in water cost may be dwarfed by the savings in health care costs and by the suffering prevented by not walking to the bathroom.
Ladies, the toilet seat can now remain permanently down. Never plunge your booty into the porcelain bowl in the dark again. There will be no more bending to clean the yellow stain around and behind the toilet, that cause a smelly bathroom.
Some of us fear urine, and don’t want to get near it. It is harmless unless infected. Exposure therapy is probably the most efficient treatment for urophobia. As you repeat the collections, your brain will get used to the. Hand sanitizer may reassure the concerned.
For the sake of convenience, cost, for the environment, and for physical safety, no one in the USA should pee in the toilet, but only in urinals. Agencies that house patients and receive Medicare and Medicaid should adapt this rule. People who fear urine should understand it is sterile. If poured out daily, it will remain quite safe to handle. The airtight lid prevents odors. People with urgency will find comfort from not running to the bathroom.
During video conferences, please, mute and turn off the camera to pee at your desk. Showing private parts is a crime of disturbing the peace. Interruption will be 1 minute, instead of 10 minutes. Please, stop driving too fast to the next rest stop when urinary urgency calls. Drive to the side of the road, use the urinal in the car. Apply hand sanitizer for hygiene. For those in private planes, please, do not land at a strange airport just to pee. Carry the urinal with you.
If you need to find a present for someone who has everything, consider 3 urinals at $5 each, for the bedroom, for the office, and for the car. They will change a life, if not the country.
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