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Am doctor, you are essentially asking about a fistula (abnormal communication) that would allow urine and bowel to mix. This would allow for communication of gut bacteria to then invade the urinary system which would then easily cause a kidney infection which would then seed the blood resulting in bacteremia. Bacteremia is bad, like you die from infection unless you are on IV antibiotics and get the source under control bad. As an example, colovesicular fistula is a communication between the colon and bladder which often results in bad infections and needs to be surgically repaired. Hope this helps.

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Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Ok but why cant I have a secondary urethra grafted in that runs in my leg down to a nice discreet exit on my ankle so I can take a sneaky wee when Im out and about.

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- finthechat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You could just tape a garden hose to your dick and run it down a pant leg. Man, I should patent this idea....
  
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  - roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That's called a condom catheter. Don't hook it up to suction.
    
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  - Resistentialism@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I can’t. Hose widths are too big.
    
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- Thurkeau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Then you’d be right back where you started for my purposes, still losing moisture unnecessarily.
  
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  - Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I dont care about your purposes, I work in the sun day in, day out. I drink several litres of water and have to go into a hotbox of a portaloo to take a piss. Its like a shit and blue liquid scented sauna and I hate it.
    
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    mrbubblesort@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That seems more like a workplace problem than a biological one
    
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    Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Man have i got the solution for you. We call it dehydration.
    
    So the trick is don’t drink water get hot as fuck maybe pee once or twice all day.
    
    And as a bonus knock off beers get you hammered
    
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  - Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You're not using moisture unnecessarily. It serves to flush out your system and get rid of waste products.
    
    You might as well wash a car with a dry sponge.
    
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
No he’s asking what if humans had cloacas

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Thurkeau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I can totally see that, though what if the body was able to adapt to the new configuration and keep the gut bacteria in its place, but the urine still flowed into the bowels for reprocessing? What else would the large intestines pick up aside from water and maybe salt?

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- Rin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  There’s not much in urine except water, maybe a little bit of sugar if you’re diabetic. I don’t think this would be a beneficial adaptation. I’m pretty sure that if this was advantageous, it would have been adapted way earlier in our evolution.
  
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  - Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Also girls should pee after sex to flush out the pipes. I can imagine that the works might get clogged up if dudes didnt pee out of the same tube they ejaculate out of.
    
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    Shou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Not a problem for men to worry about. It is however true for rats. They can get penis plugs because their sperm acts like glue.
    
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