Using urine to rinse menstrual cup. Mercury in urine.

[carmensandra.livejournal.com]

I have heard that some people use urine to rinse off their cups when they don't have anything else. 
Do you? Why or why not?

If you have amalgam( siliver/mercury) fillings, you might be peeing away the mercury that you swallow. I guess you would also be peeing away some of the mercury in the foods you eat. So it just doesn't seem safe to me to use urine.

Any thoughts?

Comments

[vronwe.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that you don't pee out mercury. It's fat soluble, so it gets stored in your muscles.

[atalanta0jess.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not aware that mercury comes out in your urine - mercury tends to bioaccumulate, because it is lipophilic, so it would be more likely to be stored in your fats. It might be present to some degree in your urine, but it wouldn't be concentrated there, as far as I know. And honestly, if its safe enough to have those fillings or put those foods in your MOUTH, I think its safe enough to get some pee in your vag. I mean...your urine touches your vulva area sometimes anyway, so I don't see a difference.

Its widely said to be safe to drink urine - I'm not sure why it would be any less safe to get it in your vagina.

I tend to just wipe off my cup if I have nothing else, but I don't really see any issues with using urine. I don't think that mercury or other contaminants are a real concern here.

[necromance.livejournal.com]

Yea, if the mercury is already in your body the small amount that could be in your urine isn't going to make or break you.

[carmensandra.livejournal.com]

I did get that mixed up. I was reading in a study that mercury is in urine in small amounts(I for some reason thought it was in high amounts), so that must mean mercury fillings don't release much mercury. But really it's not so good if it stays in your body and doesn't come out. The stuff that stays in your body wouldn't show up in a urine test.

I thought maybe I shouldn't be putting it in my vagina because it wouldn't get digested out.

[buzzboomsplat.livejournal.com]

I think that it would be far more likely for a person to be diabetic and not know it, have a high concentration of sugar in their urine and then risk giving themself a yeast infection.

I wonder what proportion of menstrual cup users even have mercury fillings anyway. The only people I know who have those silver coloured fillings are, at the youngest, in their fifties. I'm also pretty sure that if mercury fillings are dangerous, they shouldn't still be in people's mouths.

and to top it all off- burning coal to produce electricity releases a lot of mercury and we still have lead paint in our houses. these are things that i see as more worrying.

[buzzboomsplat.livejournal.com]

ps. and in answer to your question- no, I don't use urine to rinse my cup. I rinse it out with water and a bit of Cetaphil.

[absolved.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* I have mercury fillings! (I'm 32)