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Pee is one of the first body fluids a kid learns about. You probably learned about pee (also called urine) when you were 2 or so, when you started using the toilet instead of diapers. Now that you are older, you can understand much more about the amazing yellow stuff called pee.

Parts of the urinary tract
You drink, you pee. But urine is more than just a drink you had a few hours ago. The body produces pee as a way to get rid of waste and extra water that it does not need. Before leaving your body, urine travels through the urinary tract.
The urinary tract is a pathway that includes the:
*kidneys: two bean-shaped organs that filter waste from the blood and produce urine
*ureters: two thin tubes that take pee from the kidneys to the bladder
*bladder: a sac that holds pee until it is time to go to the bathroom
*urethra: the tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body when you pee
The kidneys are key players in the urinary tract. They do two important jobs- filter waste from the blood and produce pee to get rid of it. If they didn't do this, toxins (bad stuff) would quickly build up in your body and make you sick. That is why you hear about people getting kidney transplants sometimes. You need at least one working kidney to be healthy.
You might wonder how your body ends up with waste it needs to get rid of. Body processes such as digestion and metabolism (when the body turns food intro energy) produces wastes, or byproducts. The body takes what it needs,, but the waste has to go somewhere. Thanks to the kidneys and pee, it has a way to get out.

What is pee made of?
When blood goes through the kidneys, water and some of the other stuff that is in blood (like protien, glucose,, and other nutrients) go back into the bloodstream, while the excess stuff and waste is taken out. Urine is whats left behind. But what is it exactly?
Urine contains:
*water
*urea, a waste product that forms when protiens are broken down
*urochrome, a pigmented blood product that gives pee it's yellowish color
*salts
*creatinine, a waste product that forms with the normal breakdown of muscle
*byproducts of bile from the liver
*ammonia

You've got to go!
Once pee is produced, it travels from the kidney to the bladder, where it's stored until you need to go to the bathroom. The bladder expands as it fills; when it's full, nerve endings in the bladder wall send a message to the brain that you need to pee.
When you're in the bathroom, ready to go, the bladder walls contract and the sphincter (a ringlike muscle that guards the exit fro the bladder to the urethra) relaxes. The urine then flows from the bladder and out of the body through the urethra. For boys, the urethra ends at the tip of the penis. For girls, it's above the vaginal opening.

Urinary tract health
1. Drink enough fluids. There's no magic amount, but be sure to drink plenty of water , especially when it's warm out or you're exercising and playing.
2. For girls, Wipe from front to back after going poop. Because of where the urethra is for girls, it's easy for poop bacteria to get in that area. If some of those bacteria get in the urinary tract, you could get an infection known as a UTI (urinary tract infection).
3. For everyone: Go to the bathroom when you need to go. Holding too long isn't good for your urinary tract- and it could lead to accidents. Uh-Oh!

Here are the funn facts now that you have had your health lesson!
#1: For centuries, humans just went anywhere. There weren't that many people around to see you go! Later, Man learned to go behind a rock or tree until he learned how to dig a hole for the elimination of both kinds of human waste. Holes were important for many more centuries until the rise of the Roman Empire and their advances in plumbing. The first urinal was said to have been invented by an obscure Roman named Ureacles.
It is rumored that Ureacles was spotted one day taking a pee in one of the recently invented Aqueducts, was immediately brought before Augustus Caesar, and met with an unknown and untimely end. There are indications that he may have been involved in some way with Roman Physicians' first attempts at performing a SEX CHANGE OPERATION!

Is there anything useful you can do with pee?
Actually NO! Some people derive some strange pleasure by using pee in their sexual relationships, this is calle a fetish, and it will not be discussed here as it is TOTALLY ICKY and I just don't go there!
There are some Very Strange people who insist that drinking your own pee has various health benefits. I think this practice shows it does not benefit Mental Health and I wouldn't even want to talk to these people, much less shake hands with them! The only good use I can think of for pee, is REVENGE! This can come in many shapes and forms, our language is full of refrences and phrases that will be discussed later in this blog.

Refrences and Phrases pertaining to Pee
1. I'm going to pee on your grave
2. Who peed in the pool?
3. Who peed in your cornflakes?
And the best for last.....
4. PISS ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!