I think it's the fact the water you're marinating in isn't clean, and can get into places you'd just rinse over in the shower. A hot shower should help. Not as well as a soaky bath, but still good.
I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the twelfth century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophesy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.
Giles ,'Selfless'
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Beverly - Jan 27, 2011 3:25:59 pm PST #14126 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Laga - Jan 27, 2011 3:29:58 pm PST #14127 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Would it be OK to take a bath and then rinse off in the shower before getting out?
beekaytee - Jan 27, 2011 3:30:15 pm PST #14128 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Sigh. You are right. I know you are right. t /Carrie Fisher
Hot shower it is, then the heating pad and that novel I started last night.
That's the ticket.
Jessica - Jan 27, 2011 3:35:27 pm PST #14129 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
FWIW, I've never had a doctor warn me against taking baths with a UTI.
[eta: bath salts and bubble baths should definitely be avoided, but only because they can cause additional pain/burning, they won't make the acutal infection any worse]
Connie Neil - Jan 27, 2011 3:37:35 pm PST #14130 of 30000
brillig
I remember, back there in the Dark Ages, that you weren't supposed to take a bath when you had your period.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 27, 2011 3:54:32 pm PST #14131 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Condo drama today has been low. Got a call from the property manager, which was good. Most drama occurred from coming clean with Tom on the whole thing. I've been bringing him up to speed slowly this week, but now also I had to go into why I didn't tell him in the first place. Which... AWKward!
I did enjoy not having to deal with tenants or neighbors.
Steph L. - Jan 27, 2011 4:02:56 pm PST #14132 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
FWIW, I've never had a doctor warn me against taking baths with a UTI.
I never took a bubble bath until I was in college, because my mom firmly believed that they give you UTIs. She might still believe that, come to think of it.
DebetEsse - Jan 27, 2011 4:07:46 pm PST #14133 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
For certain values of "you", your mother was not entirely incorrect.
Jessica - Jan 27, 2011 4:11:20 pm PST #14134 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
But isn't the problem in that equation the bubbles, and not the bath? My understanding is that the chemicals that make bubble baths bubbly are potential irritants, but that sitting in warm water is not in and of itself a problem.
Steph L. - Jan 27, 2011 4:15:35 pm PST #14135 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
But isn't the problem in that equation the bubbles, and not the bath? My understanding is that the chemicals that make bubble baths bubbly are potential irritants, but that sitting in warm water is not in and of itself a problem.
We took baths (vs. showers, I mean); just not the bubble variety.
But -- if the chemicals cause irritation, that doesn't necessarily mean UTI, though I do understand that an irritated area can be more prone to any bacteria that wander by. And -- though I am only an ancedatal sample of one -- I've taken a lot of bubble baths since college, and never gotten a UTI from them.
Anyway, I'm glad for my mom's sake that she was partially right, since she tends to be full of "wisdom" that is not exactly accurate.