{"id":2479,"date":"2020-09-24T16:42:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T16:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultimatesurvivalspace.com\/?p=501"},"modified":"2022-03-25T10:12:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T10:12:37","slug":"sweat-blood-and-tears-what-can-you-drink-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftofmanhood.com\/sweat-blood-and-tears-what-can-you-drink-to-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweat, Blood and Tears: What Can You Drink to Survive?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Most people who are into sports, outdoors, or who are interested in survival skills in the wilderness are keenly aware of the crucial need for water. The need is intensified if you ever find yourself to be in a survival predicament, and you don’t have a water supply. Have you ever considered what your options or alternatives would be to get a sip of life-sustaining liquid?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the questions that we get in this topic are whether sweat, blood, or tears would make for a suitable alternative in a desperate situation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweat is safe to drink but impractical to collect and is, therefore, not a viable option! Tears would be safe to drink, but the inability to produce and collect sufficient quantities makes it a non-viable option. Drinking blood is not a viable source for hydration or energy for survival. In large quantities, it is toxic and should be avoided.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking a look at each of these alternatives, we will quickly learn what is potentially possible and want is not as well as the practicalities around each alternative. We will also mention some other potential places to find that ever-elusive mouthful of hydration!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can You Drink Sweat To Survive?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sweat is the body’s mechanism to cool your skin and thereby regulate your body temperature in hot environments. We all know that sweat is liquid, but what is it actually composed of, and would it be possible to drink it in dire circumstances?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweat is composed of mostly water; in fact, 99 percent of it is water. The other 1 percent consists of a combination of salt, protein, and urea.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The salt component<\/strong> is there due to the way your body produces sweat. Salt is a known desiccant, which means it absorbs water. In order to produce sweat, your body draws salt into the sweat glands from the blood. Water is attracted to the salt, and when sufficient water is present in the sweat gland, it is expelled to the surface of the skin via the pores in your skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proteins<\/strong> are tiny trace amounts of a large number of different proteins that act to protect the skin from harmful bacteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urea is a waste product<\/strong> of the process in our bodies and is excreted as waste in various ways, but mostly via urine and our sweat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering that sweat is mostly water, it would make a suitable hydration liquid, but there are a couple of problems for this option, particularly if you are in a survival circumstance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Problem With Sweat<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Using sweat as a survival drink comes with some hurdles that would make it impractical as a source of alternative hydration.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n