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At the beach, if your child says she really has to pee, can she just pee in the ocean?

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Urine: Yes! urine is a sterile fluid. The various waste products that it contains are similiar to those produced by the normal decomopsition of organic matter on land and inthe oceans (oxymetazoline).

Answered 8/16/2013

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