What Happens If You Don’t Leave the Bathtub for a Week?

After a long day, isn't it nice to hop into

a warm, relaxing bath?

You can soak up some suds and

spend an hour or so in there.

Now, what about spending 167 hours more?

While resting in the water,

your hands and feet start to become wrinkly,

compared to the rest of your body.

We used to think that the skin in hands and feet

absorbed water, and that's what made them wrinkle.

But research has shown that vasoconstriction,

a narrowing of the blood vessels

in our fingers and toes,

is the real cause.

It takes about five minutes

for skin to start wrinkling,

but how much more intense
would those wrinkles become

if you stayed in the water for a week?

Could they become dangerous?

Before we get to those scary scenarios,

you can rest easy for a bit.

Enjoy yourself!

After all, this is a bath,

and that's kind of the point.

For the first couple of hours, you can

bring your rubber ducky and

play in this nice warm water.

Yeah you'll notice wrinkles starting to form,

but there's nothing to worry about

yet

Although they might look a little strange and

gross, they actually might be helpful.

According to a handful of studies from 2011 to 2013,

these wrinkles might

actually be giving us a better grip in the water.

So if you happen to lose your soap in the bathtub,

the wrinkles might be able to help you.

Okay now, it's coming up on

24 hours out of your 168-hour experience,

and you're getting a little bored.

Your rubber ducky has deflated,

your laptop's dead, and

you're starting to feel some pain.

You'll start to notice

bubbles forming on your skin.

These are known as vesicles.

In this case, they're caused by the water in the tub

getting trapped between your outer

and middle layers of skin.

These bubbles will continue to form

the longer you're in the bath,

creating bubble filled skin, all along your body.

And as that happens, you're starting to get hungry.

Well it's unlikely you'll have

access to servants while you're in this bath,

so your best bet for getting fed

would be with a tube

filled with all the nutrients you'd need.

But then, you know what comes next.

You'd inevitably have to go to the washroom.

You'd either have to do it in the bathtub,

which would cause a number of disgusting
consequences no one wants to know about,

or you could have a tube that disposes of all this.

So yeah let's go with that.

But as you've been thinking of all these

crazy ways to cope with your bodily functions,

you've been ignoring those

bubbles forming on your skin.

As time has gone on,

they've been slowly festering and growing bigger.

This will keep happening

until a couple of days into your bath marathon, when

they begin to burst.

Okay so, now your skin is starting to peel away.

And if you haven't been disposing of your waste,

you'll be in a pool full of fecal matter

with open sores all over your body.

Yes, this is the perfect way for you
to get infections all over your skin.

Glad you asked.

Now if this isn't enough to worry about,

a couple of days into your bath, you'll start developing

bath sores.

These are similar to bedsores,

which happen when you lay in bed for far too long.

Since there's not much space
to move around in your bath,

it could also tear your new skin bubbles,

creating even more sores.

As you're stuck in this bath,

most likely in incredible pain,

you'll realize that these sores

have been distracting you from
something else that's happening.

The water has been getting colder the whole time.

If you haven't been adding in any more hot water,

and you don't have any way to sustain the temperature,

your bath could get dangerously cold.

If your bath temperature gets down between

21 to 26°C (70 to 80°F), then

spending just a couple of hours
in the tub could make you pass out.

Luckily it can't kill you, as the

temperatures just aren't low enough.

But if it goes any lower,

you could end up dead.

Sounds like unless you're heavily monitored

with proper nutrition, consistent fresh water,

and some way to go to the bathroom,

this will end very badly.

I got to admit, this is a pretty awful way

to spend a week.

I mean who planned this?

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If we were using their website,

maybe we'd be able to

coordinate the building of a spaceship rather than

suffering in a bathtub for a week.

What I'm trying to get at is,

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Now even if you did manage to
survive the stress of all this,

you'd come out a very different person.

I mean with your skin ripped all along your body

and most likely infected,

it's unlikely you'd survive

what would come shortly after
you did get out of the bath.

Something you'd have a better chance of surviving

is if you fell into a pool of spent nuclear fuel rods.

Ya, really.

But we'll leave that story, for another WHAT IF.