Let's Talk About Periods
Menstruation, Periods, Date, Chams:
Girls mensturate, it’s normal and that’s how reproduction happens. Get other details about the whole process from wikipedia. Lets just talk about which part of this natural process makes human beings shy and sarcastic. Is it the shape of sanitary napkins? or the constant bleeding? or just that we are not aware? or not ready to talk about what really happens “Down there” ? I mean the vagina. So, let's talk about periods and end this stigma.
Normalizing Periods:
Girls Thing:
Stereotypes in houses:
Use Pads instead of Clothes:
We have an old practice of using clothes as sanitary napkins. Especially, the women from our previous generation are unacquainted or maybe they are not used to buying sanitary pads from the drugstore. But using old, unclean clothes as an alternative of pads can cause various infections such as urinary infections, urinary tract infection, fungal infections, rashes, yeast infection etc.
Clean Hands before and after:
Change Pads Every 5 Hours:
Changing your napkins every 5-6 hours is a good menstrual hygiene practice. The practice prevents any kind of bad smell or odor, accidental leak and itchy rashes
Use Clean Underwear:
This practice is not only for those days it’s an unnegotiable practice to maintain a good hygiene.. Not changing underwear everyday is bad hygiene and leads you to diseases like microbes, and other bacteria to assemble and fester. It causes bad odor and itchy skin, rashes etc.Do not use Soap and Shampoo while you are on period
Take Bath everyday:
Feel Comfortable:
In Emergency, use Clean Clothes, Tampons or Menstrual Cups
This point is not for spreading awareness. It’s more like a hack. I am pretty sure that many of us have faced this trouble in life at least once. Running out of pads. Instead of pads, we can carry tampons or maybe menstrual cups. But if you still don’t have that then feel free to use a clean cloth as an alternative to sanitary napkins.
Here are some alternatives you can choose like Bio-degradable Sanitary pads or menstrual cups or tampon.
Fact file:
Authors - Ishwarya S & Jaita Choudhary
1 Comments
After checking out this article I build a huge respect on girls. The whole ideology must be addressed among the people who are checking out periods as girls thing. Thank you LifeNatPhil for making us aware about the important things.
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