Sanitary towels for teens

pigpen

Humphrey10 wrote: »

Yes they're normal bacteria, but they would still do you harm if you got them somewhere on your body where they don't normally live eg in your lungs or eye or something. So yes perfectly safe in a dishwasher, but not sterile. I was just being pedantic really!

I dont think it would TBH.. i might try it.. next period i have in about 100 years time.. I shall, in the name of science, rub menstrual discharge in my eye!

nothing is ever truly sterile.. bacteria live in volcanoes and arctic wastes..

puddy wrote: »

to these people who are outraged at a mooncup going in the dishwasher, do you all throw away dishes and plates that you have prepared raw meat on and which have traces of chicken, beef or pork blood on them?

or do you put them in the dishwasher and just consider it washing up?

My point exactly.

bagginslover wrote: »

Pigpen, I'd happily eat off your dishes I see no problem with it at all.

..... Unless anyof yo are actually personal friends of pigpen, and are likely to eat at her house, leave her alone!

Bother.. I was hoping to get out of cooking lol.. you should be safe though.. Ive not had a period in 2.5 years

I actually find it totally hilarious that people think preparing offal/meat/dead things.. which might have been dead for WEEKS! on a board and declaring it washing up and washing it with everything else is less disgusting or horrifying than washing something which has contained their own blood..

So... if you cut your hand with your favourite sharp knife while chopping.. potatoes... or chicken breast ... would you throw away the knife? Would you wash it separately to the rest of your dishes or would you put it in the dishwasher with everything else?

pigpen

vroombroom wrote: »

who cares about enzymes and bacteria and stuff - ew ew ew ew ew putting a mooncup in with your dishes? Come on now, be serious.

PP, I do sometimes think you exaggerate on things to get a reaction from people - next you'll say you give your kids a bath along with the family pets or something...

I actually dont.. lol.. I think a lot of people put their mooncup in the DW.. most people I know who use one do.. however it isnt realy the first thing you ask when you pop round for coffee is it?

Hi.. how are you?.. where do you wash your mooncup after your period?

And no I dont bath the children with the animals.. there isnt room in the bath.. though.. we did bath a bunny recently and he kicked poopy water into DS3s face.. he promptly screamed and swallowed a small amount of said poopy water..

Humphrey10

I don't use mooncups, nor do I currently have a dishwasher, but we used to wash the dog's food bowl in the dishwasher and that was seriously manky because we only washed it once every few days. I don't see how a mooncup is any worse tbh.

puddy wrote: »

Back to the original topic...

I always used towels with wings (I found that the ones without wings leaked) until I discovered the wonder that is depo-provera now I don't have to worry any more. No more having to take days off work each month, no more throwing up, no more pain, wonderful.

bagginslover

vroombroom wrote: »

who cares about enzymes and bacteria and stuff - ew ew ew ew ew putting a mooncup in with your dishes? Come on now, be serious.

PP, I do sometimes think you exaggerate on things to get a reaction from people - next you'll say you give your kids a bath along with the family pets or something...

If you don't care about the bacteria, enzymes (and I'm guessing by 'stuff' you mean virus's) all that left is a few harmlesscells and some plasma-in short, nothing that can hurt you and nothing that any animal you might eat doesn't have!

puddy

i dont know whats happening to the human race i really dont. we have people who are 'grossed out' (what a ridiculous turn of phrase) about using a tampon and expresses that by using purile terminology

we have people who are virtually fainting at the thought of washing out some human blood with dishes that have contained animal blood

we have people that are all a-quiver at the thought of 'germs'

no wonder we're all getting ill with these unnatural levels of anxiety about nature and bacteria. cleanser this, anti bac that. we'll simply die out soon due to our inability to cope with the world

pigpen

puddy wrote: »

i dont know whats happening to the human race i really dont. we have people who are 'grossed out' (what a ridiculous turn of phrase) about using a tampon and expresses that by using purile terminology

we have people who are virtually fainting at the thought of washing out some human blood with dishes that have contained animal blood

we have people that are all a-quiver at the thought of 'germs'

no wonder we're all getting ill with these unnatural levels of anxiety about nature and bacteria. cleanser this, anti bac that. we'll simply die out soon due to our inability to cope with the world

Apart from me.. an anyone who eats at my house LMAO!!!

juno

pigpen wrote: »

Apart from me.. an anyone who eats at my house LMAO!!!

This is probably loads tmi, but do you not worry that the detergent will give you thrush or some other nasty illness?

Gillyx

Some people are far too easily grossed out. It's been rinsed out, I really don't see the big deal. Bit different if you're throwing it in there amongst the mugs and pots with blood leaking out. Plus means it's nice and clean for re-using, personally if I was putting something up there I'd like to know I'd cleaned it to the best of my ability.

Teenie_D

puddy wrote: »

to these people who are outraged at a mooncup going in the dishwasher, do you all throw away dishes and plates that you have prepared raw meat on and which have traces of chicken, beef or pork blood on them?

No that would be silly! I wash them seperately from all the other dishes. I don't have a dishwasher, just wash up the good old fashioned way, but if I did have I would still wash them seperately!

puddy wrote: »

no wonder we're all getting ill with these unnatural levels of anxiety about nature and bacteria. cleanser this, anti bac that. we'll simply die out soon due to our inability to cope with the world

Yeah I agree, we are living in far too sterile a world and it's doing no favours to our immune systems. My house is not germ free and I don't (or very rarely uses) anti bac products, I wouldn't however, wash something that had menstrual blood on it along with dishes that myself and other members of my family will be eating off. Yes the temp of the dishwasher does clean it thoroughly but the thought of it, in my opinion, is just disgusting.

bagginslover

juno wrote: »

This is probably loads tmi, but do you not worry that the detergent will give you thrush or some other nasty illness?

Why would it? To get a 'nasty illness' you need a bacterium,or virus,which as we have already acertained, would be killed off by the heat, a detergent cannot infect you with anything but cleanliness! Thrush could be a possibility as its caused by an imbalance rather than the an infection, but dishwashers rinse so thoroughly to avoid tainting your food, its highly unlikely, and I would think pigpen would have noticed by now