Sanitary towels for teens

pigpen

Reverbe wrote: »

tiff ask yourself this then would you be happy to eat in a restaurant where human secretions had been mingling with the dishware??:cool:

Have a research about how many different bacterium live on your dish cloth.. and you use that on ALL your pots and possibly your worksurfaces and table too..

Unless of course you wash each pot individually in fresh water with a clean cloth you wipe other peoples bodily fluids over every single thing you wipe.

Every restaurant and bar in the world washes its dishes and glasses and cutlery in a soup of other peoples secretions.. nice thought when you are tucking into your £30 meal that someone has spat on that plate most likely.. itched their ear with the end of the fork.. and they arent just touched by one person.. they have at least 3 people handle each item of cutlery or crockery before you eat with them.. think of all the disgusting things their hands have done .. picked up other peoples dirty dishes, handled filthy money (yes money is REALLY dirty!), itched their nose/head/bum crack) Changed their own tampon..

give me a single washed out mooncup in one DW load a month (usually ) any time...

Humphrey10

pigpen wrote: »

menstrual loss is sterile until it reaches the air..

It isn't.
It passes through the vagina in which many bacteria live, so it will become 'contaminated' by these bacteria (this won't be the case if you are using a mooncup but I imagine they don't form an airtight seal so some bacteria will still get in I assume).
Also, menstrual blood is blood, hence the name, so is as safe or as dangerous as blood is, depending on what you are going to it and what infections you do or do not have.

Anyway it's not going to do anyone any harm to wash mooncups in a dishwasher.

pigpen

moomoomama27 wrote: »

With everyone elses dishes, cups etc!? Or on their own?

the breast pump goes in as is.. the cat dishes are soaked to get the residue and crispy bits off and then put in.

Breast milk is the closest thing you can get to blood.. which is why it is so much better for hydrating than plain water.

pigpen

Humphrey10 wrote: »

It isn't.
It passes through the vagina in which many bacteria live, so it will become 'contaminated' by these bacteria (this won't be the case if you are using a mooncup but I imagine they don't form an airtight seal so some bacteria will still get in I assume).
Also, menstrual blood is blood, hence the name, so is as safe or as dangerous as blood is, depending on what you are going to it and what infections you do or do not have.

Anyway it's not going to do anyone any harm to wash mooncups in a dishwasher.

they do have an air tight seal.. or they leak.. and unless you have infections it is all harmless normal body bugs in the vagina... nothing that will cause disease .. unlike nasal secretions or faeces for example..

Humphrey10

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!

puddy

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?

Teenie_D

Humphrey10 wrote: »

Anyway it's not going to do anyone any harm to wash mooncups in a dishwasher.

Maybe not I don't know but that is just bl00dy gross, why would you even do that? I would never subject my family to eating off dishes that have been washed with a mooncup, even if they are thoroughly clean....rank!

bagginslover

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

Its blood guys, we all have it, its on everything you touch meat with, but human blood is (generally speaking) safer! Dishwasher wash at above 40 degrees, a temperature at which enzymes denature, as do most bacteria and virus's, rendering them harmless. Those who aren't killed at that temperature will be killed at the much higher temps that most washers go to. Unless anyof yo are actually personal friends of pigpen, and are likely to eat at her house, leave her alone!

Back to the original topic...
I have used tampons since my second period when I was on holiday in Spain. I didn't want to miss out on the pool etc, so mum got me some and away I went. I do still use pads depending on my mood, how heavy I am, if there is a 'y' in the month etc I wear tampons over night too, I've never had any problems with wearing them for 8 hours while I sleep.

vroombroom

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...

Teenie_D

bagginslover wrote: »

Its blood guys, we all have it, its on everything you touch meat with, but human blood is (generally speaking) safer! Dishwasher wash at above 40 degrees, a temperature at which enzymes denature, as do most bacteria and virus's, rendering them harmless. Those who aren't killed at that temperature will be killed at the much higher temps that most washers go to. Unless anyof yo are actually personal friends of pigpen, and are likely to eat at her house, leave her alone!

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If anyone, not just pigpen comes one here and admits to that, of course people are going to say something about it! I do realise that the bacteria will be killed due to the temp of the dishwasher, I'm not disputing that but the whole idea of it is just gross. Then again I'll never eat at her house so wont need to worry!