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What You Need To Know About Menstrual Cups

By Amy Thomas


For many years now, women have been using pads or tampons to collect blood and protect their clothing during their monthly periods. However, there is another more reliable way that keep a woman clean and comfortable. This is by using menstrual cups. This cup is used similarly to a tampon but collects the blood rather than absorbing it. This cup can be long-lasting and reusable, but others could be disposable.

Latex rubber and silicone can be used to make a flexible menstrual cup. Such a cup can be put to use all-through a cycle but there is need to change them regularly specifically when one is at the days of heavy flow to avert leaks. After every 12 hours and even with leakages, a cup needs to be taken off. At the culmination of a monthly period, the cup that is non-disposable can be cleaned, sterilized and kept for use in the subsequent period.

There are a number of benefits accruing from the use of menstrual cup. First is that they are very convenient in comparison to the conventional pads or tampons. This is since the cup is usable overnight with no worries of changing and could be put on for longer periods without emptying compared to pads and tampons, this is about half a day. In addition, people with heavy flows and people who may be travelling find the cup convenient and easy to pack.

The cup also offers some health benefits in comparison to sanitary products that are disposable. This is for the reason that a cup possesses no injurious substances that may include fragrances as well as chlorine. In addition, they cause no allergies and thus suitable for women with dermatitis, latex allergies or sensitive skin. They also have no absorption agents and this keeps away dryness of the vagina, are easy to clean and sterilize.

A menstrual cup is usually economical and promotes green environment. This is for the reason that they have a design that enables them to last for years and this lowers their costs in the end, as one need not to keep purchasing new ones like in other sanitary items. Additionally, because they are reusable they generate less waste and this promotes a tidy environment.

Compared to other sanitary products, they can hold more liquid. Basically, a normal tampon holds about six to nine grams of liquid. However, a menstrual cup can hold almost five time the amount. This makes it easy for individual with heavy flow.

How the menstrual cup works is not usually complicated. Just before the period begin, fold the cup and insert it similar to a tampon without an applicator. When inserted correctly, you should not feel it. This is similar to putting a birth control ring or a diaphragm in place.

Once inserted, it open up and rests on the vaginal walls even though it may first be rotated, and forms some seal so that it prevent any leakages. In removal of the cup, one simply pulls the sticking-out stem at its bottom, then pinching the base, the seal is released. If a cup can be reusable, it is emptied and washed in water with soap. A non-reusable cup however is simply disposed and replaced with a new one.




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