How To Maintain Your Personal Hygiene During Menstrual Period

How To Maintain Your Personal
Hygiene During Menstrual Period
Most women if not all women never enjoy
menstrual period because of the associated
pains, stomach cramps, lack of energy,
discomfort doing some certain activities, and
even limiting normal activities. In some culture
and in the olden days, women who are
menstruating are not allow doing some certain
things and are banish from even coming near
their place of worship.
So, it is important to maintain highly personal
hygiene during menstrual period, though it
comes with more work but it is better you rise
up to the challenges because, you’re not just
going to do without the challenges. And for you
to be able to stand where people are and
participate in the activities going on, you need
to be at your best hygiene .
Improper personal hygiene during menstrual
period will make you smell , not just smelling but
offensive odour that you’ll be ashamed of
yourself going near people for any kind of
activities.
Your personal hygiene during menstrual period
start here now
1 . Carefully select the kind of product you wish
to use during your menstrual period. Most
ladies will go for either sanitary pad or
tampons, but if you’re just starting, it is better
you made use of sanitary pad.
Sanitary pad is easier to maintain than tampon,
but the only discomfort with pad is that it get
bulky when you have heavy flow, it is not
always recommended during the summer
because it becomes noticeable when there is
heavy flow. You’ll need to avoid fitting clothes
during summer days and ensure you use
proper sanitary pad size.
2. It is always recommended to change and
wash your sanitary pad often, not just for the
cleanliness only but also to avoid offensive
odour from the menstrual flow. And before and
after changing the pad, always wash your hand
to prevent bacterial infection in your private
part. There’s not much need to clean the inside
of your vagina when menstruating, why –
because, it can disturb the normal body floral
and encourage infection.
3. Ensure you take your bath daily and as many
times you want it in a day, it is sometimes
preferable to bath with warm water which will
also help you to prevent menstrual cramps.
There are many moisturizing products you can
use to make you look and feel fresh with good
scent after taking your bath.
4 . If you prefer tampon to external pad because
of the longer times it take to change it, you
should ensure you don’t forget to change it or
left it unchanged beyond 6 hours. In some
brand of tampons, it is stated that, if left
unchanged beyond 12 to 18 hours, there is
possibility of having a toxic shock.
There seem to be a connection between
tampon and Toxic Shock Syndrome.
Staphylococcus aurous bacteria is being
carried by some women under menstruation in
their V. Absorbent tampons provide the right
medium for this bacteria to be cultured, grow
and spread infection associated with Toxic
Shock Syndrome.
Toxic shock is known with severe vomiting,
high fever and d