What is menstrual hygiene??
How can you keep and maintain menstrual hygiene?
What are the importance of maintaining menstrual hygiene?
Question: what is the cause of menstrual hygiene?
It is a physiological process.
It is a curse of God.
It is caused by sin.
It is caused by disease.
Menstruation is a natural process considered a taboo in some lands. Sadly, a lot of women, girls inclusive today suffer restrictions during menstruation. In a survey carried out in a certain country, a lot of girls are restricted from attending religious activities because it is believed that they’re unclean.
50% of girls too are restricted from eating certain foods. 43% of girls are also restricted from performing household chores.43% of girls weren’t allowed to play and 17% weren’t allowed to attend school during their period.
What more?
28% were not allowed to sleep in the same room with other family members. Whilst 70% aren’t allowed to take their bath. More so, 40% aren’t allowed to cook and more.
All these are as a result of ignorance.
So far, we’ve been talking about menstruation- what is menstruation??
Menstruation is simply known as having your period. Females have two ovaries which contains bunch of eggs. These eggs are two tiny that they cannot be seen literally.
During menstrual cycle, your hormones makes those tiny eggs to mature , which means that it is ready to be fertilized by a sperm cell .
These hormones do not only make the eggs mature, they also make the lining of the uterus or your womb thick. This lining is made up of tissue and blood. So halfway through your menstruation, your hormones tell one of your ovaries to release a mature egg- ovulation has occurred.
Once the egg leaves your ovary, it travels through your Fallopian tube toward the uterus hoping to be fertilized by a sperm. If there’s no sorry cell to fertilize it, it implies that your uterus no longer needs the lining.
With what result?
The unfertilized egg which travels to the uterus breaks up the lining- both the eggs, the blood,the nutrients and the tissues in the lining all become waste,hence they flow out of your body through the vagina and boom!! You see your period.
So how can a female keep and maintain personal hygiene??
Choose your method of sanitation; this involves that you use one method. Albeit there are a number of ways including the use of sanitary napkins, dry clothes, menstrual cups or pads., you’re encouraged to use just one method of protection since using different brands may make you uncomfortable.
Change regularly
Wash regularly
Don’t use soaps in your vagina; the vagina has its own cleaning mechanism that works in a very fine balance of good and bad bacteria... hence , washing the vagina can kill the good bacteria making way for infection. So you can use soap on the external part but use warm Water on the internal part.
Use the right washing technique; from the vagina to the anus not on the anus to the vagina. Doing the opposite can cause bacteria from the anus to lodge in the vagina leading to infections.
Discard your used sanitary pads or other product properly; wash your hands properly after discarding because your hand may have touched the use portion of the pad.
Beware of a pad rash.
Have a regular bath
Thanks for reading and remain clean.
Very educative