As opposed to a "Ladies Room" fourm? It has nothing to do with cleaning, simply a lesser known alternative to something every woman needs during her life time. Pads are bulky and limiting, Tampons risk TSS, just looking for more information on a safer alternative, you don't like it, don't read it...
Wondering if anyone has ever used...
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Chasey_Lane
Salt Life
The Diva Cup holds fluid inside your body. A tampon does the same thing. How is using one a risk for TSS, but the other (DC) not? Material?
libertytyranny
Dream Stealer
I wondered that myself..probably because the cup keeps it from coming in contact with your body, while the tampon holds it directly on the body best guess anyway
The main cause for TSS is staphylocccus aureus. Tampons help the infection along because they can cause small tears which allow the bacteria to enter the body. Extra absorabent tampons are more dangerous because the expand so greatly and can stick to the walls creating more tears upon removal. I don't believe the fluid has anything to do with TSS and would assume the material of the diva cup would minimize or eliminate tearing...
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Chasey_Lane
Salt Life
I have a newspaper for you. If you want it.
Dye Tied
Garden Variety Gnome
A rolled up newspaper would make a hell of a tampon.
Just think of the newsprint residue. Eww...
Chasey_Lane
Salt Life
Thanks. I stopped by Wawa on my way to the gym yesterday and picked up 2 copies. One to frame, and another just in case. Great pic and article.
Thanks. I stopped by Wawa on my way to the gym yesterday and picked up 2 copies. One to frame, and another just in case. Great pic and article.
Okay, I'll toss it.
My sister does and NOT fondly.
By the time I started, the self-stick ones were on the market BUT they were still just as thick and uncomfortable. 
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HouseCat
Guest
Crap, I'm old... I remember finding a belt like that in my Mom's undie-drawer when I was little and wondering what in the world it was for... LOL And those old pads with the tabs... scary stuff. May as well put a twin sized mattress tween yer legs.
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