" OTHER ALTERNATIVE FOR SANITARY PAD IN INDIA"

OTHER ALTERNATIVE FOR SANITARY PAD IN INDIA

Before reading this article understand what is mensuration and its status in India 
https://ashmitamoidu.blogspot.com/2019/11/menstrual-taboos-in-india.html

I have discussed about mensuration and problems faced by ladies during mensuration in India. Sanitary pad is commonly used by Indian women during mensuration. Now in this blog, I am going to discuss other alternatives of pad available in India and why are other alternatives better than sanitary pads. 

Wearing pad can now and again cause something unfortunate rash. This can incite itches, developing, and redness. In some cases, the rash can be the eventual outcome of troubling from something the pad is delivered utilizing. Various times the mix of moistness and warmth can add to bacterial advancement napkins are created utilizing plastic. Each pad contains what may be contrasted with around four plastic packs. A cautious, coherent examination about the fixings related to the creation of superfluous napkins is upsetting. Better thought ought to be paid for the transfer of the perilous cushion making a hazard both the earth and women's prosperity.

 A large portion of the synthetic substances from these pads arriving at the soil cause groundwater contamination, loss of soil ripeness. Transfer of this clean waste is likewise an unavoidable issue mark. A lady may be utilizing 9,000 (20 -30 pad per month, 240-360 per year) napkins in her lifetime and when dioxin aggregates in the body, it can cause genuine wellbeing dangers and infections, resistant immune system, diabetes, hormone brokenness, pelvic fiery sickness, ovarian cancer and others. The pads are scented which can cause diseases in the vagina. Drawn out contact has been additionally connected to skin responses, rashes. Synthetic and plastic limit airflow and traps warmth and clamminess, causing yeast and microscopic organism’s development in the vaginal region. In spite of the fact that the introduction to dioxin through sterile cushions is considered immaterial side-effect creators, the nature of dioxin to get collected in your the body can possibly cause malignancies like cervical disease and ovarian disease; a too much moist cushion can harbour microorganisms and cause contamination. This can cause urinary tract and vaginal diseases.

There are many alternatives available, but here I am only discussing only there which I am common with.

Tampons: 

In this way, they're fundamentally two tampons that are associated with a solitary string.

Step By Step Instructions to Use It

1. You can squat put one leg up, or sit on the latrine with your knee separated.
2.  Push the tampon into your vagina utilizing the tool or your finger, contingent upon what sort of tampon you have. Embedding a tampon in your vagina is progressively agreeable in case you're loose.

 Cost- Rs 90-Rs 450 depends on the brand

REUSABLE PAD: 

In spite of the fact that reusable pad, they're off the customs and method for the business. You can buy sets of 10 or 20. Notwithstanding the way that they are considerably more skin-pleasing as it is made out of common cotton, they moreover help decline the waste nonessential pads produce.

Step By Step Instructions to Use It

Wash the reusable pad and use it

Cost-Rs 250-2000

MENSTRUAL CUP 

A menstrual cup is a sort of reusable refined neatness thing. It's a little, versatile pipe formed cup made of plastic or the silicone that you insert into your vagina to catch and accumulate period fluid. Cups can hold more blood than various techniques, driving various women to use them as an eco-obliging alternative rather than tampons The extraordinary part about using a menstrual cup is the chance of improvement and the low probability of pollutions; anyway, getting familiar with a part will take some time. It is sensible, is more secure than tampons, it holds more blood than pads or tampons; it is ideal for the earth over pads or tampons.

Step By Step Instructions to Utilize

1.  Clean the cup.
2.  Preceding the primary use, sterilize the cup with foaming water for 5 minutes.
3.  Overlay and expansion the crumbled cup. There are various ways to deal with wrinkle the cup; we recommend the Punch Down overlay and the C-cover.   
4. Check if the cup is spread out. 
5. Clear the menstrual cup. 
6. Void and re-implant.

The period cups esteem ranges from Rs.435 to Rs.3600 dependent upon the brand

Regardless of whether we look at the value a sterile cushion cost Rs 6 for every pad, women need minimum 4 cushion for every day during mensuration period, so every day Rs 24, for a large portion of the female will 5-day mensuration cycle in a month, so Rs 120 every month, in a year Rs 1440, for 5 years she goes through Rs 7220. The time on earth length of a mensuration cup of cost 500 is 2 years (min). Tampons has a life length of 5 years. By utilizing elective we can keep away from rashes and other wellbeing issues, now it is your decision.

                                             ASHMITA MOIDU