7 Great Things Your Body Experiences When You Replace Tampons With Menstrual Cups

After hitting that pesky puberty and growing up, you may trust your faithful tampons on keeping that flow on the low but once tides get heavy down there, you will be finding yourself scrambling to the public washrooms, frequently back and forth, only to despair once you see the giant scarlet stain that has escaped your now traitorous white sponge and settled awkwardly on your clothes. Uh oh.

The memory still makes you cringe, doesn’t it?

Sanitary napkins may be considered dependable, but menstrual cups have shown some remarkable promise, for you can wear these bad boys, stress-free for around 12 hours! And to sweeten the deal? They will even save you your money.

Getting interested? Well here are seven more interesting things that occur once you replace those old tampons:

1. Say Goodbye To Those Toxic Chemicals

Your average, run-of-the-mill tampon is essentially produced using two materials: rayon and cotton. Rayon, interestingly, is a synthetic material derived from wood and contains a chemical dioxin—its natural byproduct. According to recent studies conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency, frequent contact with or long duration of exposure to rayon is remarkably carcinogenic to humans. Rayon can interfere with your body’s immunity and probably even fertility. An alternative could be the use of natural cotton tampons, but they still pose a threat of polluting the environment when disposed off, not to mention that they still smother your nether regions from breathing. On the other hand, menstrual cups are made of a breathable, flexible material that can be recycled and is non-toxic.

2. Good Bacteria Can Now Remain Where It Belongs

 While superb absorption is a virtue to look for in a tampon when you’re riding the crimson tides, this can also be a downfall as in the course of absorbing blood; it also exhausts your vagina of good bacteria that is necessary for the balance of a healthy ecosystem. On the other hand, menstrual cups will collect blood but spare your vagina the dryness that leaves it susceptible to the loss of good bacteria from its natural flora. This loss, according to Ob-gyn Elisa Ross from the Cleveland Clinic Women’s Health Institute, renders a pH misbalance of your lady parts placing you at a greater risk of developing yeast infections.

 3. Bid Adieu To Bad Odor From Your Lady Parts

Unlike pads or sanitary napkins, tampons do not smother your entire vulva, hence sparing a little air circulation that can prevent malodors to some extent.

Yet again they aren’t fully effective for blood will still seep down and stagnate in them. Menstrual cups face no such issues, however, for the blood is simply collected to be disposed off later.

4. Bye-Bye Period Cramps

Though there is yet no proper scientific study conducted to back their claims, most women who swear by menstrual cups claim to have experienced fewer period cramps once they gave up tampons. Let’s admit it, merely the thought of experiencing less of those agonizing menstrual cramps is rather like a quaint placebo-type reassurance. But this belief, however, may not be that implausible because unlike tampons, menstrual cups do not exert pressure on the vagina.

 5. Get Reacquainted With Your Body

This may seem rather revolting, but hear us out. Period cups can be a great measure to determine the health of your body by gauging certain elements of your menstrual cycle. Since the menstrual blood is collected conveniently, you can assess the relative thickness, smell, color and texture of your blood every month and able to configure whether your body is doing fine or if there is something that comes across as off. According to Siva Mohan, the founder of a private notable Ayurveda clinic located in California, called Svastha Health: In the age of old, the women would conduct their very own personal healthcare checkups by taking advantage of these revealing signs to assess their body’s health.

6. Out of Tampons Once Again? Relax, We Got You Covered

Sanitary napkins, pads and tampons have (rather infamously) an only one-time use. We’ve all have been through at least one episode of the ‘Damn it, I’m out of stock panic’ where we rush around in a frenzy, pleading with more judicious friends to spare us some embarrassment, and maybe a tampon of course (ha). But with a menstrual cup, sisters, say no to any more harried surprises! A menstrual cup can be utilized for up to a decade if properly cared for and cleaned.

7. Overall, Say Hello To Happier Periods

Your time of the month will always suck, that my friend, is a universal truth. Maybe using the word happy and period in the same sentence was a little ambitious of us, but we can promise this—using menstrual cups may make your monthly unwelcome friend suck just a little bit less. According to one of the studies in the Journal of Women’s Health that competed for menstrual cups against tampons—more women, it was found, preferred using menstrual cups overall.

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