Lysol Douche

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Feb 12, 2005

Call me crazy, but if i'm cleaning my floors with it, i'm not going to put it you-know-where as well lol.

MamaTheNurse, BSN, RN · Feb 12, 2005

I remember in the days before you could buy commercially packaged douches, I found plastic box under the bathroom sink with a rubber bag and a nozzle - my mom wouldn't tell me at first but then told me she mixed betadine and water in it to clean "down there" every so often - I think of that everytime I see someone use a betadine prep for something - yikes......

ktwlpn, LPN · Feb 14, 2005

This is the funniest and strangest thread since the whole Lotus birth thing. Nurses are so strange. I bet there is not any other profession of ppl anywhere who would talk about Lysol douches, sheep tampons, and gasoline enemas, and LAUGH.

:rotfl: I can ALMOST understand the douche thing-but the Lotus birth phenomon is so freaking wacko that it scares me :uhoh21: .....http://onyx-ii.com/birthsong/lotus.html I remember visting this web site and others like it during that discussion.....

TweetiePieRN · Feb 14, 2005

My late great-grandmother (born in 1913) told me that after she gave birth to her 1st child, she was told to bathe in lysol and water mixed. She was only supposed to use one capful to the basin of water, but she used the entire bottle!! She said it burned so bad. I guess it was to disinfect her after giving birth?!? She gave birth in 1930.

SmilingBluEyes · Feb 14, 2005

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

JVanRN · Feb 14, 2005

My late great-grandmother (born in 1913) told me that after she gave birth to her 1st child, she was told to bathe in lysol and water mixed. She was only supposed to use one capful to the basin of water, but she used the entire bottle!! She said it burned so bad. I guess it was to disinfect her after giving birth?!? She gave birth in 1930.

I guess if it's that diluted...but still lysol ouch....it just sounds so painful...I spray lysol in my trashcan to keep it from getting stinky and nasty. I guess when I read about lysol douche I was thinking pure lysol. okay I'm gonna stop NOW (crossing legs). OUCH!!!!!!

Maxs · Feb 15, 2005

A senior member of mamily, whom I suspect is in the early stages of Alzeimer's, told me today that her "hips were hurting" so she gave herself a Lysol Douche. She said that she had used it during the 40's as birth-control, and she thought this might make her feel better. She said she is feeling better now. I am really afraid that she is going to hurt herself. She said that she didn't use very much, but I am still worried. Ever heard of this?

Well there are side effects, first of all it washes away the normal bacteria called lactobacilli (normal flora). It decreases the pH of the lady parts (as you all may know that bacteria's cannot live in an acidic medium). So logically, but no studies have shown this, if the "pH" changes and discomforts the bacteria's, the bacteria may further move into the reproductive tract which may cause different problems. So the use of it is not recommended.

renerian, BSN, RN · Feb 15, 2005

I have had patients that did those types of douches....

renerian

jaimealmostRN · Feb 15, 2005

You know----I hope no one finds this offensive--but I don't think they DID engage in oral sex back then!!!
I have a novel from the '40s in which the characters are doctors and nurses; everyone shies away from this one doctor because of the "unsavory rumors" they have heard about him; the one nurse that will date him has "a bad reputation" and the other nurses shy away from HER; even she sometimes feels "degraded" by "certain unwholesome practices" he "subjects" her to---" finally, one of the doctors, in the middle of an argument hurls the worst possible insult at the "unsavory" doctor--" "Well, at least I don't engage in CUNNILINGUS!!!!"
Swear to God!!

OMG :rotfl: :rotfl: This tread is soooooooo funny I just had to respond! Funny this topic came up b/c my aunt (50's) was reading my copy of "Berdorf Blondes" which discusses oral sex, brazillians and all the like, and my aunt and mom began discussing this "new" facination with oral sex and how it was practically unheard of back in the day! I love this website

NurseFirst · Feb 15, 2005

OMG this has got to be the funniest thread I have seen in awhile!!!
I am ROTFLMAO! Next I am headed over to continue perusing the Museum of Menstruation! MUM's the word, right..... hehehe.
:rotfl:
What's really, ahem....interesting, is the MUM site was created/owned by a man....odd, just odd...
I'm still shaking my head over the Lysol douching and the whole "male superiority" issue of the early 1900's!!!!
Anyway, great thread!

That the MUM site was created by a man !?!?!? Very weird. A woman I might be able to understand, but a man !!?!?!?:uhoh21: :eek:

I've got it! Use that lysol douche on the placentas saved in the lotus births. :rolleyes:

:roll :roll :roll

NurseFirst

PS -- I have heard of using A-1 sauce, meat tenderizers for bee stings.

Somebody should take that post and transplant it to the "grandma's remedies" thread in the main forum :)

elizabells, BSN, RN · Mar 19, 2005

Thank you, lord, for letting me be born in 1981 to a militant feminist, so that I have never even considered: douching(with anything, let alone Lysol!!!) , maxi pads, scented tampons, not using a condom, or feminine deodorant spray.

I saw a woman in the market buying a box of douches a few months ago and I seriously considered trying to talk her out of it.

:nono:

As Eve Ensler says in The lady parts Monologues: "I don't want my ***** to smell like 'berries' or 'rain'!!!"

maxcat · Mar 19, 2005

:rotfl: I can ALMOST understand the douche thing-but the Lotus birth phenomon is so freaking wacko that it scares me :uhoh21: .....http://onyx-ii.com/birthsong/lotus.html I remember visting this web site and others like it during that discussion.....

Funny thread! OMG-the lotus thing seems crazy. It took 8 weeks (!) for my son's cord stump to fall off, and 3 weeks for my daughter's. I can't imagine...