Lysol Douche

DutchgirlRN, ASN, RN · Feb 11, 2005

Just when you thought you had heard it all. I cannot begin to imagine douching with Lysol. Didn't they have condoms back then? I'm sorry but I just wouldn't be that desperate for sex to have to douche with Lysol afterwards. Yucky !!

DDRN4me · Feb 11, 2005

I have used diet coke for years to unclog gtubes..or adolf's meat tenderizer in warm h20...both will work if they are used in a syringe held up to gravity.

Another cleaning product with a nurse on it.."red cross nurse" cleaning solution

i do remember dakins solution...and milk-n-molasses enemas...:uhoh21:

knew an old school nurse who used maalox or mom on open decubs, too.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Feb 11, 2005

I think any commercial for Genital Herpes, Laxitives/Constipation, Adult Diapers, and Feminine (spelling?) hygine have got to be the worst. Oh yeah and the ever present "Enzyte Bob" and similar character...I think those are the worst who can forget about him?

I know what you mean, if i hear another yeast infection commercial, i'm going to scream.

Yet a lot of channels refuse to show condom commercial, yet we have BC pill advertisements, "Enzyte Bob" as you said, and let's NOT forget Bob Dole endosing Viagra (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Bad mental pic!!!!!!!).

Fiona59 · Feb 11, 2005

The MUM site was a walk down memory lane. I remember having to take a "sanitary belt" with me when my first child was born (1990). They still used the big tagged maternity pads. But they provided mesh panties to hold them.

Makes shudder what they would have used Dettol for. I've heard people gargle, do wound care, floors, so I guess a douche wouldn't be that far off.

But honestly who douches any more?

z's playa · Feb 11, 2005

I know what you mean, if i hear another yeast infection commercial, i'm going to scream.
Yet a lot of channels refuse to show condom commercial, yet we have BC pill advertisements, "Enzyte Bob" as you said, and let's NOT forget Bob Dole endosing Viagra (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Bad mental pic!!!!!!!).

Nothing worse than watching tv with your guy and that comes on..............and he asks.......have you ever had one? *cringe

No. Never. Why? :rolleyes:

gypsyatheart · Feb 12, 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... :coollook:

I'm still shaking my head over the Lysol douching and the whole "male superiority" issue of the early 1900's!!!! :uhoh3: :no:

Anyway, great thread!

BRANDY LPN · Feb 12, 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.

breastfeedingRN · Feb 12, 2005

Nightie with no undies at night to air it out...unless a hurricane is forecast-then you better wear sweats-you would not want to be found up a tree naked from the waist down....

ROTFLMAO at that. this thread is hilarious yet sad at the same time the things women subjected themselves to.

Long Term Care Columnist / Guide · Feb 12, 2005

Oh, probably not........you have to have a certain kind of 'warped' sense of humor to enjoy this stuff!! :chuckle

The whole menstruation/douching thing is, I think, what separates women of the older generations and Generations X, Y, and Z (or whatever came after). Nobody under the age of 40 knows what it was like to wear those awful sanitary belts with what was basically a diaper........at an age when absolutely everything is potentially embarrassing, we had to cope with these things that slipped and slid and showed under our clothes so that EVERYONE knew we were on our period!! :imbar Most girls had no idea how to use a tampon........I remember the time one of the more, um, experienced girls in my junior class tried to teach me, shouting instructions through the tightly locked stall door while I struggled with pantyhose, embarrassment and only the vaguest concept of female anatomy. :chuckle

Our mothers also taught us that a woman must be clean 'down there' at all times, and that meant using feminine deodorant spray (anybody remember FDS?), dusting our genitalia with scented powders, and of course, douching. The fact that they might have been less than enlightened themselves, and thus gave us a lot of well-intentioned misinformation, never occurred to us until much later in life.

Today's women, in their late teens, 20s, and 30s are, for the most part, much better informed and far more comfortable with their bodies. They know that douching is unnecessary (for the most part) and take for granted the comfort of tampons and mini-pads. I had to laugh when my oldest daughter, who is 22, declared awhile back that she has never even worn a pad since she was 13......she used the package insert in MY box of Tampax to teach herself how to insert them, right after she first started having periods. Her younger sister has never used anything other than tampons---she thinks pads are 'gross'. And as for that 'fresh feminine feeling'.......well, they both thought I was out of my mind when I told them about the good old days when douches were a regular part of most women's cleansing routines. :chuckle

BRANDY LPN · Feb 12, 2005

I just had an epiphany of sorts, Is this where the saying "he/she is gonna catch something that ajax won't wash off" comes from? Please tell me that ppl didn't actually use ajax douches.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Feb 12, 2005

The more i thought of "Lysol douche" the more the words "burning sensation" came to mind.

BRANDY LPN · Feb 12, 2005

Just talked to my grandmother who says that she used Lysol douches regularly before her husband died as birthcontrol, and she swears it was very effective, said that she never got pregnant except when she wanted to, and in the same breath she said that she always used Lysol on the floors when the kids were little too. LOL