jane a white

im sure i will now be attacked by gyn nurses telling me they have no time! This im sure is also true they r too busy dealing with stds etc! It seams its once again up to the internet.

maybe my comments should have been aimed at gyn/family planning/womens health nurses. I aimed them at school nurses due to this being brought to light in my mind by my school nurse friends reaction to me. My point is one of education however and my own school talk is the only one i have ever had. Also if girls/women/females r not told EVERYTHING is school it seams meny r just not told at all. I mean to highlight the general female populations lack of education (where ever it could/should have come from) on this subject which i feel i have most certainly done.

point taken!

also can i point out that i too descovered the alternatives while surfing the internet! While a young girl may not have the finesse of an older lady i am very sure that the night before their little talk some of them may google tampons! If they where to find some little link titled alternative tampons etc its not too big a jump for the questions to be asked in class is it? I just hope the adult in charge has all the answers.

yes i find the same thing with the moon cup. I think they r the same really but the mooncup is medical grade silicon and not natural rubber. I was quite shocked to find that my school nurse friend didn't seam to have a clue what i was talking about and glad i got to her before some teen did - my friends reaction was 'a what?' - not that helpful really. I do agree that the cups need a degree of how did you put it 'finesse' but just also feel girls and women too should be aware/informed about all options. Well done to your friend i say and even if her girls are never interested in anything but tampons and pads at least they have had the information.

that was my only aim. I am not a nurse as i pointed out and didn't realise i would ruffle so meny feathers however i am now glad that i did.

im not sugesting its for everyone i was originally just asking if alternative methods where even mentioned in class that's all. Im glad i seam to have got everyone to talk. You are right i would have been 26 when mooncup came out but my point was that other similar products where out which where never talked about in my class i just wondered weather that had changed that was all. Im really glad i got so meny comments from nurses.

. As for the idea that i wish to advertise any product (please see original post where i state that now i have looked into it i have found lots of alternative products) i don't suppose the brand name tampax has ever sliped from anyones lips when what they really meant to say was tampon! In fact my school had a tampax rep give us a talk on tampon use - it worked i was a loyal customer until now!

i actually train horses for a living since you r so intrested. If you read my original post you will see that i also said i had found other options with i never knew about. I do take your point that maybe at the age of girl which you talk to things need to be kept as simple as possible but on the other hand i do feel that 30 is very late to find out that there are meny other options. My point in writing this was to ask why it has taken so long for me to learn more on this topic. I was also shocked that some nurses do not keep fully up to date with all products.

reply to needs more chocolate - great name by the way. You can google mooncup.com or see youtube for women you have used mooncup. Mooncup also is bleach free and has no risk of TTS.

reply to twilightrnurse. Actually a moon cup can stay in place for up to 8 hrs and sits no where near to the urethra! I also hated using tampons as they used to dry me out so much. Also with a cup there is no chance of tampons spiling out of ur bag if its dropped on the school floor etc.

let me first say that i am not a nurse of any kind and nor am i a student having just turned 30yrs of age. What i would like to ask is weather school nurses are giving their students all the options when it comes to advice about menstral protection? I have just personally descovered a product called a moon cup and while not wishing to advertise the more i look into it the more other alternatives i find. I now feel cheated that i was not given all the options when i first started to mensturate - has this changed? I think not! I have a friend who is a school nurse herself and while out with her one evening she menstioned that she was to give a talk about periods to a group of young girls the next morning. I told her about the moon cup i had just started to use and to my surprise she had never even heard if the product and was just going to sugest the use of pads / tampons without i suspect even considering the alternatives. I do understand and indeed remember that this is a delicate subject with girls this age but i do also think that with the amount of waste materials which end up in land fill or washed up on beaches the other greener and often cheaper options could do with a quick description. Hope this coment is useful to someone who is a school nurse.