Time of the month in light colored scrubs

[jkmk]

This is a 'personal' question for the female nurses... It seems in school and professionally, most nurses wear light blue scrubs and the school I'm looking into requires them. Typically during 'that time of the month' I wear dark pants just on the off chance that there may be an accident. I can only imagine when you are on a long shift and taking care of people, possibly doing strenuous transfers and such, it can be harder to get to the bathroom as often as needed and an unwanted incident could occur. Professionally, do most of you have the latitude to wear dark scrub bottoms and if you can't, what do you do?

Sorry for asking a 'gross' question that people aren't really 'supposed' to talk about, but I'm trying to figure out the logistics of our annoying monthly situation. You're all nurses or nurses-to-be, so I figure you should be able to handle personal questions like these, if anyone can.

[healthstar, BSN, RN]

My scrubs are completely white...and I get extremely worried when that "time of the month comes" I try not to sit anywhere and keep checking myself every second and also tell my friends to see if anything is visible.

[Pneumothorax, BSN, RN]

I can't wait to wear all white. period + whites = awesomness...

LOL, I just hope my clinical days are on the tail end of my monthly EVERYTIME ... then I should be ok hahaha.

[Kaychell]

Thankfully our clinical scrubs are red! I never thought about what for the people who had to wear whites.

[rainbowbrite85]

Hello all! Someone just sent me a link to this thread after I just posted the same question. Thank you all so much for the suggestions - I was having a mini-panic attack over this!! I looked up the Diva Cup and found out it was made of silicone and unfortunately I have an allergy to silicone (found this out after wearing contacts for over 10 years!) I think I'm going to save up for a pair of Spanx and go that route. Thank you all so much

[Chixie]

I wear white dresses for placements and i used to be so paranoid about leaking. I had the coil fitted which made me spot lightly for the first 6 months but now thankfully it has stopped the periods altogether. I could not cope with how my periods were and wearing a white uniform.

[blaundee]

Bump. I googled for this, maybe it'll help someone else too LoL

[KThurmond]

I had to wear white pants during clinicals during my CNA course. I wore a pad and tampon and on the ride up there had an accident. I had a nurse stop me and tell me. Talk about embarrassing. I lived too far away to go home and change without affecting my clinical hours, so I told my clinical instructor. I used my Tide pen but it still had a spot. I had to wear her scrub jacket around my waist all day. Not trying to be TMI but day 2 is the worst lol

[blaundee]

Fwiw- regular strength hydrogen peroxide will quickly and completely remove blood stains, and most facilities have that on the shelves!