It is a bell-shaped cup made of silicone that is non-toxic which do not react with our body because it is relatively inactive at ordinary temperatures.

What Is A Menstrual Cup? 

<ol><li>Cups are cheaper than buying pads every month. Company X is selling 44 pads pack at the price of 371 INR which is going to last just for 2 months whereas Company Y is selling Cups at the same price of 371 INR but this is going to last for years because you can reuse it every month without being worried of pads getting over.</li></ol>

Why Am I Encouraging You To Use Cups? #1

Cups are better for the environment than sanitary pads which are typically disposed of in one of two ways: they are either buried in landfills, where they take 500–800 years to decompose, or they are burned in incinerators, where toxic fumes such as dioxins, phuron, and other carcinogenic compounds are released into the atmosphere.

Why Am I Encouraging You To Use Cups? #2 

You can do anything while wearing cups without getting worried about blood leakage strains like pads. You can swim, dance, sit spreading your legs, sleep in any position you want, roll in gardens, you can even pee without removing it! what’s more beautiful than this!

Why Am I Encouraging You To Use Cups? #3

There is no correct age at which a female can start using a cup. If you are 12 you can start now, if you are 35 you can still start now. Every human who has a vagina is going to take time to adapt maybe it will work right away or it can take several cycles to make it work.

Why Am I Encouraging You To Use Menstrual Cups? #4 

The female body has three holes first is the urethra, conduction of urine from the bladder. The second is the vagina, during sexual intercourse, it’s where the penis is penetrated. The birth canal is the passageway via which a baby exits a woman’s body during delivery. It’s also the path menstrual blood takes to depart the body during periods. The third is the anus where you pass waste from the body.

Knowledge about Female Holes

<ol><li>Small — Any age group who had never done intercourse. </li><li>Medium — Any age group who are sexually active but has never give birth. </li><li>Large — Age group who has got pregnant or delivered a baby. </li> </ol>

What Are The Sizes of Menstrual Cup? 

Sterilize the cup in boiled water for 2 minutes to kill the bacteria before using or use menstrual cup wash liquid 3–4 drops where you rub the liquid on the cup thoroughly and wash it.<ol><li> Fold — there are many ways to fold the cups, these are the most common and easy foldsfolds</li></ol><ul><li>Punch down and C fold </li></ul> 2. Insert — yes, it will hurt a little while inserting into your vagina but it’s normal because it’s new. Sit or Stand in positions and aim toward your tail bone.

How to Use Any Menstrual Cup? 

<ol><li>The cup should have tiny holes at the upper part to provide you vacuum while removing it every 4–6 hours like pads.</li></ol>

Things to keep in mind while purchasing a cup for anybody #1

You will hear the pop or feel that it has opened inside. (insert fingers and check if it is fit and non movable)Choose the longest tip cup to pull the cup easily while disposing of the blood.

Things To Keep In Mind While Purchasing A Menstrual Cup #2

3. It must be FDA approved ( FDA approved means the public can be very confident that this product meets the high standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality )

Things To Keep In Mind While Purchasing A Menstrual Cup #3

<ul><li>A Menstrual Cup Can Get Lost Inside the Vagina — the fact is you will feel LIKE it will disappear inside your body because you are going to feel so light and comfortable but it is never going to get because the vaginal canal is only about 3–4 inches long until it reaches the cervix, which stops the menstrual cup from going into the uterus. It does not connect to other parts of the body there is no space to get lost. </li></ul>

Debunking Myths #1

Virgins can’t use a menstrual cup — In layman terms, using a menstrual cup will not cause you to lose your virginity. There is a great deal of misunderstanding regarding what it means to be a virgin. Virginity is considered to be biologically linked to the hymen and whether it is “intact” in many cultures across the world. The fact is that the only way to become non-virginal is to engage in sexual activity.

Debunking Myths #2

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HYPNAGOGIC HALLICUNATIONS is not a symptom of mental illness they are vivid visual, auditory, tactile, or even kinetic perceptions that only occur during the night (stage 1 of the sleep cycle) that your brain might do during the process of falling asleep. Whereas HYPNOPOMPIC HALLICUNATIONS occur in the morning as you’re waking up. When you experience these hallucinations, you see, hear, or feel things that aren’t actually there.

Sleep Vocabulary 

HYPNIC JERKS or HYPNAGAGIC JERKS . It’s an involuntary muscle contraction whose possible reasons includes poor sleep habits, stress, anxiety, stimulants where people experience symptoms such as feeling as though they are falling, rapid heartbeat, dreaming about falling, rapid breathing, sweating . But don’t fret, these sensations are not signs of any underlying health condition.

PARASOMNIA, a sleep disorder that causes abnormal behaviour while sleeping which includes behaviour such as sleepwalking, sleep talking, nightmares, night terrors, bedwetting, bruxism (teeth grinding), sexsomnia (sexual behaviours while sleeping), sleep-texting etc. This results in undesirable effects such as daytime sleepiness or fatigue, not remembering doing certain activities, wake up wondering where you are, unfamiliar cuts on your body which could be caused by stress, anxiety, insomnia, sleep deprivation, neurological conditions.

After talking to people about their sleep schedule you realized that sleep quality matters more than quantity . You look to your right and notice a young woman sleeping on a chair, and it strikes you as amusing that the ability to sleep anywhere, at any time, is a superpower and it is called — NARCOLEPSY where a person suffers from chronic neurological excessive uncontrollable daytime drowsiness which causes sudden sleep attacks, cataplexy( sudden loss of involuntary muscle due to strong emotion such as laughter, anger or crying), hallucinations, the person can sleep in an ongoing conversation

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