Nabila (pseudonym), a student of Dinajpur Government College graduate. While studying graduation, he first learned how to use napkin or pad during menstrual period. Earlier, he used old clothes. He used these clothes more than once. Yet, her village girls could not become familiar with the NAPKIN issue.
Not only in Nabili, there are numerous women in the country who do not reveal this shame or out of fear.
Women's menstrual periods or menstrual periods are important. During this period, women are bleeding for two to seven days. Most women use old clothes to prevent bleeding. It is very risky that many women do not know. It leads to health risk.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that the old clothes can be used three times during the menstrual period. That means, new clothes will be used every two or three months. If not, health risk will increase.
Doctors advised to use different companies' napkin instead of old clothes. But women of many villages in Bangladesh are still ignorant about the subject.
What is the reason why women are not using napkin, and why use old clothes or repeatedly? The matter was asked by some women. Most of them were graduate students and housewives.
Jannatunnesa (pseudonym) student of Zoology department of the third year of Nilphamari Government College. Before the start of the monthly, how would he collect old clothes every month, he would chase him once. But after knowing about the napkin, he shuddered slightly if he worried.
It was talking about a woman named Suma Akter (pseudonym) through social networking. Although he did not want to share at first, he later did a lot of things.
This woman grew up in Kishoreganj town. But he did not know much better about napkin. Knowing the first time at the university students were taught. Since then, use napkin. But when the university used to go to the village for a vacation, it had to be in danger.
Suma said that the brothers in the ninth grade were among the two brothers and sisters. Because of this, he was shy to send him to the store to buy it. As a result, her reliance on old clothes was in the menstrual periods. And after marriage, the husband also works ashamed to ask them to buy it.
Talking to a girl from a renowned school in the capital. The tenth grade student said that her menses began when she was studying in the seventh grade. At that time he had to use old clothes. Even if the girlfriends heard the use of napkin, they could not ask them. For this reason, he would buy a napkin by depositing Tiffin's money every month.
The student said that many of her classmates did not come to class during menstruation. Many of them are still used in old clothes. The teacher of the class does not even have any kind of awareness about this matter.
Some of married women say that the whole month is unintentional, but they have to be worried about menstrual period. Because the clothes they use at that time have to be stuttering to dry them. To be forced to clean clothes, behind the bed is to dry in the empty part or verandah. And the clothes are to be washed with good detergent or germicidal soap, it is also unknown to them. A lot of menstrual clothes are used many months later.
A woman resident of Terminal area of Rangpur sadar upazila said, "After the menstrual cycle, I have been using old clothes. No one ever heard of it, it is risky. Now you hear it again or not!
During the menstrual period, clean pad or napkin use, regular bathing, washing the used laundry with soap and detergent, dry in dry sun, wash hands with soap while changing the pad, washing vaginal sex with soap, and always dry the genital Some doctors said that most women do not know about keeping them.
Red Orange chief executive Nikob Rajib Ahmed, working on the issue, asked how risky old clothes were being asked. He told Priyamcom, "Many people do not know how harmful a woman is using for the use of old clothes during the rituals. Bangladeshi women are still very ignorant about the matter. But it should be done to make everyone aware of this. '
Elderina Mustarti, who worked for a long time with women's health. He told Priyamcom that the use of old clothes could lead to the transmission of reproductive system. Usually it is a fungal infection and itching. Later periods of infertility may lead to infertility.
As a reason to use old clothes, Muttari said, many people use old clothes if they have the will, unconsciousness, ignorance and many others. Apart from this, many people do this due to financial condition. However, in order to avoid contamination of reproductive system, all women should use the sanitary napkin of any good company.