To be a bit [hmm] as to why a bottle of dettol has instructions on how to douche?

[rainydaysarebad]

Bought a bottle to treat cuts and scratches and found instructions on how much to mix with water to douche with. It is widely known that douching is bad for you, and messes with the pH of your vagina. Wth would a bottle of dettol give you instructions to do it? I mean I dont see how shoving dettol up there would treat you for any problems. Isn't it a bit irresponsible isn't it? Or maybe not? Intrigued.

Snuck? Snurk, obviously.

Ok just had another look and it says "if medically advised". Dont know why a doctor would advise douching. Still wincing at the thought of dettol up the vagina...especially after child birth and tearing. < shudders >

Yeah a litle bit in the bath is nice! It smells like jelly babies.

What's AF?

I'm going to confess I have used a douche. One of the American ones in the pretty floral box. I lived there, and saw all these things on the shelves in the pharmacy, and people buying them, and I was absolutely intrigued.

It's a squeezy bottle full of water/vinegar solution, and a long nozzle with holes all along its length. You shove the nozzle up your foof and squeeze the bottle, and the vinegar solution dribbles out of the holes, dribbles out of your foof, and dribbles down over your hands, your legs, your feet, and the bathroom floor. Apparently you should do it in the shower or over the loo; for some reason I assumed the solution would 'stay up there' until you went to the loo. It doesn't.

My foof wasn't noticeable cleaner, but the bathroom floor was after I'd scrubbed it clean of used douche solution.

That night I asked DH if he noticed any difference during sex. He said no, but had a sudden craving for chips afterwards...

wine AF = Aunt Flo, your monthly 'visitor' [wink}

Thanks oops, now I understand. And at your husband's craving for chips!

I was trying to work out the same thing wine

Amber my dh does the same! Was stunned when I first met him and saw him run a bath

It really is refreshing Valiumredhead!

Have you ever tried?

No, I cherish my natural fanny juices and don't wish to upset them

From the Science Museum:

www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/I020/10284364.aspx

'Vaginal douches were a contraceptive measure involving the flushing of the woman's vagina after sexual intercourse.'

I imagine in less privileged parts of the world women still douche as a means of contraception in the absence of others.

Common insult in the US - 'You douchebag.'

oops at craving for chips.

at craving chips.

So is it malt vinegar or white vinegar they use for douche cleaner? I descale my kettle with white vinegar.

the chips thing is hilarious

OMG.

Why would anyone want to do that to themselves?.

I assume it's white vinegar - the douche itself is completely colourless.

Wasnt it also used as a very ineffective contraceptive?
(remembers scene from the forsyte saga with poor irene douching herself after soames did his business...)

Thrush alert.

I understand that people who have had surgery toan artifical vagina, i.e transgender operations need to douch becuase effectivley the 'vagina' is just a pocket of skin that gets sweaty and manky and therefore prone to infections. It has no natural method of cleansing itself like a natural vagina because it is just external skin and so it must be cleaned and lubrictated manually using a douche and the lubricant is in a little individual tube/pipette like frontline for cats and dogs!

I guess dettol would be suitable for this douching purpose?

God knows how I know this.... I am all woman!

Imagine how much vinegar would sting after sex!

your name would suggest otherwise ladyalex, but we believe you!

Ah yes... that doesn't look good does it! It is a play on my surname in RL and that fact that my in laws think i'm posh when actually i am not, they are just sceffy!

fgs be careful using a shower to douche anywhere. You could cause serious damage to yourself.