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

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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.

I remember watching some show that showed a commercial for douching ( it was American) it was vvv funny!

This thread is hilarious!
Needed a good giggle.

um, not sure if this has already been said but douching doesn't necessarily mean a vaginal douche.

douche

still not sure why you'd want to douche any part of you with dettol mind you

i never even realised you put dettol on cuts and stuff. i thought it was for cleaning the toilet!

That's an interesting definition. So in theory you could douche your ear holes or nostrils. Or belly button. I think the bum hole's already been covered upthread.

yeah pretty much!

like i say, i'm not entirely sure why you would want to though

it's a bit like when I bought some Milton to clean the bath toys and found it had instructions for washing your fruit and veg on it

Wth?!
That Reminds me if of that episode of Friends when chandler nearly washes the cranberries with soap!

I wonder who these people are who sterilise vegetables!

the word douche makes me want to rip off my ears... horrible coy faux French word.

Must have been a crap contraceptive. Aren't the little swimmers pretty far up seconds after ejaculation? Unless you were super fast with the little hose thingy. Had it on standby by the bed how romantic

There was a woman on embarrasing illnesses who was addicted to anal douching with coffee!!

Douche means shower in French. That's what I always think of when I hear the word.

! Omgoodness! What like drinking coffee whilst douching? Or actually douching with nescafé? Holy poo.

On Boardwalk Empire (Set in 1920s America) a woman uses Lysol to douche after sex on the advice of a family planning leaflet.

oh i've heard of that, it's quite common apparently. gives you a bit of a buzz cos the caffeine gets into the bloodstream or something like that...

1928 Lysol Ad

Actually douching with coffee...

I saw that coffee woman Schrodinger! They did a helpful demo of her stretched across her bathroom floor, hose up bum , filling herself with instant coffee.

Of all the fun things in the world to get addicted to and she picks flooding her bum with Nescafé.

Yep, I remember that bit! Why anyone would go on television and sqoosh coffee up their arse I have no idea.

I'm reading a book at the moment where someone douches to cause a miscarriage and dies due to an air bubble getting into their bloodstream. Not with dettol though, with shampoo.

The phrase 'use a brush' has had me in stitches for about 20 mins, I am imagining a woman leg up on the bath furiously scrubbing her fanjo with a toothbrush.

Tears a falling out my eyeballs.

I'm laughing so hard about the chips and the bum douching that my bf asked me if I'm reading rude threads on mumsnet again.

when I was growing up lots of people used detol as bubble bath - way to mess up your normal skin flora!

Of all the fun things in the world to get addicted to and she picks flooding her bum with Nescafé

I'm just thinking how the hell did she come up with that? Was she sitting drinking a cup of coffee one day and thought:
"I wonder if this will taste just as good if I shove it up my arsehole?"
[confuse]

And she washed all the equipment in her dishwasher after it had been up her bum. The front of her dishwasher was all stained in brown liquid. I hope it was coffee and not liquid poo.

Eurgh. I wonder if she got paid to divulge her anal antics. Why on earth would anyone share that kind of information on national TV just for the hell of it? If I was her friend, I would NEVER eat at her house again.