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.

Tbh I think it's Nescafé calling ....

Ew that's put me off coffee. Please don't tell me there's such a thing as a chocolate enema...

I have heard of people having wine enemas but not chocolate.

Argh wince! Am finding my pelvic floor muscles working well in response to 'brushing', owwwww!

Went to bathroom, read dettol bottle & mine says it too!!!

@Valiumreadhead. I put it in my bathwater only! No douching involved.

applying toothpaste allegedly dries the vagina providing friction during sex. wouldn't know, but that's what they say.

anyway, back to dettol. i love the smell. i used to put some in the bath - as recommended on the bottle in those days (thirty years ago). i got heavy handed with the 'splash of dettol' and caused myself a great deal of trouble, becoming subject to infection after infection until i realised i was killing off all my body's natural defences. dettol is great for kitchen surfaces but keep it off your parts!

My first child is 26, it was still recomended then, to have a bottle of dettol in for post delivery care.

I can remember the marketing for it saying that it was suitable for 'all of a new mum's needs' and keeping both mum and baby well.

I have literally almost PMSL at quite a lot of this thread - although to be fair, I'm 24wks pg, so the pelvic floor isn't quite what it should be, but still, its so funny!!

Of course, friction/infections/douching in general are not laughing matters, it surely makes it all a bit messy...

Toothpaste? I'm currently using the Colgate ice cold tube with those little square particles in the paste. Nice.