If you use any kind of wipes you need to read this..

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If you are a MNetter who still flushes anything except pee, poo and toilet paper down the toilet... "All wet wipes sold as "flushable" in the UK have so far failed the water industry's disintegration tests, the BBC has found.Wet wipes will flush - in that they will disappear down the U-bend of your toilet. The problem is what happens to them next."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46188354

How did we manage before 1960, when the wet-wipe had not been invented yet?

I know how I managed in the eighties (someone gave me a pack of wet-wipes once, to keep the car and use if any child was sick, and we found them in one of the side-pockets when we sold the car eleven years later; they had gone dry) but I only had three children, all potty-trained by the time they were two and no longer needing nappies, and no incontinent older relations who needed nappies, so I don't know about how those problems were coped with in the 1950s when there were no disposable nappies and no wet-wipes.

So what did people do?

Don't forget that if you are using reusable microfibre cloths/wipes, they release thousands of plastic microfibres into the oceans when they are washed!!!!

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

When I trained as a nursery nurse, we used terry nappies with pins and top and tail bowls with cotton wool. That was how we 'managed'.
But the world has changed in many ways.

For the reasons posted about I don't have any microfibre in my house, I hate it. I just use J cloths or cut up old t shirts.

Are you for real? You expect people to have sanni bins in their houses?

Yes, I expect everyone to have them! Even men who live alone. It’s embarrassing for your guests to have to throw their waste into an unlidded bin for all to see, sorry. Not just pads and tampons but those who use incontinence pads would be appreciative.

No liner, no well you were the hypersensitive one. You could also just empty it once a week or so and give it a nice clean with soap and water if the environmental impact was too great for you.
My in-laws have unlined bins (not great imo) and you bet I was throwing my tampons, wet wipes, diapers and breast pads in there. I emptied it every couple of days into an outside bin and cleaned it out with soap and water.

It’s not just the environmental impact, it’s that you’ll cause problems for other people down the line. I guess if you don’t care, there’s nothing anyone can say to convince you otherwise. Out of sight out of mind eh?

“sabbatical and a very fair question - he hates the texture of flannels, trust me I have several. I also use wipes to get his bum clean when needed and clean him on the spot pre-meltdown.”

@OzzyMadBat what about large squares cut from old tshirts?

Back to wipes. Just don’t flush anything that isn’t human waste or loo roll. Even the ones that have been “proven” to disintegrate - just don’t. I’m amazed that people think it’s ok to flush sanitary products. I never have and I’ve been using them for decades. It was simply common sense.

I have no idea who all these incontinent people are who are suddenly visiting me and being upset by my bin arrangement. I don't live in a hospital.

If I knew anyone who had those issues I'd ask them what they needed.

I'm also not sure what you seem to think I "don't care" about or why my mind needs to be changed. I've already said I've bought an alternative product.

I'm just pointing how stupid and hyperbolic so many of the posts are.

I regularly flushed tampons down the loo in a rented house with a septic tank for 2 years. I don’t know what I thought was happening to them. When the guy came to clear it out it was very embarrassing to be told they were all still there (duh) and huge mass of them. I’m 54. A big selling plus for tampons as far I as was concerned was that they were all flushable - and I’m supposed to be intelligent.

VanGoghsDog I'm incontinent. I might be your friend, I don't know. You wouldn't know I'm in continent. I don't tell people unless they are very very close friends (my family don't know). It's embarrassing and I don't like talking about it. I wear pads and sometimes need to change several times a day. You wouldn't know as I would say I was using the loo instead. I'm in my 30s, I don't look disabled, I rarely use a disabled loo when out. I drive, wear normal clothes, work full time in a professional job, have a husband, a child, a nice house and I'm pregnant.

What I mean by this is you wouldn't know who "all these incontinent people are" because you won't be told. Why should I have to declare it to you? I expect most people to have bathroom bin I can dispose of things in, be it a tampon, a towel or an incontinence pad. When I go somewhere that doesn't, I tend not to go back.

I DO have fucking bin in the bathroom - can't people read? I never said I didn't, and in fact I specifically said I do. In both bathrooms.

I might be your friend, I don't know.....I'm in my 30s well, you're not then. I don't have any friends in their 30's so you can stop worrying about my bloody bathroom!

VanGoghsDog I didn't say anything about your bathroom bin. My point was that you don't necessarily know who is incontinent!

VanGoghsDog - it really isn’t sensible to take the NHS’ word on what is or isn’t treatable as gospel. There are all sorts of treatments available beyond the NHS.

Most people don’t have any choice but to rely on what the nhs will treat, unless you’re talkig about something you can buy in Holland and Barret. I’m amazed that people put used pads of any description in friends bathroom bins, mine would be wrapped in paper and put in my pocket or bag until I could reach an outside bin. There’s no privacy in using a bin just because it has a lid on it, unless you also have staff to empty it.

@Iggi999

Someone talking some sense. Exactly. You are I are MN outcasts though.

I don't mind if people put their wrapped sanitary protection or whatever in my bathroom bin, it's a bin after all, but I don't put mine in other people's bins. I wrap them and take them home.

Even if you have no financial resources to purchase healthcare beyond the NHS (or education beyond state schools), it’s sensible to acknowledge the existence of the myriad other opportunities out there.

mine would be wrapped in paper and put in my pocket or bag until I could reach an outside bin

I’d be horrified to think a friend or even casual visitor would be too uncomfortable to throw it in my bin! It’s properly lined and closed, surely you wouldn’t do this?! Wouldn’t the tampons and pads leak through the paper and get on your things? It’s unhygienic!

I'd be grossed out if someone put a period pad in my bin, I've got to empty it I don't want to see it, nor do I want to touch it or even think about it. We all bleed but it's a personal thing I don't want anyone bodily waste in my bin

Nah, I don’t use tampons but sanitary towels can be folder over and put in the wrapper the next one comes in. No leaks. I don’t actually put them in the bathroom bin in my own home come to think of it.
I’ll ignore user’s post as I’d be deleted if I answered it.

Sorry not that user the one before. You do know you can get a better username don’t you? Helps avoid confusion too!

I'd be grossed out if someone put a period pad in my bin, I've got to empty it I don't want to see it

You can’t be serious. Do you really expect guests to take their sanitary pads and tampons home with them?

@PineapplePower yes it's disgusting. I wouldn't leave mine in someone else's just like I wouldn't leave a pooey nappy wrapped in someone's bin?

VanGoghsDog yeah, you really shouldn’t act as if your fully qualified doctor knows what they’re talking about, a random on the internet has advised you of this. A random on the internet who doesn’t realise the NHS absolutely does offer treatment to relieve pain and discomfort and who also thinks braces and laser eye treatment is even vaguely comparable to your medical condition.

@Schuyler

Ikr? And someone on the Internet who can't even work out how to get a username!

Anyway, I manage the piles with diet (they get worse if I get constipated or the opposite, which I can't spell). But the issue re the wipes is the historic piles and fissures which have left things untidy and difficult to get clean with just dry loo roll.

The looroll gel stuff arrived anyway, so I'll try that for now.

If your post was aimed at me I have name changed to post on another thread this week,
Seems quite fitting to keep this one at the moment but don't mind me

Schuyler - a “fully qualified doctor” is not an omniscient being. All professionals work to a large extent within the confines of institutional parameters and that is particularly true of doctors working within the NHS.