Should I tell him he drank my mooncup water?

[mooncupbeverage]

I have namechanged for this. I've been pondering whether to tell him?

This morning I sterilised my mooncup (hasn't been sterilised since last period) in boiling water in a mug. Used the tongs to get it out and took it upstairs but in rush of getting DCs out of the door for school forgot to get rid of the boiling water and put the mug in the dishwasher.

DH has recently taken to drinking hot water plain - he alternates it with coffee as he says it makes his breath better.

He drank the mooncup water and was finishing the mug as he left for work.

There's no point in telling him is there?

[Eliza9917]

@onelostsoulswimminginafishbowl Tue 04-Dec-18 07:01:58
And the 'basic hygiene' person. Do you use sanitising tablets on your toothbrush? That goes into an orifice with a lot more bacteria than your vagina.

Yes actually. Our toothbrushes are currently upside down in some diluted milton. Have been for the last week or so and will be for another week. We've been really really ill and I don't want us to keep reinfecting ourselves.

[Eliza9917]

@QuackPorridgeBacon Mon 03-Dec-18 19:37:19
Why would (if I had one) the moon cup have blood on it? It would be washed or at least rinsed first

But its still not completely clean. There will still be particles, hence the need for sterilisation (which the manufacturers tell you to do). Therefore there would be blood particles all over the inside of your dishwasher and whatever you wash in there too. Same way poo particles fly all over your bathroom if you don't flush with the lid down. And then you'd feed people off of those plates & cutlery. Nice.

I absolutely cannot believe that people put their loo brush in the dishwasher.

[PoesyCherish]

@Shepherdspieisminging surely having unprotected sex with your partner is more of a HIV / hep risk than drinking microscopic particles of their blood??

[ILoveHumanity]

Eliza

I absolutely cannot believe that people put their loo brush in the dishwasher.

Does that actually happen , I honestly was just posing it as a hypothetical question ... that’s the most disgusting thing if it does....

[VisitorsEntrance]

Not disposing of blood properly is an HIV and hepatitis risk.
If a hospital washed bloody surgical instruments with mugs, what would you think?

Is period blood and normal blood different?
In my mind they are but I don't know about the biology.

[QuackPorridgeBacon]

Eliza9917 I do flush with my toilet seat down all the time and I don’t have a toilet brush but wouldn’t put it in the dishwasher anyway. But a washed mooncup? I honestly don’t see an issue. I’m honestly willing to listen though but I guess it’s never something I’ve thought about. I’m a thorough hand washer too. But if I was with soap and rinse or soak a moon cup, surely the steriliser isn’t a bad place for it to be extra cleaned. I also put my little ones toothbrush in the dishwasher lol I’m not crazy with it though but I do like that so much can be washed in it.

I also don’t have HIV so no worries there. Could someone explain more about blood particles from a washed mooncup? So after being washed in theory, three times, it will still have particles of blood? I also thought period blood is different. Given that it’s the lining of your uterus and not the kind of blood that flows through your body, although just typing that down I feel somewhat silly as the blood in the body would obviously supply the uterus, right?

[QuackPorridgeBacon]

Quack

Would you go to a restaurant who washes the mooncupa of their staff in the dishwasher ?

Do you think they would pass the hygiene standards of the food authorities ?

Fair point actually. But, in someone’s own home is different, surely? I want to add that I am not a dirty person and would sterilise a mooncup in a steriliser if I used one, and to somewhat justify that I’m clean, I did used to take care of a child at home with a tracheotomy and she never had any infections at the site or otherwise. I also haven’t caused her to become sick or anything so I’m fairly confident things are clean.

[TheOrigFV45]

VisitorsEntrance
Period blood is regular blood PLUS lining of the womb, and mucous and bacterial stuff from the vagina etc.

[BrendasUmbrella]

Why do long running threads always end up going crazy?

We can safely assume this would not be the first time this man had come into contact with something that has been in his wife's vagina.