Disposing of sanitary products when staying at someone else's home.

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Twice this has happened now.
Heavy period whilst staying with friends and relatives.
Tampons don't suit me so I use towels and for the first 24 hours my period is heavy.
Where are you supposed to dispose of them , the two families only have a kitchen bin , no other bins in the house.
Also they have a white sofa and the other has a light pink one , so I was concerned about leaking on the sofa.
I have had a scan , hysterscopy and they were not concerned about my periods, I don't have to change them every hour liked the doctor mentioned.
It's just awkward

Put them in the kitchen bin.

You can buy nappy sacks and/or fragranced bin liners.
I would put them in the bin liner and keep it in your room and then put in the main bin (or take home).

Regarding heavy periods - I would use period pants and a pad.
Just make sure you go to the toilet at least every 30mins.

If I have a very heavy period I will sometimes use 2 or 3 pads so they’re longer and 1 in the middle so it’s doubled up.
I tend to only need to change the top one but if worst comes to worst and it socks through then the next one will catch it.

Bloody periods.
It is not easy being female.

Wrap it in tissue and put it in the bathroom bin. This is what I do in public toilets as well

Did you read the OP? There is NO bathroom bin.

Blood doesn't stink, unlike shit and vomit.

Yes exactly!

I don’t stare into the bathroom bin! I just tie it up and toss it.

why would people put recycling stuff in their bathroom bin and then have to rifle through the bin to separate it out? Thats just stupid. You put recycling stuff in the recycling bin.

No one with any sense would put it all in one bin together so it’s mixed and then have to sift through every damn item to pull out recycling - that’s gross 🤮

Great suggestions from all,and I like the bed pad too. My daughter was always conscious of this and I had one for her.

It has reminded me of a childhood horror my brother and I experienced in our bathroom. My brother had noticed a bag on the very top shelf of the airing cupboard. Mum was busy washing and the old top loader was very noisy. We were excited it might have been a Christmas present. He dragged his tiny bedroom chair in and I precariously balanced on it and just managed to get the very edge of the bag ... and we got rained on by bloody ST's. My Mum put them in there before she burnt them. Such disappointment! I had to stand on his back to reach enough to put the bag back, argh, so disgusting.

If these are close friends and relatives that you stay with cant you just tell them this is an issue for you?

I do have a bathroom bin but rarely use pads and can understand why someone might not have thought about it for guests. But if a friend told me about this being an issue id be mortified and get one

This exact thing happened to a friend of mine except she discreetly chucked a filled disposables bag into a wood burner and his chimney caught on fire

My loo roll innards go in the bathroom bin. There's nothing gross in there - just me and DS at home. A few cotton pads and dental floss. Pick out the tubes and dump the rest. I'm washing my hands anyway if I dealing with bins.
I guess if I had menstruating women in the home I'd do it differently.

I would not feel comfortable having people empty a bathroom bin full of MY and only MY bloody towels - I would actually feel rude doing that for someone else to clear up!

I would put in a scented nappy bag, roll up and put in another then put in a packet of eaten crisps then in bin!
I know I am odd!

Period pants and a heavy duty towel. I put them in dog poo bags. It’s like this at my in laws. No bins anywhere. If you know them well enough you could ask. If not I’d ask for a plastic bag. Put them in there wrapped in loo roll and then dispose in public bin or in my car for later.
Have you been offered Tranexamic acid tablets? Ibuprofen and ginger extract capsules can also help reduce the bleeding levels somewhat.

I have something similar and don’t have a septic tank, I would never want anyone to feel so uncomfortable they were bagging and hiding soiled sanitary products. It’s madness in this day and age.

I take them home. I wouldn't want to put them in someone else's bin and wouldn't want to empty someone's else's sanitary pads either.

Add me to the ever growing list of people on here who don't put recycling in their bathroom bin. It goes straight in the recycling bin - I'm not rummaging through used tissues and dental floss to find loo rolls or paracetamol boxes.

How often are you there? Could you speak to them?
We don't have a bathroom bin as I don't use disposable sanitary products and empty loo rolls etc go into recycling
A friend pointed out to me that she didn't know what to do when she was here so I bought him and put it out when we have guests (bathroom too small to have it out all the time unnecessarily)

4 weekly bin collections where I am 🫣

I think it depends who you are staying with.

I wouldn't leave a sanitary towel in a bin if I didn't think was going to be emptied quite soon.

I certainly wouldn't want to see someone else's used blood covered sanitary towel thank you, the same way that I wouldn't want to see their shitty used toilet paper.
Yes periods are natural, but so are other bodily fluids, doesn't mean you want to see other people's.

When I had periods and was at someone else's I would wrap in disposal bags then a carrier bag and take home with me.

If you have very heavy periods the used sanitary towels definitely smell like a butcher's shop.

I wouldn’t expect a guest to put their used sanitary products in my kitchen or bathroom bin. Surely you would just put them in a nappy or dog bag and straight into the wheelie bin? Or take them home with you.

Why would you see it? Provide bags, line the bathroom bin. Open bin lid, knot liner tightly, dispose of it.

Maybe it's because I used to work in operating theatres, I dint know, but I really don't get the horror here. I'd rather empty a bathroom bin then pick a snotty tissue up off the floor.

Point friend in the direction of nappy sacks!!! Making you get a bin to put her used pads in is grim!!

3 P’s @suki1964

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If I stayed the full weekend at first when I was a bit more shy then I’d empty before I left to the outside bin, but if it’s just the odd one when visiting then no. I don’t see it as a big deal at all, but see I’m in the minority on this thread. More than happy to use anyone’s bathroom bin 🤣

You can’t see what is going on properly with scans and hysteroscopy - endometriosis causes very heavy bleeding and so does adenymyosis both of which need managing and progesterone tablets at a low dose manages endometriosis and a hysterectomy manages them both properly. I had my uterus removed just as my uterus was going nasty with the adenymyosis and got it all
out just in time. 5kg of endometriosis removed at the same time too - surgeon was amazed how much I had as it couldn’t be seen on scans etc