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- If you're a tampon user, you'll use almost
twelve thousand in a lifetime.
Now that's a lot of cotton.
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Twat's Up Ladies, I'm Madge the Vag
and today, we're pulling out (pop) all the stops.
To find out what's up with your tampon.
Are ya super, are ya regular, are ya sporty?
- Maybe on the sporty side, super sporty.
- Just regular.
- Exuberant.
- (laughs) Exuberant tampon.
Mine would be the, you know,
the let's go out and have a drink tampon.
- Yeah, great, ours can hang out.
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- Dr. Bartalot, thanks for comin' in.
Now let's talk about tampons.
First question, what are they made of?
They look like cotton balls on a stick
or some cotton candy.
- Usually they're a mixture of both cotton and rayon.
There are some that are 100% cotton,
but most of them are a blend.
- And that's okay to put in there?
- So the rayon that they use now is not the same rayon
that they used back in like the 70's and 80's,
that was associated with higher risks
of dioxene contamination.
The dioxene was originally coming from the
bleaching process, using chlorinated bleach.
Now, with the FDA regulating tampons,
they're no longer using chlorine to bleach tampons.
It's more bleaching with hydrogen peroxide.
So you don't really have to worry about
dioxene poisoning from tampons anymore.
- So it's not so much about them getting bleached,
it's what's bleaching them.
- It's the by-products from using chlorinated bleach.
But even cotton gets bleached,
cause cotton isn't all perfectly white.
So even if you're using 100% cotton,
it's still gonna undergo a bleaching process.
It's just now, we're using non-chlorinated bleach,
so you're not getting additional dioxene
from the bleaching process.
- Could I get a non-bleached product?
- Not that I've seen.
- And why do we bleach them, just the look?
- Well, if you have a dark wood, and then you're
trying to see if there's blood or
how much blood is on there,
you're not going to be able to tell.
If it's gray, basically, the whole point is,
you want to see how much you're bleeding.
So white versus red is pretty contrasting in color.
- So I've heard there are organic ones.
Is that a thing, does it even matter?
- Cotton can be treated with certain pesticides.
An organic cotton is not treated with those same pesticides.
- Can you kinda do your research?
Like, are there ingredients on tampon boxes
to see if there's any real differences?
- It doesn't tell you the exact composition of the tampons.
It does tell you what it may contain on the side of the box.
But it doesn't tell you the percentage of each ingredient.
- So it's hard to know, really, what you're getting anyway.
- Right, the FDA does regulate it,
but it's not disclosed to the public.
- Ew, how about the scented tampons, that sounds nice.
- I know you know how I feel about scented products;
deodorants, sprays, they pretty much
all have the same effect on the vagina.
You don't know who's gonna respond to what,
and you're adding something that's
not natural, and it's scented.
It could possibly irritate the vagina,
whether the pad is scented, it might irritate the
outside of the vagina, the vulva area.
If it's a tampon, it could irritate
the mucosa of the vagina.
So, as long as you're cleaning your vagina as you should,
and you're changing your tampon every four to six hours,
it's not gonna smell bad so you don't need
to add an additional scent to it.
- True or false?
Tampons were used by medics in wars.
- False.
- That seems practical.
- True?
- True, to absorb blood.
- Penetration trauma,
penetration trauma, that's what they called it.
Say you get shot in the arm, tampon!
- Oh wait, really?
- Yeah, yeah.
Wow, that's a whole lot of information.
I'm Madge the Vag.
If you have any questions or comments, put 'em in my box.
My inbox, that is.
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