Reddit reviews Lunette Menstrual Cup - Clear - Reusable Model 1 Menstrual Cup for Light Flow
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Meet your vagina’s new best friend. Lunette Menstrual Cups will provide you with a safe, comfortable, odorless period for up to 12 hours.Lunette Menstrual Cups are a zero-waste alternative to tampons and pads, and can be used for up to two years.Our Model 1 Cup is made of soft, medical grade silicone, and is perfect for a light to normal flow.Easy to use and popular with teens, young users and those with an active lifestyle or sensitive bladder. All Lunette Menstrual Cups come with a storage pouch and step-by-step user guide.Made in Finland with the highest quality standards and love, all Lunette Menstrual Cups are chemical, latex and BPA-free.
I use the Lunette Cup and I'm happy with it, but the Diva Cup is more popular and a lot cheaper. They're both a little pricey, but they can last 10 years, so it ends up being way cheaper than buying disposable stuff in the long run! :D
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Your sister will most likely be embarrassed to say so if her period is heavier, which it often is in the first year of menstruation (~100-300mL/period), so get her BOTH pads [Always brand with the wings or period underwear, like THINX (the thicker pads don't stay closely enough to your body to be leak-proof)] AND tampons or a menstrual cup (lots of people love the lunette, size 1 for young people who've never used one before). Except for the thinx underwear, you can get all of these things on Amazon.
The most important feature of pads is that they stick close to your body, which is why thinx underwear is fantastic as back-up.
The most important part of internal menstrual fluid collection is that there are no spaces around the collecting tool, which is why menstrual cups or the tampons I linked are so fantastic at preventing leaks, which is the biggest period concern if you notice she's having trouble not leaking on her clothes or bed.
For pain: start with NSAIDs (e.g. Advil), because they are less dangerous (i.e. don't damage your liver, because they're not filtered by your liver), but make sure that she takes it with water, because if they get stuck in your throat they can ulcerate your esophagous, and then if her pain continues, she can take Acetomeniphen (e.g. Tylenol) at the same time, because it is filtered by the liver, which is what makes acetomeniphen more dangerous, so she should take it conservatively (i.e. less than the recommendation on the bottle, so 1 pill instead of 2).
Midol is just an NSAID with caffeine, which has no use unless she wants to get caffeine from a pill instead of coffee.
Also, if she wants to track her period (not necessary unless you're trying to predict fertility, or are just curious; PCOS and endometriosis have obvious symptoms like missed periods of very long mensturual cycles, and debilitatingly painful and heavy periods, respectively), she can use an app., like Clue.
And finally, toxic shock syndrome, associated with tampons, but can happen without tampons (i.e. it's a staph, or less commonly, a strep infection), is much rarer than it was (i.e. it's very rare), becaue the tampon material that often caused it was removed from tampons; but, the FDA recommends using less absorbant tamponts (i.e. not super absorpant tampons), changing tampons every 4-8 hours, and not using tampons if you've had a prior serious strep or staph infection (source)
TL,DR: Save your sister a shit ton of potential embarassment and stress and buy her DOUBLE collection tools (i.e. pads/period underwear AND tampons/menstrual cup); for pain, she should take advil and then and/or tylenol (which can be taken together (additional sources: 1; 2; 3)