Menstrual Hygiene, Management, and Waste Disposal: Practices and Challenges Faced by Girls/Women of Developing Countries.
Menstrual Hygiene, Management, and Waste Disposal: Practices and Challenges Faced by Girls/Women of Developing Countries.
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10.1155/2018/1730964
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发表时间：
2018
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Kaur R
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Kaur R;Kaur K;Kaur R
月经和月经实践仍然面临许多社会，文化和宗教限制，这是月经卫生管理道路上的一大障碍。在该国许多地区，特别是农村地区，女孩对月经没有准备和意识，因此她们在家庭、学校和工作场所面临许多困难和挑战。在回顾文献时，我们发现关于月经的知识很少，不准确或不完整是个人和月经卫生管理的一大障碍。女孩和妇女对月经期间由于不注意个人卫生而引起的生殖道感染知之甚少或一无所知。在农村地区，妇女得不到卫生用品，或者她们对卫生用品的种类和使用方法知之甚少，或者由于价格昂贵而买不起。因此，他们主要依靠可重复使用的布垫，他们清洗和再次使用。尽管在水和卫生领域取得了重大进展，但少女和妇女的需要和要求却被忽视。妇女在家里或外面处理月经的方式不同;在家里，她们将月经用品丢弃在家庭废物和公共厕所里，并在厕所里冲洗，而不知道窒息的后果。因此，应该有必要教育他们，使他们认识到与他们有关的环境污染和健康危害。采用焚烧等现代技术有助于减少废物。此外，应提高认识，强调使用可重复使用的卫生产品或由香蕉纤维、竹纤维、海绵、水葫芦等材料制成的天然卫生产品。
Menstruation and menstrual practices still face many social, cultural, and religious restrictions which are a big barrier in the path of menstrual hygiene management. In many parts of the country especially in rural areas girls are not prepared and aware about menstruation so they face many difficulties and challenges at home, schools, and work places. While reviewing literature, we found that little, inaccurate, or incomplete knowledge about menstruation is a great hindrance in the path of personal and menstrual hygiene management. Girls and women have very less or no knowledge about reproductive tract infections caused due to ignorance of personal hygiene during menstruation time. In rural areas, women do not have access to sanitary products or they know very little about the types and method of using them or are unable to afford such products due to high cost. So, they mostly rely on reusable cloth pads which they wash and use again. Needs and requirements of the adolescent girls and women are ignored despite the fact that there are major developments in the area of water and sanitation. Women manage menstruation differently when they are at home or outside; at homes, they dispose of menstrual products in domestic wastes and in public toilets and they flush them in the toilets without knowing the consequences of choking. So, there should be a need to educate and make them aware about the environmental pollution and health hazards associated with them. Implementation of modern techniques like incineration can help to reduce the waste. Also, awareness should be created to emphasize the use of reusable sanitary products or the natural sanitary products made from materials like banana fibre, bamboo fibre, sea sponges, water hyacinth, and so on.