I have really heavy menses ever since I had children. Before the kids came along, I had PCOS and would only get my menses 3-4 times in a year and even if my AF came, it was very light. During those pre-children days, I was dying to have regular AF every month coz if that happened, it would be a sign of balanced hormones and planning a pregnancy would be easy. But as fate had it, it was not easy for me…. at all! Long story cut short, my monthly AF now is very heavy in most months. It is so heavy that even wearing double extra long pads during night time would not contain the AF from seeping out.
The below picture is a common sight every month, on the second day of my AF, first thing in the morning. This morning was terrible. Though I had lined my bed with another piece of bedsheet, the blood seeped through my boxer pants, the extra bedsheet, the bedsheet and the mattress protector. When I felt something cold and wet on the bed at 6am, I jumped out of bed. Horror of all horrors! I quickly washed myself up first. Then sprayed Pre-Spot from Melaleuca on the blood on my boxer pants, ripped off all the sheets from my mattress and kept spraying Pre-Spot like a lunatic… then sprayed Sol-U-Guard on my mattress, washed the blood away briefly under running tap water and dumped all the stained sheets and clothes in the washing machine.
Half an hour later after the washing machine cycle….. I could not be happier when I checked all the soiled clothing and sheets. Not a tinge of blood stain was on my new boxer pants and the mattress protector. So happy!!!
By the way, Pre-Spot is very helpful in removing oil stains, curry stains and black dirt stains from my hubs’ shirts. He runs a food and beverage business and coming back with stains on his white shirts is very common. Thanks to Pre-Spot, his white shirts are still white!
Hydrogen peroxide also cleans blood really well….pathologists use it by the gallons to get rid of blood without disturbing gun resdue as water would (don’t ask how I know!). Hydrogen peroxide is also a great antiseptic for cleaning wounds and scrapes.
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