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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 681432" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>The "item" Poise has come out with to prevent urinary leakage is called a "vaginal pessary", and it is a concept that was around a couple of thousand years BCE.</p><p></p><p>Usually they were made of sheepswool mixed with various medicaments to prevent infection and treat the incontinence. Some of the herbs used may have prevented vaginitis as some of the other ingredients used were rather...uh...crocodile dung, anyone?</p><p></p><p>The new pessaries are similar in design to the ones from ages ago, but made of more sanitary materials and do not require that prayers be said before or during application or removal, nor while wearing the pessary.</p><p></p><p>I've talked to a few people who tried them and really like them. They seem to work well for dribbles and leaks, but not for floods, so to speak.</p><p></p><p>My mother tried them, but due to excessive dryness and very arthritic hands, found them difficult to apply properly and uncomfortable to wear. Of course, she was never able to make the switch over to tampons, whereas I only used pads for my 1st period and switched after that to tampons.</p><p></p><p>I suspect, on the American market, the elderly women who could really benefit from these products may be too uncomfortable with sticking something "up there" to use them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 681432, member: 1963"] The "item" Poise has come out with to prevent urinary leakage is called a "vaginal pessary", and it is a concept that was around a couple of thousand years BCE. Usually they were made of sheepswool mixed with various medicaments to prevent infection and treat the incontinence. Some of the herbs used may have prevented vaginitis as some of the other ingredients used were rather...uh...crocodile dung, anyone? The new pessaries are similar in design to the ones from ages ago, but made of more sanitary materials and do not require that prayers be said before or during application or removal, nor while wearing the pessary. I've talked to a few people who tried them and really like them. They seem to work well for dribbles and leaks, but not for floods, so to speak. My mother tried them, but due to excessive dryness and very arthritic hands, found them difficult to apply properly and uncomfortable to wear. Of course, she was never able to make the switch over to tampons, whereas I only used pads for my 1st period and switched after that to tampons. I suspect, on the American market, the elderly women who could really benefit from these products may be too uncomfortable with sticking something "up there" to use them. [/QUOTE]
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