Do you flush tampons?

[Anonymous]

OP - please ask this to be moved to either Home Improvement or Off-topic. This is NOT a beauty/fashion question.

[Anonymous]

I’m 50, and I could have sworn that back in the 80s the product instructions said to flush the tampons and only throw away the applicator and wrapper. I was shocked when I recently heard that flushing them was an issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don’t flush them, what do you wrap them in for disposal? I use tampons without applicators and would prefer not to add more plastic to the situation. But tissue seems insufficient and messy.

Just wrap it in toilet paper until nothing bleeds through. Trash bag is plastic so it’s contained there, and trash can has a lid so smell isn’t an issue.

Wouldn’t your pets eat it??

If given the opportunity, one dog will. I just keep the door to the bathroom closed and empty the trash when necessary.

[Anonymous]

Always wrap in toilet paper and throw in trash when at home or in a public restroom with a receptacle for that in the stall.

Unless I'm a guest at someone's house. Then I flush... twice. Can't leave my bloody tampon in their power room trash.

Dogs that eat them are at risk of an obstruction.

[Anonymous]

Have always flushed. Never caused a problem in the 100+ year old house I grew up in nor in the even older the even older one I live in now (knock on wood).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Always wrap in toilet paper and throw in trash when at home or in a public restroom with a receptacle for that in the stall.

Unless I'm a guest at someone's house. Then I flush... twice. Can't leave my bloody tampon in their power room trash.

Dogs that eat them are at risk of an obstruction.

You’re awful

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don’t flush them, what do you wrap them in for disposal? I use tampons without applicators and would prefer not to add more plastic to the situation. But tissue seems insufficient and messy.

Just wrap it in toilet paper until nothing bleeds through. Trash bag is plastic so it’s contained there, and trash can has a lid so smell isn’t an issue.

Wouldn’t your pets eat it??

If given the opportunity, one dog will. I just keep the door to the bathroom closed and empty the trash when necessary.

I have Simple Human trash cans with a lid and my dog is just not that determined to mess with things to try to open it. Dog is a puppy and messes with things out in the open so trash without a lid would maybe be a problem, but lacks that determination (intelligence? ha) to try and open a can to fish something out.

[Anonymous]

No. You’re lucky you è never had a clog.

[Anonymous]

Omg! No! If you haven’t had a clog now, you were lucky but if you continue, you’ll probably have this issue down the road. This also clogs the sewers like the “flushable wipes”. That are not really flushable. There have been several sewer burst in the news lately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Always wrap in toilet paper and throw in trash when at home or in a public restroom with a receptacle for that in the stall.

Unless I'm a guest at someone's house. Then I flush... twice. Can't leave my bloody tampon in their power room trash.

Dogs that eat them are at risk of an obstruction.

You’re awful

How so? Less chance of a clog. Also I am not putting their pet at risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Always wrap in toilet paper and throw in trash when at home or in a public restroom with a receptacle for that in the stall.

Unless I'm a guest at someone's house. Then I flush... twice. Can't leave my bloody tampon in their power room trash.

Dogs that eat them are at risk of an obstruction.

You’re awful

+1

What a selfish idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Always wrap in toilet paper and throw in trash when at home or in a public restroom with a receptacle for that in the stall.

Unless I'm a guest at someone's house. Then I flush... twice. Can't leave my bloody tampon in their power room trash.

Dogs that eat them are at risk of an obstruction.

You’re awful

How so? Less chance of a clog. Also I am not putting their pet at risk.

I would be livid if I found out a guest was flushing their tampons at my house. Do you know how expensive it is to fix the inevitable plumbing issue that will arise? Flushing twice doesn’t do anything to mitigate this risk BTW

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have always flushed. Never caused a problem in the 100+ year old house I grew up in nor in the even older the even older one I live in now (knock on wood).

You are just lucky. Stupid to flush.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Omg. Someone find the long thread we just had on this. Please.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/979800.page

But we do this constantly.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/867543.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/709813.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/538393.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/131636.page

Stop flushing anything but the three Ps: pee, poop, and paper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m 50, and I could have sworn that back in the 80s the product instructions said to flush the tampons and only throw away the applicator and wrapper. I was shocked when I recently heard that flushing them was an issue.

Yes! This is new to me, but then I’m over the menses anyway!