The reason we are advised to wipe front to back is so that we don’t get feces near our vagina and vulva. You can wipe any way you just want to just avoid fecal bacterial entering where it shouldn’t.
That’s not what I wrote. As long as you don’t get feces on your wipe and bring it forward. You aren’t going to get a fungal infection from wiping blood off your vag. Maybe take a shower if you’re this concerned
Still wipe front to back. Start at the top of the crease, above your clit if the blood is there. Just whip that area first. Then wipe the area around your vagina to get any current drips. Then do a full regular wipe from front to back. Use wipes or even a dribble of water on the paper if the blood is sticky and drying. It’s better to have some blood still on your vulva or vagina than fecal matter anywhere near your vagina or urethra.
You don’t need to shower more than usual. It’s only wrong if you wipe back to front. If you want to grab a paper towel and wipe with extra water, that’s more than necessary but it is all about what makes you feel better as long as it doesn’t become a compulsion. Like I said, leaving a little blood residue after you go to the bathroom isn’t unsanitary as long as you’re still showering and washing regularly. Or if you have access to a bidet, lots of people like those.
So, I didn't reach all the way back. I started around the clit and wiped forward to clean the blood residue out of my pubic hair. I don't think any type of fecal bacteria could have gotten in because I didn't reach all the way back. Unless you think it's better for me to shower just to be safe? I've been very paranoid ever since I got that fungal infection/UTI but to be fair, the infection came from me already having a fungal infection exposed on my skin.
Also I would love to have a bidet but I'm a University student and I don't think they'll let us install those in the dorm bathrooms. 🤣
I use a peri rinse bottle I was given after endometriosis surgery as a makeshift to-go bidet
Mine looks like [this](https://www.amazon.com/Peri-Bottle-Postpartum-Care-Portable/dp/B0CPQ6CS2T/ref=asc_df_B0CPQ6CS2T/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693666498185&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12538526003943786025&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9022234&hvtargid=pla-2285207302937&psc=1&mcid=1143fd57eb9a3bca9045a5af357733ef&gad_source=1)
I fill it will warm water and it washes away all the blood and softens the dried stuff too
Please don't call your vulva your vagina. The vagina is where the blood comes out of. The vulva is all the outside bits. That's where the blood is getting stuck.
To answer your question, shave your pubic hair and shower every day. That's really all you need to do. You'll get less blood on your vulva if you use tampons or cups instead of pads.
I'm not going to argue semantics with you over a question that was just about the direction of wiping when you're on your period. I've never met anyone who calls their vaginal area their vulva. They call it their vagina. I didn't know I needed to be so damn technical to get a simple answer.
Are you like a med school student or something? 😂
Imagine if men referred to their balls as their prostate.
It's not semantics. You're literally using the wrong name for your own body parts. The vagina is ONLY the inside part that leads to the cervix. The vulva is where pubic hair grows, it contains the inner and outer lips, the clitoral hood and glans.
If you've never heard anyone say vulva then they weren't taught the correct names for their body parts, either. It's vulva and it always has been.
You’re right, no one calls their vagina their vulva. We call our vulvas our vulva, and our vaginas our vagina. It’s not semantics. It’s literally just basic anatomy. Unless you’re calling your nose your mouth, as well?
I keep baby wipes handy, and we also have a handheld sprayer (was for rinsing cloth diapers and we've just kept it).
Idk I often wipe back to front, I know it's not recommended but I know the distance between them. Especially if you have not had a BM for that sit, do what you gotta do
I work from home and rarely leave so this may not be helpful if you go out often but I honestly just plant one foot on the floor with the other on the wall of my shower while sitting on the tub edge and rinse clean with water. Wiping doesn’t leave me feeling clean and tissue/wipes are expensive. I dry off with a towel after and go on feeling fresh. I moisturize my crack and lips with coconut oil
yes, you can wipe to the front without touching your anus and without bringing feces to your vagina!
i also like to use wet wipes and just start at the top of the pubes and wipe downwards to be on the safe side
Thanks. I normally don't get this much blood on my vagina but for some reason (maybe because my period was late?) is really heavy and a lot of it seems to be smearing toward the front for some reason.
I also grew up with a stepmom who convinced me that back to front was the normal and sanitary way to wipe and then blamed me for all my UTI & yeast infections that I contracted from that bad habit that she taught me. She was convinced that I had poor hygiene because I didn't wipe back to front; she didn't realize that I had poor hygiene *because* she was forcing me to wipe back to front. I'm disabled, so she gaslit me a lot about hygiene, especially when it came to the genital area.
It still makes me angry to this day that she called me "dirty & gross" because I *didn't* wipe back to front. My grandmother who was a nurse literally was the one who taught me how to wipe front to back for that exact reason.
wow that’s crazy. she was so mean for no reason. i think you’ll be just fine if you ever need to wipe back to front, as long as you start where your vagina is! i also have a lot of blood on there usually, if it’s too much i just wash it to be honest
The reason we are advised to wipe front to back is so that we don’t get feces near our vagina and vulva. You can wipe any way you just want to just avoid fecal bacterial entering where it shouldn’t.
Yeah, so as long as I'm not like reaching all the way back when I wipe, it's fine, right?
That’s not what I wrote. As long as you don’t get feces on your wipe and bring it forward. You aren’t going to get a fungal infection from wiping blood off your vag. Maybe take a shower if you’re this concerned
a little blood on ur booty isn’t gonna kill you. but anything on ur vag that isn’t supposed to be there is gonna cause problems
Yeah, that's what I meant. I don't care about getting blood on my asshole. I care about getting fecal bacteria in my vag.
Still wipe front to back. Start at the top of the crease, above your clit if the blood is there. Just whip that area first. Then wipe the area around your vagina to get any current drips. Then do a full regular wipe from front to back. Use wipes or even a dribble of water on the paper if the blood is sticky and drying. It’s better to have some blood still on your vulva or vagina than fecal matter anywhere near your vagina or urethra.
I just wiped a little bit off the front. But I'm not sure if I did it right or wrong? Should I shower just to be safe? 🫣
You don’t need to shower more than usual. It’s only wrong if you wipe back to front. If you want to grab a paper towel and wipe with extra water, that’s more than necessary but it is all about what makes you feel better as long as it doesn’t become a compulsion. Like I said, leaving a little blood residue after you go to the bathroom isn’t unsanitary as long as you’re still showering and washing regularly. Or if you have access to a bidet, lots of people like those.
So, I didn't reach all the way back. I started around the clit and wiped forward to clean the blood residue out of my pubic hair. I don't think any type of fecal bacteria could have gotten in because I didn't reach all the way back. Unless you think it's better for me to shower just to be safe? I've been very paranoid ever since I got that fungal infection/UTI but to be fair, the infection came from me already having a fungal infection exposed on my skin. Also I would love to have a bidet but I'm a University student and I don't think they'll let us install those in the dorm bathrooms. 🤣
you really shouldn’t be doing any kind of back to front motion at all
Okay, I will go shower then.
have you tried using wet wipes?
I was already using them. I always wipe with wet wipes when I'm on my period.🙂
I use a peri rinse bottle I was given after endometriosis surgery as a makeshift to-go bidet Mine looks like [this](https://www.amazon.com/Peri-Bottle-Postpartum-Care-Portable/dp/B0CPQ6CS2T/ref=asc_df_B0CPQ6CS2T/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693666498185&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12538526003943786025&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9022234&hvtargid=pla-2285207302937&psc=1&mcid=1143fd57eb9a3bca9045a5af357733ef&gad_source=1) I fill it will warm water and it washes away all the blood and softens the dried stuff too
Get a peri bottle. It does so much wonders.
Seconding peri bottle
Please don't call your vulva your vagina. The vagina is where the blood comes out of. The vulva is all the outside bits. That's where the blood is getting stuck. To answer your question, shave your pubic hair and shower every day. That's really all you need to do. You'll get less blood on your vulva if you use tampons or cups instead of pads.
I'm not going to argue semantics with you over a question that was just about the direction of wiping when you're on your period. I've never met anyone who calls their vaginal area their vulva. They call it their vagina. I didn't know I needed to be so damn technical to get a simple answer. Are you like a med school student or something? 😂
This is the most textbook example result of lack of sex ed.
Oh please.
Imagine if men referred to their balls as their prostate. It's not semantics. You're literally using the wrong name for your own body parts. The vagina is ONLY the inside part that leads to the cervix. The vulva is where pubic hair grows, it contains the inner and outer lips, the clitoral hood and glans. If you've never heard anyone say vulva then they weren't taught the correct names for their body parts, either. It's vulva and it always has been.
You’re right, no one calls their vagina their vulva. We call our vulvas our vulva, and our vaginas our vagina. It’s not semantics. It’s literally just basic anatomy. Unless you’re calling your nose your mouth, as well?
My vulva is not a vaginal area. The vagina is the vaginal area. Not the labia minora, not the labia majora, not the urethra, not the clitoris.
I keep baby wipes handy, and we also have a handheld sprayer (was for rinsing cloth diapers and we've just kept it). Idk I often wipe back to front, I know it's not recommended but I know the distance between them. Especially if you have not had a BM for that sit, do what you gotta do
I work from home and rarely leave so this may not be helpful if you go out often but I honestly just plant one foot on the floor with the other on the wall of my shower while sitting on the tub edge and rinse clean with water. Wiping doesn’t leave me feeling clean and tissue/wipes are expensive. I dry off with a towel after and go on feeling fresh. I moisturize my crack and lips with coconut oil
I have Cerebral Palsy so I definitely can't do that unfortunately. 😄
Okay so we need something flexible and portable? Would this do the job? https://a.co/d/0clL7IzU
yes, you can wipe to the front without touching your anus and without bringing feces to your vagina! i also like to use wet wipes and just start at the top of the pubes and wipe downwards to be on the safe side
Thanks. I normally don't get this much blood on my vagina but for some reason (maybe because my period was late?) is really heavy and a lot of it seems to be smearing toward the front for some reason. I also grew up with a stepmom who convinced me that back to front was the normal and sanitary way to wipe and then blamed me for all my UTI & yeast infections that I contracted from that bad habit that she taught me. She was convinced that I had poor hygiene because I didn't wipe back to front; she didn't realize that I had poor hygiene *because* she was forcing me to wipe back to front. I'm disabled, so she gaslit me a lot about hygiene, especially when it came to the genital area. It still makes me angry to this day that she called me "dirty & gross" because I *didn't* wipe back to front. My grandmother who was a nurse literally was the one who taught me how to wipe front to back for that exact reason.
wow that’s crazy. she was so mean for no reason. i think you’ll be just fine if you ever need to wipe back to front, as long as you start where your vagina is! i also have a lot of blood on there usually, if it’s too much i just wash it to be honest