United States: two women hospitalized after trying to suck their periods with a vacuum cleaner

In the United States, two women, aged 19 and 23, tried to suck their blood with a vacuum cleaner to put an end to their rules earlier. A very bad idea since they had to be hospitalized! A nurse warns on Twitter: “Ladies…Please stop using your vacuum cleaner hose to end your period early,” she begins. “You’re going to end up sucking a lot more than blood!”

If this story can make you smile, it highlights a real danger. Vacuum cleaners, especially newer ones, are very powerful. “Your period has a constant flow that is what your body can tolerate. Aspiration increases that flow up to 1,000 times which can be shocking,” the Twitter user, who goes by the handle OdesseyT99, comments. .

Ladies… Please stop using your vacuum hose to end your period early. You’re gonna wind up sucking out a lot more than blood! There were 2 cases of this so far this week and both women had to be admitted. Just… STOP! ????????

– Twinny???????? (@odesseyT99) June 5, 2019

The return of menstrual extraction?

We don’t really know what prompted these two women to attempt to aspirate their period blood. But it might look like an attempted menstrual extraction. This practice was developed in 1971, before the Supreme Court granted women the right to decide for themselves to terminate a pregnancy. In other words, the right toabortion.

Feminist activists had then created a homemade suction device, which made it possible to carry out clandestine abortions home. To avoid any legal problem, they had preferred to present the tool as a means of aspirating menstrual blood so that the periods do not last.

Performing this practice today would be a very bad idea. “You could damage the surface of your vagina and risk bleeding or infection,” says Dr Shazia Malik, gynecologist at Portland Women’s and Children’s Hospital, London, in an interview with Vice. If you are fed up with your period, only one key word: patience.