Importance Of Menstrual Hygiene

Menstrual hygiene is a normal biological process and a key sign of reproductive health, yet in many countries and cultures, it is treated as something negative, a taboo, shameful or dirty. But the fact remains that most adolescent girls do not understand what menstruation is and they are never prepared for it. Based on the presentation and common knowledge about adolescent girl’s level of information and awareness, knowledge of sex education, menarche, menstruation and personal or menstrual hygiene; naturally the adolescent girls are victims of circumstance who have little or no knowledge of sex education or information and awareness about their sexuality and sexual bodies (the reproductive health organs early development) mostly in low and

The level of sex education, awareness and the flow of information from any sources remains a challenge because it is not adequate enough and it comes untimely to promoting menarche, menstrual hygiene and menstrual health among adolescent girls in low and middle income countries. Because of perception and misconception there is knowledge gap between the primary sources of information and adolescent girls needs for information, this affected the level of response, effective care and management. It has also led to wrong use of other materials such as Tissue, grass, mattress pads, reuse of cloth dry washed and hiding in wet places instead of under the sun all in the name of sanitary pads. According to the paper presented, analysis based on knowledge of menstruation, about 2.8% of rural girls in Rajasthan, India to 100% of urban girls in Turkey are aware before menarche, ¾ of Chinese girls identified uterus as the source of menstrual blood ranged from 2.5% in India to 82.9% in Uganda, while 6% of 150 Nepalese girls recognize menstruation as a physiological process but in Nigeria and India education had significant influence on menstrual