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Should you wear pads or tampons during heavy menstrual flow? which is worse for hygiene?

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Neither: The best thing you can do for hygiene is to change your pad and/or tampon every time you go to the bathroom leaving anything soiled i or out of your body for a long period of time is not hygienic.

Answered 9/12/2017

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