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EDICa advisory board member Jackie Maybin at U of Edinburgh is one of several researchers featured in this article on the lack of and dire need for more research on menstrual health. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

'It's not just an inconvenience': We've underestimated the health impacts of heavy periodsAs women have fewer children and more periods, heavy menstrual bleeding is becoming more of a health burden.www.bbc.com
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Laura Vivanco

Re this: "there's no standardised or metric conversion for the practical ways of measuring bleeding" - it's pretty easy to measure volume of liquid collected in a menstrual cup (and even a menstrual disc, depending on removal method).

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EDI Caucus

Yes, that is one of the advantages of the disc/cup, but many don’t or can’t wear them, including severa in the EDICa team. We’ve also seen in our own data an ick factor over menstrual blood more than normal blood which prevents take up of menstrual cup/disc.

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EDI Caucus

Also, as we’ve interviewed a number of women who do work in the field, including Ellie Honan in our seminar who collected snow petrel poop in the arctic, who described the limitations of the cup/disc due to needing clean hands.

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Laura Vivanco

Yes, but that would presumably apply to tampons too, unless an applicator's used. But I was just thinking about collecting data on volume of blood among a sample of people in less challenging conditions.

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EDI Caucus

Yes. There are researchers looking into this. Dr Encarna Micó-Amigo who works on sensors at Herriot- Watt, our host institution, has talked about this. Don’t recall details unfortunately.