Tips to Educate Children About Menstruation Before a Child Experiences It - LADYLIKELILY

Teaching children to challenge health is very important, especially during a pandemic like today. Children who are aware of health early on, not only make themselves exposed to the risk of disease. But it also provides benefits to the surrounding environment including us, his parents.

Based on UNICEF research in 2020, in Indonesia 1 in 4 children never receive information about menstruation before menarke. This information is certainly a warning for us, parents to be more intense in properly educating our daughters. Especially mothers.

Fortunately, the author followed a very good event on Thursday, May 27, 2021 via zoom about Healthy and Clean during Menstruation with a kecebis speaker. This science became a very important provision for me as a housewife in teaching my 3 little daughters Najla, Halwa and Miska later when I was already growing up.

The sharing session was started by dr. Dwi Oktavia, TLH, M.Epid as Head of Disease Prevention and Control of Prov Health Office. Jakarta. She initially conveyed the fact that 1 in 5 girls do not know that menstruation is a sign that their physical condition can already get pregnant (SDKI, 2017).

The next session was Prof. Dr. dr. Dwiana Ocviyanti, SpOG(K), MPH from the Indonesian Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (POGI). He discussed a lot about how to maintain menstrual hygiene, namely by washing pads before being thrown away, put them in a new plastic bag thrown in the trash. Change pads after once every 4 hours, wash your hands after removing the pads and bathe 2 times a day.

Furthermore, the most exciting session is when Anna Surti Ariani, S.Psi., M.Si., a psychologist who shares tips on motherhood in talking about menstruation to her child. The role of mothers to educate girls about healthy and clean during menstruation is very important, because many problems occur such as as if it is difficult to talk related to the area of womanhood. What is the effect of talking to a child who is still not menstruating, and how to speak.

Most of us consider this taboo yes, there are also reasoned lack of knowledge, there are also those who are confused about where to start and there are concerns that the child will not believe our talk. In fact, based on research 90% of girls trust parents and teachers as a source of information (DITPSD, 2017). Well loh!

Negative effects if we as mothers do not teach him, it will give birth to negative emotions in children such as anxiety, shame or anger. Our beautiful children become unprepared to face mens, or worse they become misunderstood when facing mens. A teenager's misconception about menstruation can be fatal.

So start talking properly, then the reproductive health of the little one will be better, can prevent premarital sex, reduce the risk of sex health and bring the child's psychological relationship closer to parents.  Stories with girls, who are again curious and step on adulthood, will be fun if done well and right.

Some of the effects if we do not maintain the health of the feminine area because of the wrong use of pads and cleansers is the appearance of mold. Fungi can cause other itch and infections. How to clean must be from front to back. In addition, the more dangerous effect is the risk of cervical cancer, even though this can be prevented by treating vaginal keseahtan well, although slightly replace pads with new ones. Don't be careful, because it's for the sake of health.

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