Nurses experienced/practicing following restrictions during menstruation. They worked in schools as School Health Nurse in Kavre, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Chitwan, Nuwakot and belong with Newar, Bramin, Tamang.
- Silence
- Ignorance
- Shyness
- Not allowed to participate in ritual and social function.
- Not
allowed to enter in the kitchen, worship room, temple, and religious places.
- Restricted
to touch plants, fruits, vegetables.
- Not
allowed to touch senior citizens or any male.
- Have
to stay in neighbor house during menstruation or have to stay in separate room
in own house.
- Have to stay alone and eat alone.
- Mothers
are not allowed to breast feeding.
- Didn’t
get enough nutritious food and water.
- Are
not allowed to have dairy products and fruits.
- After the 4 days of menstruation, have to
purify our self with gold water and then we are allowed to do normal activities
as normal day.
- Have to use separate clothes and separate
blanket during menstruation.
- Are not allowed to touch tap and use toilet as
normal days.
- Are not allowed to do household works as
normal days.
- Are not allowed to discuss openly about menstruation.
Issues in schools related to menstrual discrimination
1.
Lack
of menstrual pad.
2.
Lack
of sanitation facilities
3.
Lack
of menstrual pad disposable facilities.
4.
Students
feel ashamed to ask for menstrual pad with teachers in school.
5.
Feeling
of shyness to talk about menstruation or ask for help during menstruation due
to lack of menstrual education.
6.
Lack
of gender oriented rest rooms.
7.
Lack
of waste management.
8.
Supply
of low quality of menstrual pad.
9.
Lack
of separated room to rest during menstruation if they feel uneasy during
menstruation.
10.
Lack of dignified menstruation friendly
environment.
11.
Use the same pad for a long time.
12.
Poor Personal hygiene.
13. Silence and ignorance
Problems face during menstruation
1. Back pain
2. Dysmenorrhea
3. Abdominal pain
4. Excessive Bleeding
5. Irregular menstruation
6. Headache
7. Unconsciousness
8. Tiredness, irritation.
Practices
seen related to menstruation in Kavre
1. Excessive Bleeding/Heavy bleeding.
2. Could not talk with parents about
menstruation openly.
3. Poor drinking water, poor sanitation
facilities.
4. Health issues like abdominal pain, epigastric
problems, fainting, back pain &headache.
5. Poor menstrual waste management
6. Gender based violence.
7. Ashamed to talk about menstruation.
8. High number of absence of female
students due to menstruation.
9. Lack of education on personal hygiene
maintenance, environmental sanitation.
10. Use the same menstrual pad for long
time.
11. Poor personal hygiene.
12. Continuously eating junk food.
13. Irregular menstruation.
14. Dysmenorrhea
Practices
seen in school of Chitwan related to menstruation
1. Menstrual discrimination
2. Discharge of white water.
3. Heavy bleeding
4. Poor personal hygiene
5. Use of same menstrual pad for long
time
6. Irregular menstruation
7. Problem in physical relation which
cause conflict with husband.
8. Menstrual infection
9. Unconsciousness, abdominal pain, back
pain.
10. Improper pad disposal
11. Ashamed to talk about menstruation.
12. Supply of low quality menstrual pads.
13. Dysmenorrhea
14. Lack of gender friendly toilets.
15. Students feel ashamed to ask for
menstrual pad.
Shree Krishnanagar high School , Chitwan
1. Hesitate to talk about menstruation.
2. Irregular menstruation due to
hormonal change.
3. There is belief that menstruation is
topic of females.
4. Lack of menstrual education
Shree Janjiwan High School Chitwan
1. Improper disposal of menstrual pad
2. Feel ashamed to ask for menstrual pad
3. Feel ashamed to discuss on
menstruation
4. Supply of low quality of menstrual
pads.
Menstrual
Discrimination in different culture
1. Not allowed to enter in kitchen &
prepare food (Dhading, Kavre, Chitwan, Nuwakot, Bhaktapur belong with Bhramins,
Chhetri, Ghale, Gurung ,Newar)
2. Not allowed to worship god & goddess.
Not allowed to enter the temple ( Dhading, Chitwan, Sunsari, Kavre, Lalitpur, Bharatpur,
Nuwakot belong with Newar, Chaudhary, Rai, Tamang , Ghale, Bhramins, Chhetri)
3. Not allowed to touch brother, father
or any male member of family (Dhading, Kavre, Chitwan belong with Bhramins, Chhetri,
)
4. Not allowed to do household works.
(Kavre, Dhading, Chitwan, Nuwakot, Bhaktapur)
belong with Bhramins, Chhetri,
5. Not allowed to participate in social
gathering or ritual activities. (Nuwakot, Kavre, Dhading, Chitwan belong with
Chapagai, Chhetri, Bhramins, Newar)
6. Purify after the 4 day of
menstruation with gold water (Nuwakot, Chitwan, Bhaktpur, Kavre, Dhading belong
with Tamang, Rai, Newar, Bhramins, Chhetri)
7. Use of separate clothes and blanket
during menstruation. (Kavre, Dhading, Chitwan, Nuwakot, Bhaktapur belong with
Newar, Tamang, Ghale, Bhramins, Chhetri)
8. Not allowed to sit together, eat
together (Kavre, Nuwakot, Dhading, Chitwan, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur, Sunsari belong
with Newar, Rai, Tamang, Ghale, Bhramins, Chhetri)
9. Not allowed to touch plants, fruits
(Dhading, Kavre, Nuwakot belong with Bhramins, Chhetri, Ghale, Tamang)
