How Women cope with Menstruation Astronauts in space?
CALIFORNIA – have you ever wondered how women cope with menstruation when the astronauts were in space? If blood will still flow from the fallopian tubes though no gravity? More importantly, are they still would still be experiencing menstruation because the impact of being in a vacuum?
Imagine that women need a tampon with a strap that consolidate itself in so he doesn't hover. It is certainly going to be very embarrassing for the astronaut if he worked with "sauce" all up in the air. Or worse, female astronauts will not be able to function at all when it was experiencing menstruation.
According to National Geographic, female astronauts would experience the same with menstrual periods when they are on Earth, including the kramnya if they are accustomed to. This is a concern for NASA since it brought the tampon will certainly add to the weight of his own in the manned missions are women.
For that, rather than having a tampon, NASA engineers prefer to give the pill or contraception on women astronauts. In doing so, they will not experience menstruation altogether while in space.
The thing is, these drugs have side effects though not great. Most of the women also choose to keep experiencing menstruation each month to convince themselves that they are "normal" and "not pregnant".
"This is really a very safe to suppress the menstrual cycle," said gynecologist and Professor at King's College London Varsha Jain. These pills have side effects lead to blood clots in legs and lungs and be a concern but the study found no difference in health risks for women drinking pills continuously compared to take for three weeks at a time.
Meanwhile, the sewage system on the international space station U.S. that recycle water from the urine is not designed to deal with menstrual blood, according to Jain and Wotring.
It is said that a woman who spent over three years in space, for instance to go to Mars and back, as she will need as much as 1100 pills, which adds some weight to the mission, but lighter than all of their tampons. Up to this point, yet little-known aspects of the psychology of women that can be used to overcome this.
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