Menstrual Hygiene Management among Tharu Tribal women of Palia Block - Practices, Hygiene and their Impact

 Anthology : The Research ISSN: 2456–4397 RNI No.UPBIL/2016/68067 Vol-6* Issue-1* April-2021

Paper Submission: 03/04/2021, Date of Acceptance: 16/04/2021, Date of Publication: 25/04/2021








Bhagya Preet Kaur
 PDF Scholar, 
Dept. of Home Science, 
Lucknow University, 
Lucknow, UP, India
abstract
Hygiene is a concept related to cleanliness, health and medicine. It is as well related to personal and professional care practices. In medicine and everyday life hygiene practices are employed as preventative measures to reduce the incidence and spreading of disease. Menstrual hygiene is a sub- category of hygiene, an extremely important step for women. “Menstrual hygiene is the window of reproductive health”. Female cannot get good reproductive cum general health without healthy menstrual cycle. The Menstruation is a normal biological process in adolescent girls which indicating about beginning of reproductive life of girls, but sometimes due to lack of knowledge it becomes a problematic phenomenon in the Indian society for adolescent girls. In India the menstrual hygiene mostly depends upon the girl‟s educational status, socioeconomic status, and cultural status of family. However, the lack of adequate guidance and social support, maledominated decision making, on-going gender inequality and taboos around menstruation leave girls in numerous problem like experiencing shame, fear, confusion and discomfort. The achievement of good menstrual health has an impact on general health and wellbeing, education, socioeconomic outcomes, dignity and gender equality. The objective of this conceptual paper is to problematise the unhygienic menstrual practices among Tharu women

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