I totally disagree with this article. It says "The Keeper...sits intravaginally to occlude menstrual discharge" Occlude means block. The keeper does not BLOCK your blood. It collects it: hence the name "keeper". The principle they are explaining about blocked blood cells migrating back into the uterus seems like it would only work with something like a plug that worked like a cork in a wine bottle that blocked blood from leaving your cervix for an extended period of time. Most people change their keeper often enough that it never really fills up totally, so I don't see how the blood flow back up enough to go back through the cervix into the uterus. If anything a tampon works more like a plug than a keeper. The keeper can be thought of essential like a hollow tampon (that is non-absorbent).
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Date: 2003-10-03 09:31 pm (UTC)It says "The Keeper...sits intravaginally to occlude menstrual discharge"
Occlude means block.
The keeper does not BLOCK your blood. It collects it: hence the name "keeper".
The principle they are explaining about blocked blood cells migrating back into the uterus seems like it would only work with something like a plug that worked like a cork in a wine bottle that blocked blood from leaving your cervix for an extended period of time.
Most people change their keeper often enough that it never really fills up totally, so I don't see how the blood flow back up enough to go back through the cervix into the uterus. If anything a tampon works more like a plug than a keeper. The keeper can be thought of essential like a hollow tampon (that is non-absorbent).
I don't buy it.
My 2 cents.