You're using sanitary towels wrong! Social media goes wild for genius feminine hygiene hack

They're nan preferred feminine hygiene merchandise for women who person periods, studies show.

But according to a video shared connected societal media that has truthful acold amassed 20million views, women whitethorn beryllium making a captious flaw erstwhile securing a sanitary towel. 

The clip, posted  by personification by nan sanction of Hot woman teeh connected X, shows a female sticking nan merchandise to a brace of underwear utilizing an intriguing hack.

Instead of discarding nan insubstantial rectangle that keeps nan sticky 'wings' successful spot — arsenic is communal believe — nan female uses it to support nan towel securely attached to nan worldly of nan knickers. 

She does this by turning nan underwear upside down and placing nan insubstantial crossed nan gusset, earlier sticking nan wings to it, alternatively than directily connected to nan fabric.

This is said to debar nan wings sticking together and damaging nan underwear. 

Thousands of X users person commented connected nan clip, pinch galore claiming they've been 'doing it wrong' each their lives.

One female said:  'Wait what that’s really I was expected to put it on? And present I had to woody pinch it not sticking aliases nan wings sticking to my legs.'

It's estimated that astir 15million women successful nan UK are of menstrual age, pinch nan mostly of girls starting their periods astatine 12.5 years old.

According to Australian researcher Dr Lauren Rosewarne, astir 62 per cent of women usage sanitary towels erstwhile it's their clip of nan month, while 42 per cent usage tampons. 

 Dr Rosewarne, who lectures connected sexuality, gender, feminism and celebrated civilization astatine nan University of Melbourne, says location are galore reasons for nan penchant for sanitary towels complete tampons. 

She believes women are adverse to 'getting person to one's uterus lining', which explains why devices for illustration Mooncups 'haven't yet gone mainstream', she said.

Another logic tampon usage is debased is scaremongering astir toxic daze syndrome — a uncommon but life-threatening information caused by a bacterial infection. 

Writing successful The Conversation, Dr Rosewarne said: 'Dramatically overstated fears of TSS still spot immoderate women disinclined to usage tampons.

'While it’s a aesculapian malady easy avoided – by not treating a tampon arsenic a imperishable resident, for illustration – nan Death From Tampon spectre still haunts.

'An hold of this are vaguer tampons-make-you-sick fears.

'One type – popularised by nan fountain of each value municipality legends: nan world wide web – claims they’re chock-full of asbestos, frankincense making you bleed much truthful you request to bargain much tampons.'

In July, a squad of US researchers discovered that toxic metals could beryllium lurking successful tampons sold successful nan UK.

Tests, by scientists astatine various US universities, connected 30 products purchased successful New York, Athens and London recovered immoderate contained vulnerable levels of arsenic, chromium and moreover lead.

And each 16 metals tested were detected successful astatine slightest 1 tampon.

The experts said they were respective different ways nan metals could person sewage into nan tampons, including contamination at cotton plants utilized to manufacture tampons.

They tin besides beryllium perchance added during manufacturing processes arsenic whiteners, antibacterial agents, aliases done cross-contamination from different mill processes.

However, British experts said that nan results of nan study do not beryllium that nan metals tin leach into nan pussy and person harmful effects connected nan body. 

Professor Atholl Johnston, a professor emeritus of objective medicine science astatine Queen Mary, University of London, told MailOnline: 'Prior to analysis, nan tampons were trim up and past nan researchers added 2 mL of 67-70 per cent nitric acerb (HNO3) to each sample and pre-digested nan tampons astatine room somesthesia overnight earlier microwave-assisted acerb digestion.

'Hardly a akin situation to nan mean vagina.' 

He added: 'Were I a tampon utilizing woman, I wouldn’t panic astatine this stage. There is nary grounds that nan metals would leech into menstrual humor and beryllium absorbed into nan body.'