Talisi menstrual cups can be worn for up to 12 hours (in someone who loses about 30 to 60ml of blood in each cycle). After 12 hours, they should be emptied, rinsed and replaced. For people with heavier cycles, a more frequent emptying of the cup is required.

 

If you are considering switching from using sanitary pads or tampons to cups, it is important to note that when compared with sanitary pads and tampons, cups hold about five times more blood than pads and tampons. This estimate should help you calculate for how long your cups should be left in before emptying them.

 

What if you forget to take out your cup after 12 hours? If this happens, take it out as soon as you remember. Talisi menstrual cups do not encourage growth of bacteria the way tampons or sanitary pads do. However, changing them is still important.

 

Wondering how to know exactly when your cup needs to be emptied, before it starts leaking? It takes practice. While it might take person A 12 hours, person B may need to empty her cup every 6 hours. If you have ever used a sanitary pad or tampon and you had to change every two hours, it’s likely that you’d need to empty your cup every 8 - 10 hours.

 

If you have never used a sanitary pad or tampon before, meaning, this is your first time being on your period...firstly, congratulations! To understand how often you would need to empty your cups is quite easy. After four hours, take out the cup and see how much blood is in it, empty and replace it. If your cup isn’t half filled up after four hours, you can extend the next emptying to 8 hours. Do this until you have a good mastery of how long you would need to empty your cups on different days of your period.