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  • Re: AKICIF: What Is Astronaut Sunita WIlliams Doing about Menstruation?

    From Lowell Gilbert@21:1/5 to Evelyn C. Leeper on Mon Sep 16 20:52:39 2024
    "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> writes:

    There are certainly articles about what astronauts in general do about menstruation:

    <https://elle.in/menstruate-space-sunita-williams/>

    <https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/women-handle-period-in-space-menstruation-astronauts-13787220.html>

    But the solutions assume a planned duration in space, since
    transporting a load of tampons and/or pills to the space station "just
    in case" seems unlikely. So what is happening now?

    I wouldn't think it would be an issue at her age.

    Keep in mind that she retired from the Navy after a 30-year career,
    all of it as an adult.

    Be well.

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 5 19:58:34 2024
    What you want is the NASA publication "Women's Health Isues in the Space Environment" from Richard T. Jennings in 1999.

    Also Steller and Blue's "Gynecological Considerations for Long Duration
    Space Flight" presented at the 2021 meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association.

    There were also some studies on female monkeys subjected to high acceleration back in the sixties which compared menstruating and non-menstruating
    conditions but I can't find the reference here. My office is moving and everything is kind of a mess.
    --scott

    --scott

    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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