Explain how to insert spermicide into the vagina |
1. Check the expiration date and avoid using spermicides past their expiration date.
2. Wash hands with mild soap and clean water, if possible.
3. Foam or cream: Shake cans of foam hard. Squeeze spermicide from the can or tube into a plastic applicator. Insert the applicator deep into the vagina, near the cervix, and push the plunger.
4. Tablets, suppositories, jellies: Insert the spermicide deep into the vagina, near the cervix, with an applicator or with fingers. Film: Fold film in half and insert with fingers that are dry (or else the film will stick to the fingers and not the cervix).
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Explain when to insert spermicide into the vagina |
- Foam or cream: Any time less than one hour before sex.
- Tablets, suppositories, jellies, film: Between 10 minutes and one hour before sex, depending on type.
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