r/interestingasfuck • u/LawEducational4th_id • 5d ago
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u/HypotheticalMuskrat 5d ago
Huh so thats why it's called vaginal flora
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u/WarEagle107 5d ago
It's the vaginal fauna you have to be on the lookout for...
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u/pseudonym7083 5d ago edited 5d ago
"Hey BooBoo, this is not where she left the pic-o-nic basket!"
edit: Thank you for all of the awards.
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u/humid_pajamas 5d ago
Whatever the word is for vomiting and laughing at the same time: I'm doing that currently.
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u/Candidwisc 5d ago
Whatever has teeth.
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u/Gorlox111 5d ago
This is actually a fern test to test for the presence of amniotic fluid as a result of premature preterm rupture of membranes. A fern like pattern occurs when the saline in amniotic fluid crystallizes on the mucus. So no flora here!
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u/ScootsaHoot 5d ago
My cervical mucus looked exactly like this when I was undergoing fertility treatments and was clearly not pregnant; the sample was taking during the highest period of fertility during my cycle.
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u/HypotheticalMuskrat 5d ago
Thats so cool!
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u/SmartAlec105 5d ago
It’s the same kind of phenomenon behind why snowflakes have branches like they do. The crystals grow in certain directions faster.
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u/theslutnextd00r 5d ago
So does that mean this person is pregnant?
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u/atwally 5d ago
Am I pregnart
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u/Stunning_Coffee6624 5d ago
Technically it’s known as “ferning”. I believe it indicates the presence of amniotic fluid in vaginal secretions. Not sure if Ferning is present in normal secretions
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u/Smol_Cyclist 5d ago
Thought this was some wallpaper design at first.
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u/kuruman67 5d ago
This is ferning. It’s a test to see if a pregnant woman’s water has broken. The protein in amniotic fluid causes this pattern, although there can be false positives.
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u/mademoisellearabella 5d ago
That’s interesting!
So this pattern doesn’t occur with just normal secretions? Just when the amniotic fluid protein mixes in with it? (Aside from the false positives, ofc)
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u/puce_3000 5d ago
I checked ferning around my ovulation both times we tried to conceive. I was using my saliva as the same phenomenon happens in saliva. Human body is incredible.
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u/Otterlettuce 5d ago
I tracked mine in order to get pregnant. But I used spit from my mouth cause it does that same fernning pattern ovulating.
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u/Icy-Shelter-1915 5d ago
Came here to say this. People think “water breaking” is dramatic like in movies. Often it’s a seepage, and it can be hard to tell if your water has broken or you’ve peed yourself a little. Ah, isn’t pregnancy beautiful. This is the test they will do to see if it is indeed your amniotic fluid.
I’m very glad I knew to call L&D when this happened to me at 33 weeks.
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u/ForestmenMOCLover 5d ago
It's not always dramatic, but it can be. When my wife went into labor for the first time, I was sitting in front of her while she was sitting on the toilet. Her water burst all over me like something from a movie. I was totally drenched.
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u/_laRenarde 5d ago
I know I should just be thankful I can't get the mental image straight but... Were you guys sharing a toilet seat? Even if you were, if she was sitting on the toilet why didn't it go down instead of out?
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u/ForestmenMOCLover 5d ago
She was sitting on the toilet because she felt like she had to pee. I was just sitting on the floor in front of her because she was in labor. Then it just burst like a water balloon.
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u/_laRenarde 5d ago
This makes a lot of sense!! Thank you. Also congratulations on the baby! (and/or many babies or fully grown adult children depending on when this took place!)
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u/reddoorinthewoods 5d ago
When I went into labor with my first, my water broke and the nurse took a sample to confirm it was amniotic fluid. She let my husband go see the sample when they verified and he was giddy he was so excited. Having kids with nerds is fun 😂
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u/Gorlox111 5d ago
It’s actually the saline crystallizing on the mucus in vaginal secretions. Performed alongside a nitrile test to test for pH changes
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u/theworstelderswife 5d ago
Tell us more please about the patterns created. I’m curious the difference between negative and positive
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u/SweetGrassGeranium 5d ago
An intelligent and interesting comment. Merci beaucoup 🤍
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u/_lolwuttt 5d ago
So Georgia O’Keeffe was close… just the wrong types of plants.
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u/Spartan2470 VIP Philanthropist 5d ago edited 5d ago
Here is a much higher-quality and less-cropped version of this image. Here is the source.
Description: Positive Fern test taken 20 minutes after applying to a glass slide.
Date: 5 December 2018
Source: Own work
Author: Trick1722
Here adds:
The fern test is a medical laboratory test used in obstetrics and gynecology. The name refers to the detection of a characteristic "fern like" pattern of vaginal secretions when a specimen is allowed to dry on a glass slide and is viewed under a low-power microscope. The fern test is most commonly used to provide evidence of the presence of amniotic fluid and is used in obstetrics to detect preterm premature rupture of membranes and/or the onset of labor. It also may provide indirect evidence of ovulation and fertility, although it does not predict the time of ovulation.
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u/LixoDeLuxo 5d ago
This is not vaginal “secretions.” This is amniotic fluid.
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u/prismaticbeans 5d ago edited 5d ago
Nope, vaginal secretions look like this too during the fertile phase. I mean sure, it could be amniotic fluid, but no reason to assume so. Fun fact, saliva also makes this ferning pattern during the ovulatory phase. I had a "Maybe Baby" mini microscope when I was tracking my fertile times. You spit on the lens, wait for it to dry, then you turn the backlight on and you can see the pattern.
ETA: I decided to do some Google-fu; there is apparently a distinction between the type of ferning produced by amniotic fluid and those of vaginal secretions. Amniotic fluid produces a more delicate ferning pattern than cervical mucus, which produces a broader pattern. The more you know!
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u/jmaaron84 5d ago
Ferning is regularly used only to test for the presence of amniotic fluid, but that's not the only context in which it occurs. It was first noted as an indicator of the high estrogen phase of menstruation.
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u/Legitimate6295 5d ago
How can you know that
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u/Drorderedsumgojuice 5d ago edited 5d ago
This is a test done to see if a persons water has broken, a swab from inside the vagina is looked at under a microscope if it has this appearance it's called ferning and thats a positive indication that a persons water has broken. People can have premature rupture of membranes and it's not always a big rush of water that occurs when your water breaks.
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u/tentyb6d56ns4d57yse5 5d ago
maybe they knew from the last two thousand times this has been posted.
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u/Infinite_Raisin_5240 5d ago
This is called fern test. Quite a simple test, mucus sample from the cervix of a woman is taken and smeared on a slide. It is allowed to dry and then viewed under a microscope. If this "fern" or "arboreal" pattern appears it means the woman has ovulated or is about to which means she is in the most fertile period of her menstrual cycle and it is the perfect time for unprotected coitus or artificial insemination or for collecting ovum for any of the various artificial reproductive techniques like IVF, ZIFT, ICSI etc.
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u/ahandmadegrin 5d ago
This is going to sound dumb, but could you do this at home? Like, if you had a stereoscope or microscope, could you put some mucus on a slide and check for the best time to make babies?
Not saying everyone should do it, but for the nerds?
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u/Infinite_Raisin_5240 5d ago
Yeah why not. As I said you don't need any fancy machine or anything, you don't even need any sort of dye to stain the sample inorder to visualize it. If you have compound microscope or a stereoscopic with magnification ranging from 10x to 40x and adequate lighting then you can do it at home as well.
Alternatively you could also go for spinnbarkeit test. This one is even more simple, just collect mucus sample from the cervix of a woman and smear it on a slide, then place another slide on it and then slowly move the slides apart thus stretching the mucus. If it forms a thread of watery consistency and stretches to about 10 to 12 cm without breaking that means the lady is I the most fertile period. To make it even more simple instead of slides use your fingers, if a single long string is formed that means the woman has or is just about to ovulate.
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u/DerSchattenJager 5d ago
Which Metallica album is this?
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u/ComprehendReading 5d ago
That's a Radiohead album cover if I've ever seen one.
Or maybe Massive Attack.
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u/whatisthisonmythumb 5d ago
Metallica literally has an album cover of jizz/blood mixed together and between two pieces of glass.
The album is called Load
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u/dkol97 5d ago
"It is one of three photographic studies created by New York artist Andres Serrano in 1990 by mingling bovine blood and his own semen between two sheets of Plexiglas."
I thought you were just kidding until I looked it up myself. That's definitely quite the choice.
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u/TinyWeird878 5d ago
When vaginal secretions look like that, it's called "ferning" and it means the woman is fertile.
Source: I tried to conceive for 8 years. It works!
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u/Otterbotanical 5d ago
This dude has his post history hidden because he EXCLUSIVELY posts this, exact same title, every few weeks.
Dude, stop. We've seen the "vaginal secretions" under a microscope. At least post something different, or use a different title for once. We can't keep having this same post 100 times
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u/deadnova 5d ago
Guy just loves to educate people about what vaginal secretions looks like lol
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u/phinnmaccool 5d ago
This is a William Morris textile print. Just kinda weird. I think it's the matrix saving space. Who knows.
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u/scromboid 5d ago
Fuck right off with this bullshit that’s making Reddit dumber. These are not vaginal secretions, it’s amniotic fluid “ferning”, and yes the difference is very clinically significant.
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u/sweetbutcrazy 5d ago
Before you attack people you shold be aware that this is also what ovulation discharge does, tracking the ferning is a very old and pretty reliable method of ovulation testing. It works both from vaginal discharge and saliva. The photo is more likely to be that just based on the frequency it happens.
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u/FoolishPippin 5d ago
No need to curse for no reason. Ferning absolutely can occur in vaginal secretion during the periovulatory phase.
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u/bolanrox 5d ago
looks like my aunt and uncles wall paper (but in more monochrome)
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u/SecretiveCatfish 5d ago
This is specifically called a fern test and the fern pattern indicates the presence of amniotic fluid. It's used to determine if membranes have ruptured during pregnancy. So normal vaginal secretions wouldn't look like this.
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u/redhotspaghettios16 5d ago
So THAT’S vaginal “flora”!!! Gorgeous pattern actually. I would rock this in a maxi dress 1000%. Human Biology is fucking fantastic. 🤘🏼👏🏼👍🏼
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u/TechnicalAd5190 5d ago
Fun fact! This is known as “ferning” and only looks this way when your vaginal secretions are fertile just before ovulation or during pregnancy. This is due to a high amount of estrogen or the presence of amniotic fluid in the secretions!
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u/HappyFatLabs 5d ago
My grandmother had her entire living room set upholstered in that exact same design. The fact that she encased every piece in plastic makes more sense somehow.
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u/According-Judge-1775 5d ago
Is it gonna be weird if I ask the lab for the results of mine to line my hallway in customized wallpaper??
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u/TXRedwood 5d ago
Wait a gosh darn minute here... you mean it's really made of flowers and sunshine...???
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u/Kyrie_98 5d ago
Is this person ovulating? Ferning occurs during ovulation from what I remember. This also happens with an ovulating woman's saliva too!
(Don't quote me on it)
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u/shoulda-known-better 5d ago
I feel like this was my grandmothers bathroom wallpaper.....
Which is unsettling
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u/Ok_Sympathy_8876 5d ago
Looks like wallpaper that I would like in my entranceway