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Toxic Shock Syndrome develops when the common bacteria, Staphylococcus Aureus, produce a toxin which is absorbed into the bloodstream. The toxin rapidly overwhelms the immune system and attacks the major organs, leading to kidney failure, collapse of the lungs, and in severe cases, cardiac arrest. Alarmingly, half of all known cases of Toxic Shock are women using TAMPONS.

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TSS is real, it's common, and it kills 1 in 700 women will get tampon-related TSS. TSS can strike any woman or girl without warning and can act so rapidly that more fatalities among tampon users are inevitable.. TSS now occurs and affects primarily young, otherwise healthy women. Symptoms of TSSSore throatAching musclesHigh temperature; over 102 degrees FVomitingWatery diarrheaRed rashConfusionDizzinessVery low blood pressureOnly one or two symptoms may occur. They do not necessarily occur all at once and may not persist.Learn more This plz is not affiliated with you-are-loved.org; just sharing the very important information, and appreci
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Might I offer a website I am using to help talk about Menstrual Cups for any one questioning it.
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It doesn't stretch the vagina (pretty much similar to a tampon).
And for any of your watchers, TSS is caused mostly by bacteria on your hands or blood. If you do not wash your hands properly or your vagina. TSS is mostly caused by women who insert a tampon without washing their hands and they push the bacteria from their hands up into their vagina causing it to spread. It mostly presents with people who have had skin infections/rashes or viral diseases.
So the main thing is to wash your hands when inserting a tampon or cleaning your vagina.

Making another article about this since there are so many questions and confusions.
Love this page, and I hope, like my last article, you read my next one and find it just as helpful. :) Using these articles for my med courses as well.
I have never seen such a detailed how-to for the menstrual cup! I wish I'd seen this when I bought mine!

From what I've read, TSS is also caused by microscopic tears caused by insertion and removal of tampons. I knew that not washing your hands could cause infections, but I hadn't heard of it actually leading to TSS. :(
So I checked out that divacupplz site you recommended, gotta say, that device looks like a form of Medieval torture device designed to force prostitutes to confess to being soul sucking witches....
Regardless, it looks interesting but the site doesn't really answer questions, like side-effects.

Will prolonged use or just use in general of the menstrual cup result in stretching of the vagina? I don't think my husband would appreciate that... Tried to discuss it with him but he ran out of the room screaming as if he was on fire.

It sounds like a useful product, but if it's going to result in my "personal time" with my spouse being compared to a hot-dog trying to fornicate a hallway, I'm not sure it's worth the "convieniance" especially if it only holds 1 ounce. Not to mention it's rather expensive.

Btw, the website claims the average blood loss during a monthly cycle is only 1 ounce... showed that to my mother, a registered nurse for over 35 years. She laughed and called shinanagins.

Also, TSS is rare. I've slept with my tampon in accidently several times ( I get busy and I forget) and the only negative thing that happened was that the blood overflowed and leaked out, soaking thru my pad, underwear, my spandex shorts that hold the underwear and pad in place, my Pajama pants and stained the heck outta my bed sheets. Never had any symptoms of TSS, never known anyone that did, and neither has my mother or any of the nurses and doctors that she works with. Perhaps its only common in certain regions?