Tampons Can Cause Toxic Shock Syndrome!

It’s better to be safe than sorry, so ladies, especially those under 20 whom this hits at the highest rates, please listen up! Tampon related/induced Toxic Shock Syndrome is very real. Several women in different places have had tampon fibers break inside them and causes Toxic Shock Syndrome. In the 1980s, 38 women were reported to have died from this and some specific tampon brands were pulled off the shelves.

More recently beautiful 20 year old Amy died from it, while bubbly Brittany almost died from it. When the situation begins it seems like normal flu symptoms, and can include fever, throwing up, going blind, can’t feel extremities like hands and feet, and dark rashes, all of which totally affects your body. Your vascular system can also collapse because it doesn’t have enough oxygen.

Many conventional tampons are made with viscose rayon with or without a cotton mix, which can produce toxins inside people if it stays in there too long because synthetic fibers aren’t for inside your body. However, some women are more susceptible to this than others because some leave them in longer than prescribed by the manufacturer.

Manufacturers say, if worn properly, and changed regularly; most people will be absolutely fine wearing tampons. Although it is rare, it still occurs, so don’t let it happen to you especially when there other perfectly better options you can use…

Personally, I’m not a fan of tampons, so I’ll share an experience I had in case someone else out there has this same problem. I recall one day I was at Costco and a lady asked for my opinion about keeping up with the really heavy flow during her time of the month. She was seriously considering getting some tampons to use in addition to the sanitary pads she was already using to keep up since even the most absorbent maxi pads only lasted minutes for her. I advised her that instead of using tampons in addition to pads, she should consider using small highly absorbent towels she can fold into the shape and size of a pad in addition to using the pad under and change as frequently as needed. She was skeptical when I shared this with her, but she tried it and later called me to say it worked like a charm.

Another issue is that some ladies can forget to remove tampons before sexual intercourse causing it to get lodged way up in there and it has to be brought out by various uncomfortable methods including bearing down like having a bowel movement to lower it into the vaginal canal within yanking reach or using a finger to sweep along the vaginal walls and fishing for the string or using fingers to grip for the string or if all of these

retrieval methods fail, visiting the emergency room and have a gynecologist do it is the last resort.

So, ladies, if you can, avoid using tampons. There are other options available to you.
A word is enough for the wise….