Californian, tall, blonde, high-level basketball player and model: Lauren Wasser’s life looked like an American success story. Until that day in 2012 when the young woman left a birthday party after complaining of discomfort. After a day and a night of high fevers, she was finally hospitalized. Doctors diagnose toxic shock syndrome, a rare but very serious infectious disease that can lead to death. This syndrome is caused by a bacterial toxin (called TSST-1) that enters the bloodstream as a result of infection with a pathogen. Very quickly, the toxin reaches one or more organs.
In the case of Lauren Wasser, who comes from unveil his story at the US Vice site, the infection had spread, started to attack the heart, and turned into gangrene. The doctors then had no other choice, to save her, than to amputate part of her left foot and part of her right leg, below the knee.
The results of the analysis showed that the tampon she was wearing at the time of the events carried the TSS 1 toxin, the young woman and her mother decided to sue the Kimberley-Clark Corporation group, manufacturer of the brand of Kotex tampons. Not because these tampons are more “at risk” than the others, but because it was the brand used by the young woman who says that the warnings on the box are not clear enough.
Both also intend to bring this story to the US Congress in order to warn of the dangers of synthetic materials used in tampons and to force manufacturers to disclose the composition of their periodic protections.
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