2023-06-21 17:00:00
Menstrual toxic shock (TSS) is a serious illness that can cause amputation – necrosis that can occur in the tissues of the extremities – or even death.
“Staphylococcal toxic shock is a serious acute disease that can occur during menstruation when using vaginal devices (tampons, menstrual cups) in patients who are often young, in good health and carriers of the bacterium S. aureus producing TSST- 1 at the vaginal level”, explains the civil hospices of Lyon; TSST-1, being the toxin responsible for TSS.
Not all carriers of the incriminated bacterium will have a toxic shock. Several factors are involved, knowing good practices helps to avoid it.
What are the best practices ?
Thus, according to ANSES, it is important to:
Do not keep your protection for more than 6 hours Wear only one protection at a time and only during your period Favor external protection such as sanitary towels or menstrual panties for the night
The health agency recalls that the risk of SCT is favored by the prolonged wearing of internal protection and/or the use of internal intimate protection with a stronger absorption capacity than necessary.
What actually happens? When you keep a tampon or a menstrual cup too long, the blood stagnates in the vagina, which favors the multiplication of the bacteria S. Aureus.
It then secretes the famous TSST-1 toxin which spreads through the body via the bloodstream.
What are the symptoms
First, the symptoms are non-specific: fever, headache, rash, diarrhea, vomiting. If the patient is not taken care of urgently, “the toxic shock can lead to organ failure, coma, or even death”, underlines Inserm.
According to Professor Gérard Lina, microbiologist specializing in this syndrome, quoted by the civil hospices of Lyon, “20 to 30% of women are carriers of staphylococcus aureus”.
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