A model that has lost a leg because of a tampon is preparing for a second amputation
'22.12.2017'
Source: The Daily Mail
29-year-old Lauren Vasser, an American model, was left without a right leg as a result of the toxic shock syndrome she experienced in 2012 after using a hygienic tampon, and is now preparing to remove the second limb, says The Daily Mail.
The condition began with symptoms resembling a cold or flu, and ended with a massive heart attack and gangrene. The girl was in intensive care on the verge of life and death. Gangrene struck both legs, one of them had to be amputated above the knee, the second one removed the fingers.
Now a model from Los Angeles, who did not despair and continued to go on the catwalk with a prosthesis all these years, wants to warn all women and young girls about the dangers of such a hygiene product. Wasser will also have to amputate his left leg, as the lesion of the limb, albeit slowly, continues. The girl recognizes this fact and has already resigned herself to it - according to her, nothing can be done. “But what I can do is warn others,” the model says.
In 1998, 24-year-old girl Robin Danielson died from using a tampon. Wasser defends the petition on behalf of this girl, requiring the US National Institutes of Health to conduct more extensive research on the risks associated with feminine hygiene products.
Lauren Wasser was 24 of the year when it all happened. She was found at home when her mother, who tried to call her daughter, raised the alarm. The girl lay face down in a pool of vomiting in her room. Doctors said she would have died in about 10 minutes. At the hospital, she started having a very hot fever and began to refuse organs, so the model was put into an artificial coma.
Toxic shock syndrome is confused with other diseases. The infection is usually caused by staphylococcus or streptococcus remaining on the skin, which enter the bloodstream and produce toxins. Symptoms include fever, low blood pressure, vomiting, seizures, and confusion. Every year he hits one of 100 000 women. More at risk are those who misuse tampons (change them less often than once in 8 hours, leave for the night), as well as newly born women or using barrier contraception, such as a diaphragm or ring.
