Follies of the Mad Men #142

What? No blue blood?

I remember back in the sixties and maybe the early seventies I was working nights and would eat my lunch at home with the kids. That was about the time they started putting personal hygiene ads on television. I found them disgusting, especially at lunch time, with my children watching with me.

But it seems that everything about any of the media genre's is about raising the bar or pushing the envelope. Now the only difference between hard core porn and some of the prime time shows is camera angle.

Where will it end; with all kinds of perversions and sex acts being portrayed in full living color and fine detail in our living rooms?

And you, Martel, have shown yourself to be a master of sarcasm. :lol:

she must smoke, that is usually what deepens the voice that way. Its the tampons themselves, not the applicators you have to worry about. Toxic shock syndrome comes from the use of the tampons.

@Patty

You are correct but it wasn't the ordinary every day tampons that caused the problem. One of the makers, I forget which, started using a new material that made theirs "super duper absorbent". Women started leaving them in for longer periods (pun not intended) of time and they went septic. In fact, as I remember it, the only cases of toxic shock syndrome were from the super duper absorbent kind. As the discharges being absorbed deteriorated and went septic the toxins being created entered the system and caused cases of anaphylactic shock, otherwise known as "toxic shock syndrome" or "TSS".

Here is a quote from this WEB PAGE

What is the link between TSS and tampon use?

The link is not clearly understood. However, tampon research shows that the risk of tampon-related TSS is associated with absorbency: the higher the absorbency the higher the risk; the lower the absorbency, the lower the risk. That is why a woman should always use the lowest absorbency tampon for her menstrual flow.

And another quote from this WEB PAGE

When using tampons, it’s important to choose the lowest absorbency necessary for your menstrual flow. And because the amount of flow varies from day to day, it’s likely that you will need to use different absorbencies on different days of your period. Selecting the right absorbency comes with experience but, as a guide, if a tampon absorbs as much as it can and has to be changed before four hours, then you may want to try a higher absorbency. On the other hand, if you remove a tampon and after 4 - 8 hours white fiber is still showing, you should choose a lower absorbency.

A tampon can be worn for a maximum of 8 hours. When using a tampon at night, choose the lowest absorbency needed, insert a fresh one just before going to bed and remove it as soon as you wake up in the morning. If you plan to sleep for more than eight hours, a pad should be worn instead.

The risk of tampon-related TSS may also be reduced by using pads as an alternative from time to time during a period.

Wow Yogi you seem to know more about periods than I do! 😜

Aren't periods those little bitty dots at the ends of sentences??? - LOL

Maybe it is because you are too young to remember when the problem first surfaced. I remember it well because when it first started happening it scared the crap out of my first wife. I don't know if she ever went back to tampons instead of pads.

I don't know how old you are but I am 46 till June 23rd. I didn't pay alot of attention to it at the time because I only rarely used them, just to swim if it fell that way. I know tmi.
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TSS from a carrot, I know there's a joke in there somewhere but I have gotten myself in enough trouble for one day! :lol:

@ScoutC

You are right but this particular entry was about TSS as it related to tampon use and when that started happening is when the term TSS first come into the public spotlight.

@Patty

I have children older than you. I will be 72 at the end of July.

TSS from a carrot, I know there's a joke in there somewhere but I have gotten myself in enough trouble for one day!

Was it an electric carrot, you know; battery powered? 😛

The Electric Carrot a vegan sex club!

The most common cause of bacteria related TSS is the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. But anaphylactic shock can also be caused by a severe allergic reaction to foods like peanuts and insect stings.