Sepsis claims life of 19-yr old Air Force Academy track athlete

Thank you. Hordes of completely clueless people talking out of their arse on this thread.

Anything cytokine storm mediated is going to be more serious in "younger healthy patients." Being able to mount an excessively strong immune response is ultimately the cause of death.

To be fair, the Daily Mail did bury the lead. I don't know why. More clicks?

Advertising dollars from feminine hygiene products? Idk.

Sepsis is extremely serious in any patient. Seniors may be more susceptible to sepsis for various reasons but once you have it, no matter what your age...good luck.

Sad to feel these losses.

I've read some interesting research on sepsis and hypomagnesia.

It’s not accurate to say toxic shock syndrome is from using a tampon! That term is broader and there can be many risk factors/causes, tampons are just one. even with that bacterium it doesn’t necessarily mean that’s where it’s from. Did it say something in either article about this or elsewhere that I missed?

To be fair, she could be using another type of feminine hygiene product, like a menstrual cup (either way, one of the factors for developing TSS is not changing it often enough), or possibly birth control like a diaphragm, or sponge.

Per mayo clinic,

To DECREASE THE RISK of developing TSS, women should always try to use the least absorbency tampon, and change it frequently.

As a woman myself (and athlete), I always was kind of paranoid of developing TSS since I had a high school classmate who developed it, had to go the hospital, and then the whole school was talking about it. It was embarrassing at that age for her (even though it shouldn't have been). But as a 16-year-old, those things would be embarrassing.

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For the rest of my life, I've never used more than a regular-sized tampon: I don't use Super, Super-Plus, Ultra. or whatever they're called. Even though it's a pain! If you only use regular-sized tampons, you have to change them more frequently, but I don't want to develop TSS!

Would a healthy 19-year-old have gotten a cut and then developed TSS? Pffff, I highly doubt it. They would have stated that it in the article.

I mean, we are speculating here. I could've been from a diaphragm, or sponge. But chances of it being from a cut on a healthy 19-year-old woman? No.

The word is lede, dear. I have no idea why, but it is.

yeah, you did miss something. Per the article, it said the source was likely the vagina. Did you even read the article? It's like you made a comment, without even reading it the article first.

i am a liberal who thinks vaxes work. both toxic shock syndrome and sepsis are later stages or symptoms of you got something else. your body doesn't fend off a bacterial infection. you decay into toxic shock -- the bacteria produce toxins -- and/or sepsis as the bacteria continues to multiply. someone mentioned the elderly, well, they have weaker immune symptoms. so sometimes the infection just wins. and you metabolically slow down and get overwhelmed as opposed to speed up and overheat.

conversely, if you get fever, drainage, cough, etc. that's your immune system trying to work. your inflammatory response is happening. fluid is spreading. you are heating up. your T cells are killing cells. you just hope they do their work before you overheat, drown, or kill too many cells for your lungs or heart to work.

anti vax stuff is a nonspecific conspiracy theory that covers way too much. this thread is an implicit sepsis argument. or viremia for viruses. or it'll be too much inflammation. or it'll be cancer. they can't make up their mind what the negative process is. so it's all processes.

you die of anything the vax did it.

if you try to say it does everything it likely does nothing.

i get TSS + female can suggest something but some doctor who wasn't there is just speculating.

Exactly. 99.9999% of people alive today, rightfully, have no idea that "lede" is a word. Especially when "lead" in the context of news has a very clear meaning.

I hereby declare "lede" a dead word.

People that use the word "lede" are the same people that explain to me what there "fortay" ("forte" [pronounced fort]) is.

I’m happy to have learned this.. :)

*their

My dear, of course I pronounce "forte" with one syllable when I mean a strong point, and with two syllables when I mean loud(ly) or forceful(ly). Or, to borrow from the immortal George Carlin: "Her forte [one syllable] is playing the skin flute, and she plays it forte [two syllables]!"