[SiliconeKids] Toxic Shock Syndrome and implants

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Glad to see this posted. I know while implanted with McGhan/3M silicone gel breast implants I had experienced TSS twice. The second time I was put in the hospital. Women (of all ages) need to be more informed about TSS and breast implant exposure because they don't think Toxic Shock Syndrome could happen to them...well it may happen to them too when exposed to breast implants!TSS is NOT fun & can make you very, VERY sick. I also recall from my experience with toxic shock that I had a rash (on my thigh/legs) that was like a sunburn. It was a painful rash too.But I had not been in the sun to obtain the rash that was presenting like a sunburn. I vomited so much I simply wanted to die...lost about 15 pounds in several days. I was treated with doses of IV antibiotics...thank goodness I neverexperienced what

this poor girl went through with having to have her limbs removed. I was told my toxic shock was caught early. This type of harm (with breast implant exposure and TSS) could all be prevented IF someone (the medical community as a whole, FDA too,industry and plastic surgeons) were MORE FORTHCOMING aboutall breast implants....it is past time to uphold one's oath of First,do NO harm concerning all breast implants and they all need to NOW tell the truth of what the devices are really capable of doing to the human body. What suffering this young person did below did NOT have to happen...so why is NOT the medical community learning fromthis medical mistake below? How many more must suffer to note thatbreast implants and toxic shock syndrome IS A REAL PROBLEM? CFMRogene S <saxony01@...> wrote: Here it is, in black and white....pathogens have theability to traverse the elastomer shell of implants! Date: Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:34 am Subject: Toxic Shock Syndrome and implantsCase Report Toxic Shock Syndrome as a Complic­ation ofBreast Prostheses Ann. Plast. Surg. Vol. 96, No. 71706 1995 Patient, Age 21-Year-Old Female 1994 History s/p bilateral augmentation mammaplasty, Presenting Symptoms On POD 6, vomiting, weakness,fever, ras­h PROSTHESIS TYPE SALINE Outcome Bilateraltransmetacarpal amputations, bilateral bel­ow-kneeamputations. (She improved after the removal of herlegs and­ part of her hands) [Tell her how safe Salineimplants are] It goes on to say In­ 1988, Nordstrom etal. mentioned a case of Serratia marcescens infectionof a t­issue expander (saline type of implant)

usedfor postmastectomy breast reco­nstruction. As in ourpatient, bacteria were cultured from both theperiprosth­etic fluid and the SALINE WITHIN THEIMPLANT. The exact relationship between ba­cteriainoculation within or about an implant and the originof the infection r­emains a mystery. The ability of bacteria to traverse the membraneelastomer a­ppears to hold the key to understandingthis pathologic process. The permeabili­ty of silicone(saline) implants to substances or organisms occurs bymeans­ of two proposed mechanisms. Either a substancecan diffuse directly though t­he membrane elastomer(as with ether, lidocaine, iodine, steroids, andc­ertain antibiotics) or it must leak though holes inthe membrane or fill ports.

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