They are ten, children and adolescents, proudly holding a huge check. In the middle, Sandrine Graneau, dressed in her long floral dress, has a broad smile and foggy eyes. What a week for this 36 year old mom! Receiving this Wednesday 2,179 euros thanks to the young people of her commune of Montoir-de-Bretagne (Loire-Atlantique), who organized a collection for her, was already for her "an immense honor". But the icing on the cake, the testimony she delivered this Tuesday in Le Parisien-Today-in-France, aroused a flood of reactions and emotion which amazed the nurse. In our columns, Sandrine confided to have been amputated this summer of both feet and eighteen phalanges of the fingers of her hands, after having been victim of a toxic shock caused by her cup (a silicone cup to collect blood) menstrual .
"My story has been taken up all over the world, in Argentina, in Mexico, even in Australia", notes, a soft and posed voice that which aims to raise awareness of this syndrome, linked to cups and pads, which is very rare but whose consequences can be very serious. In Belgium, Maëlle, 17, died on January 9. Since Tuesday, Sandrine has received a myriad of emails and messages. Most benevolent, "if it was not a man who told me that I was a left-wing mental defect who took my cup for a sex toy," she reports, amused by such stupidity. In the flood, three really upset her, that of the husband of a victim of a toxic shock that occurred in August and two young women, victims too. “It's overwhelming and makes you want to fight even more. "
She will equip her car
A Cup manufacturer also wrote to him, assuring him that he would do everything to limit the risks. "Except that I looked at their instructions, they say we can wear it all night and even before menstruation, which is wrong," she chokes, while ANSES reminded us on Tuesday. that the maximum duration of the wearing of a tampon or cup should not exceed "between four and six hours".
The health safety authority also called on manufacturers to give women "clearer information". “This is also what I ask for, clear and clear information: an indication on the packaging of the time during which it can be worn. I am not a doctor, I cannot give advice, just say what can be useful so that it does not happen again. "
Sandrine, mother of three, created a Facebook association, Dans mes baskets, she who now wears prostheses and learns to walk again. What will she do with the check offered by young people? Equip your car to gradually resume driving. “When they meet me, autonomous at the wheel, they will know that it is thanks to them!
