How This Woman is Educating Others After Losing Her Daughter to Toxic Shock Syndrome

In 2017, 19-year-old Maddy Massabni died from Toxic Shock Syndrome, or TSS, most commonly related to tampon use. “The pain and the sadness and torture of her not being here is completely overwhelming and it hurts, I truly couldn’t believe it, how that could happen so quickly,” her mother, Dawn Massabni, told InsideEdition.com. Toxic Shock Syndrome almost cost another teen, Riley Whitten, her life.