By day 7, she noticed an episode of black vaginal discharge followed two days later by yellow purulent discharge along with subjective fevers, at which point she stopped using the menstrual cup. Her subsequent menses became heavier and longer than normal. She used appropriate hygiene when handling and changing the cup, but retrospectively reported causing a small abrasion during one of her initial insertions. Ten days before her presentation, she began using The DivaCup (Diva International Inc, USA), a brand of menstrual cup for menstrual blood collection ( Figure 1). She had a history of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and chronic menorrhagia. A 37-year-old Caucasian woman presented to the emergency department with a two-day history of fevers, conjunctival hyperemia, abdominal cramps, myalgias, vaginal discharge and diffuse erythroderma prominent on her upper thorax, inner thighs and perineum.
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