Toxic shock syndrome: otolaryngologic presentations.

Toxic shock syndrome is a recently discovered and widely publicized disease found to occur in young menstruating women and thought to be associated with the use of vaginal tampons. To this date, there has been no known report of a similar disease being caused by nasal or sinus packing. The following is a discussion of the toxic shock syndrome (TSS) and a presentation of two cases that demonstrated a striking similarity to that disease.