Health.com, April 10, 2019

The article is part of Health.com’s Is It Just Me? Series written by The Nervous Googler. UTMB’s Tonya Callender discusses Toxic Shock Syndrome and whether it’s okay to sleep with a tampon in. Callender told Health.com that “too long” is a lot longer than most people think. The longest you should leave a tampon in is about eight hours, she said. “There is no risk of sleeping with a tampon in,” Callender says.