Are you allergic to your own semen?
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Are you allergic to your own semen?
Can You Really Be Allergic to Your Own Semen?
By Meredith Melnick – Thu Jan 20, 1:50 pm ET
The bad news? If you exhibit flu-like symptoms immediately after ejaculation, it's possible you may be allergic to your own semen, according to a recent article by Reuters. The good news? Doctors may be able to lessen your symptoms, though treatment could take three years.
According to the report by Reuters correspondent Kate Kelland, post orgasmic illness syndrome (POIS) has been documented in scientific papers since 2002, but remains unknown by many family doctors. Men with POIS develop fever, runny nose, eye irritation and severe fatigue immediately following ejaculation, with symptoms lasting up to a week.
"They didn't feel ill when they masturbated without ejaculating, but as soon as the semen came from the testes...after that they became ill, sometimes within just a few minutes," Marcel Waldinger, a professor of sexual psychopharmacology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, who recently published two studies on the condition in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, told Reuters.
In one study, 33 Dutch men who were diagnosed with POIS were given a skin-prick test with a diluted form of their own semen - a standard allergy test. Of those, 29 had a positive response, suggesting allergy.
The second study, conducted on just two patients, was an opportunity for Waldinger to try a standard allergy treatment called hyposensitization therapy. Over the course of a few years, the patients were injected with solutions that contained increasingly higher concentrations of their own semen. At follow-up exams one and three years later, both patients reported reduced POIS symptoms.
Waldinger and his team are now trying hyposensitization therapy on other POIS patients, Reuters reports
By Meredith Melnick – Thu Jan 20, 1:50 pm ET
The bad news? If you exhibit flu-like symptoms immediately after ejaculation, it's possible you may be allergic to your own semen, according to a recent article by Reuters. The good news? Doctors may be able to lessen your symptoms, though treatment could take three years.
According to the report by Reuters correspondent Kate Kelland, post orgasmic illness syndrome (POIS) has been documented in scientific papers since 2002, but remains unknown by many family doctors. Men with POIS develop fever, runny nose, eye irritation and severe fatigue immediately following ejaculation, with symptoms lasting up to a week.
"They didn't feel ill when they masturbated without ejaculating, but as soon as the semen came from the testes...after that they became ill, sometimes within just a few minutes," Marcel Waldinger, a professor of sexual psychopharmacology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, who recently published two studies on the condition in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, told Reuters.
In one study, 33 Dutch men who were diagnosed with POIS were given a skin-prick test with a diluted form of their own semen - a standard allergy test. Of those, 29 had a positive response, suggesting allergy.
The second study, conducted on just two patients, was an opportunity for Waldinger to try a standard allergy treatment called hyposensitization therapy. Over the course of a few years, the patients were injected with solutions that contained increasingly higher concentrations of their own semen. At follow-up exams one and three years later, both patients reported reduced POIS symptoms.
Waldinger and his team are now trying hyposensitization therapy on other POIS patients, Reuters reports
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I hate to admit this on a public forum, but I sneeze uncontrollably after sex for about 10 sneezes. I wonder if it's something like that. I've told my wife I must be allergic to her, but maybe it's myself I'm allergic to.
On a positive note I no longer have to cuddle!!
I've noticed a sore throat afterwards as well, but I put it down to.....well, here's a recording
http://tinyurl.com/4vsfldw
On a positive note I no longer have to cuddle!!
I've noticed a sore throat afterwards as well, but I put it down to.....well, here's a recording
http://tinyurl.com/4vsfldw
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Originally Posted by Wildncrazy,Jan 29 2011, 09:52 AM
I hate to admit this on a public forum, but I sneeze uncontrollably after sex for about 10 sneezes. I wonder if it's something like that. I've told my wife I must be allergic to her, but maybe it's myself I'm allergic to.
On a positive note I no longer have to cuddle!!
I've noticed a sore throat afterwards as well, but I put it down to.....well, here's a recording
http://tinyurl.com/4vsfldw
On a positive note I no longer have to cuddle!!
I've noticed a sore throat afterwards as well, but I put it down to.....well, here's a recording
http://tinyurl.com/4vsfldw
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