Treatment for men allergic to semen
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January 18, 2011, Tuesday
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A MYSTERIOUS syndrome in which men come down with a flu-like illness after an orgasm may be caused by an allergy to semen, Dutch scientists said yesterday.
Men with the condition, known as post orgasmic illness syndrome, documented in medical journals since 2002, get flu-like symptoms such as feverishness, runny nose, extreme fatigue and burning eyes immediately after they ejaculate. Symptoms can last for up to week.
Marcel Waldinger, a professor of sexual psychopharmacology at Utrecht University, published two studies which show that men with POIS have an allergy to their own semen.
For these studies, Waldinger and colleagues analyzed 45 Dutch men who were diagnosed with the illness.
"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," Waldinger said.
Thirty-three of them agreed to undergo a standard skin-prick allergy test using a diluted form of their own semen. Of those, 29, or 88 percent, had a positive skin reaction indicating an allergic reaction.
In a second study, Waldinger's team decided to try treating two of the volunteers with hyposensitization therapy - a well-known technique for treating allergies, which repeatedly exposes the body to small but gradually increasing amounts of the allergen over several years.
In the POIS therapy, the men were given skin injections containing their own semen, at first in a dilute form, and then in gradually less diluted forms. The study's results showed that after one and three years respectively, the men showed a reduction in their POIS symptoms.
Men with the condition, known as post orgasmic illness syndrome, documented in medical journals since 2002, get flu-like symptoms such as feverishness, runny nose, extreme fatigue and burning eyes immediately after they ejaculate. Symptoms can last for up to week.
Marcel Waldinger, a professor of sexual psychopharmacology at Utrecht University, published two studies which show that men with POIS have an allergy to their own semen.
For these studies, Waldinger and colleagues analyzed 45 Dutch men who were diagnosed with the illness.
"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," Waldinger said.
Thirty-three of them agreed to undergo a standard skin-prick allergy test using a diluted form of their own semen. Of those, 29, or 88 percent, had a positive skin reaction indicating an allergic reaction.
In a second study, Waldinger's team decided to try treating two of the volunteers with hyposensitization therapy - a well-known technique for treating allergies, which repeatedly exposes the body to small but gradually increasing amounts of the allergen over several years.
In the POIS therapy, the men were given skin injections containing their own semen, at first in a dilute form, and then in gradually less diluted forms. The study's results showed that after one and three years respectively, the men showed a reduction in their POIS symptoms.
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