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Recently Xiaojiu background received such a private letter:
My girlfriend is a big talker! I've been dating her for 2 years, and I've expressed my want many times over those 2 years, but my girlfriend always refuses. Last night I expressed my needs again and she still refused, I asked for a reason and she stammered and refused to say. Finally when I pressed her, she said it was because she was allergic to semen that she wouldn't do it, and if she did do something like that, she would have a hard time breathing, and it would itch and swell there and on her face. That's why she was hesitant to have sex with me. When I heard this, my first thought was that she was lying to me, how can anyone be allergic to semen? Wanted to ask if this is true?
A. Can people really be allergic to semen?
It is true that people can be allergic to semen, and the incidence is higher in women. 1958, foreign scholars reported the first case of female semen allergy. More and more cases have been reported since then. The results of a survey involving 1,073 women showed that 12% of women had clinical manifestations of semen allergy. In the United States, an estimated 20,000-40,000 women suffer from semen allergy.
So why are women allergic to semen?
Semen contains dozens of specific antigens from sperm and seminal plasma, and most women are not allergic to these components. However, some women are allergic and will react to the inhibitory substances within the male semen. When they come into contact with the sperm, their bodies will release IgE molecules that will combine with the antigenic substances within the semen, and then they will have an antigenic reaction (mainly to the protein components in the seminal plasma), resulting in an allergy.
The symptoms of semen allergy in women may appear during or within a day of exposure to semen, and may be characterized by vulvar/vaginal itching, burning, swelling and pain, and in some severe cases, angioedema, dyspnea, asthma, and generalized urticaria.
Second, women allergic to semen can still get pregnant?
Chen Shuqin, director of gynecology at the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, said the best way to prevent semen allergy is to avoid letting semen come into direct contact with the vagina. For some women who are not yet planning to have children, they can choose to use condoms during intercourse to prevent allergies.
But for women who are planning to have children, try to let the semen flow out of your body after intercourse and wash your vagina/vulva with warm water. If the situation is more serious and you are prone to symptoms upon contact with semen, you can take anti-allergy medication 30 minutes before intercourse as a way to reduce your body's allergic reaction. Note that the medication should be taken under the guidance of a medical professional, and the same applies to trying to prepare for pregnancy.
Three of the most bizarre allergens, how many do you know?
In fact, life's strange allergens are more than just semen a, some people are allergic to substances that are going to make people laugh and cry degree.
1, allergic to water
Allergy to water is scientifically known as aquatic urticaria, which refers to an allergy to moisture, including tears and sweat. British girl Nia Selvie is a patient of water allergy, she once shared her experience of "struggle" with water on social media.
She said her daily contact with water would cause an allergic reaction to her skin, manifesting itself as swelling, itching and pain, and scratching her skin would cause it to break and bleed. That's why she doesn't really dare to shed tears or sweat on a daily basis. The most difficult thing in life is to take a bath, every time you take a bath you need to go through "nine hundred and ninety-one difficulties".
Before taking a bath, she needs to measure her temperature and blood pressure, and under normal circumstances, she needs to use a dry brush to clean her skin before entering the bathroom to take a bath. For the first five minutes of the shower she needed to relax herself within the hot water with added soothing agents, start rinsing as soon as her body had adjusted to the hot water, and finally rushing out to the fan to dry her body right before the pain hit.
That's not the end of the story, as she faces a series of painful episodes of burning, itching, redness and swelling of the skin, as well as a sharp rise in body temperature, and she has to wait for the discomfort to pass, with painkillers failing to ease the pain, making every shower a "purgatory" for her.
2, condom allergy
Currently on the market, most of the condoms are made of latex, and if some people themselves are allergic to the body, it is also more likely to appear latex allergy phenomenon. The allergy may manifest itself in the form of genital rashes, redness and itching, in which case latex condoms should be avoided on a daily basis.
3, allergic to money
Allergy to money is mainly divided into two cases, one is allergic to nickel-chromium metal within the coin, the second is allergic to the ink on the banknote, in contact with the contact dermatitis is prone to occur.
4, allergic to wifi
Britain has a 15-year-old girl, for wifi allergy, in contact with WiFi will appear headache, fatigue and other symptoms. This phenomenon is clinically known as electromagnetic allergy, exposure to all electromagnetic waves will bring discomfort to the body.
Four, how to deal with allergies? Try 3 methods
For some people who are prone to allergies, it is natural to find ways to deal with them on a daily basis, and these three methods are what you need.
1, avoid allergens
If allergy symptoms, it is recommended to go to the hospital to test what the allergens are. After clarifying your allergens, avoid contact with them as much as possible in your daily life, and doing so can avoid allergies to a great extent. For example, if you are allergic to seafood, you should avoid eating seafood, and if you are allergic to alcohol, then you should not touch alcoholic food.
2, medication
Clinical anti-allergy drugs commonly used antihistamines, hormonal drugs and oral medications, allergy-prone people should follow the doctor's instructions to use drugs.
3, desensitization therapy
Desensitization therapy is a kind of immunotherapy, using the immune response of allergens to treat allergies. During the treatment process, the doctor will gradually guide the patient to contact the allergen, slowly reduce the body's reaction to the allergen, and then gradually increase the amount of contact, so that the body is gradually desensitized.
Interactive: What other strange allergens have you heard of?
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