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Conference turris::womannotes-v2

Title:	ARCHIVE-- Topics of Interest to Women, Volume 2 --ARCHIVE
Notice:	V2 is closed. TURRIS::WOMANNOTES-V5 is open.
Moderator:	REGENT::BROOMHEAD

Created:	Thu Jan 30 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 30 1995
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1105
Total number of notes:	36379

167.0. "Women allergic to their husband." by FROTHY::GONDA (Rumi |d|i|g|i|t|�|l|i|t|e|) Thu Sep 08 1988 19:03

    Hold It!  Before you folks out there press the hairtrigger of
    you bazookas, this is a serious note.  The main intention of
    this note is to increase awareness of the problem which many
    women out there may be suffering from and not know what is
    going on etc.
    
    This was the topic of Donahue show on TV.  The title really
    did not do justice, but I guess they have to have catchy titles
    to keep the audience.  The issue really being discussed was
    women who it is now shown are allergic to seminal plasma/fluid.
    The women on the panel who suffered from this allergy had to
    go through a lot of pain psychologically, emotionally, and
    physically.  Not many doctors/gynecologists know of this situation 
    and hence these people are usually diagnosed as having some other
    problems.  The way some of the couples on the panel figured
    it out was by putting the two things together.  That is when
    they had sex the women had the allergic reactions.  The one
    thing to notice is that the allergic reaction is to the
    seminal plasma and not the semen so a vasectomy of the male
    in the couple is not necessarily a solution to the problem.
    For some couples using condoms does help.  However one of
    the women on the panel said she would get these reactions
    even by her husbands sweat and saliva too.  
    
    The show also discussed more about the allergy, ways on curing
    it, and lot of other things I can't seem to remember properly
    so I'd rather not put in misleading information. 
    
    (RUMI) (c)
    DECelite development.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
167.2		MOSAIC::RU		`Fri Sep 09 1988 16:18`	2
	Another good reason to try it out before getting married.
167.3	More Info, Please	SLOVAX::HASLAM		`Fri Sep 09 1988 16:30`	1
	What kinds of reactions did the women have?
167.4		FROTHY::GONDA	Rumi \|d\|i\|g\|i\|t\|�\|l\|i\|t\|e\|	`Sun Sep 11 1988 12:22`	9
	Well from what I still remember. There are two major catagories of the problem one the localized reaction one and other the more serious and non localized reaction one. The localized reaction people usually had allergic reactions near the vagina region only and usually were less severe. The other group would have reactions all over the body. Now reaction here means the usual allergy related reactions such as blisters, asthamatic reactions, lung collapsing, fainting, etc.
167.5	You Are What You Eat	RUTLND::KUPTON	Goin' For The Top	`Mon Sep 12 1988 10:00`	18
	From what little I've read or heard about this, it can be similar to an irritating/itching rash, blisters, etc. OR it can be as severe as getting the wrong blood type administered. It may not be that the woman is allergic to the man as it may be that the semen or seminal fluids of a particular male may be harmful to many women. The acidic vaginal secretions may not be acidic enough to destroy the bad actors in the seminal fluids. It really is a tough call. Allergic is probably the best until more study is complete. With all of the chemistry that we eat in his world today, it's not surprising that the things are beginning to occur. As a side: I teach chemical safety at DEC and at UMASS. The most interesting parts of the lecture are reactions that people have when informed of what they eat and drink. This ranges from soft drinks to coffee to cold meats. Ken
167.6	can be a factor in infertility	DOODAH::RANDALL	Bonnie Randall Schutzman	`Thu Sep 15 1988 13:30`	9
	A very minor reaction can involve only itching and an inability to conceive. A friend of mine was diagnosed with this condition several years ago during infertility counselling. She was treated with some kind of cortisone cream that toned down the reaction and gave birth to a lovely daughter a few months later. --bonnie