According to
a recent episode of TLC’s “Sex Sent Me To The E.R.” show, it wasn't always this
way for the couple, whose last names and hometown are being kept confidential
by the show's producers. After their son's birth, Kristyn developed a ton of
allergies and other health issues that stopped them from having intercourse for
a full year.
On Sean's
birthday, Kristyn surprised her husband with sex and the couple got an even
bigger surprise! Done correctly, sex usually leads to a lot of heavy breathing,
but Kristyn had a much more severe
reaction. She mysteriously experienced severe swelling, burning sensations and
had breathing difficulties so severe that she passed out on the way to the
hospital. Continue
Doctors
suspected she might be allergic to Sean's cologne, but tests revealed another
allergen -- his sperm.
Kristyn's
hubby, Sean who was shocked at the test results, said on the show:
"All I
heard was that she could be allergic to her husband. I thought ... 'Allergic to
her husband? How? You mean because he's too fine? Too good-looking and all
that?"
Actually,
no. Sometime during her pregnancy, Kristyn had developed seminal plasma
hypersensitivity, a condition similar to a peanut allergy, but instead it's
caused by contact with semen.
Dr. Carmela
Yomtoubian, an emergency room physician at Loma Linda University Medical
Center, said the condition is rare. She said:
"During
pregnancy, a woman's immune system is mildly suppressed in order to not reject
the baby that is growing inside of her. During this time period, if the patient
is exposed to some sort of new allergens, she can develop a hypersensitivity to
that thing."
In rare
cases, she says, that "thing" can be seminal fluid.
Emergency
room doctors gave Kristyn an antihistamine to combat the swelling and burning,
and an allergist later confirmed Sean's bodily fluids was the culprit. Doctors
said she can continue to have sex with her husband provided they use condoms.
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