Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMYaR0etDWt/Up to 12% of women are allergic to male fluids released during intimacy leading not only to painful and embarrassing rashes and itching but more often to systemic symptoms.  A meta-analysis by OB-GYN investigators at Brooklyn’s University Hospital at Downstate analysed 53 studies with women aged 18 to 45 and an average age of 29.A full 60% of the women reported generalized systemic symptoms including widespread itch and rashes, cough, shortness of breath, heart racing, blood pressure drops, dizziness, fainting, facial swelling, nasal congestion, and gastrointestinal symptoms.  The other 40% reported more localized skin reactions.  A small number of cases progressed from local to systemic.This phenomenon, known to doctors as Seminal Plasma Hypersensitivity, is not new having been first described in 1967.  It is not due to sperm but rather causes by the fluids suspending them.  Localized versions are often misdiagnosed as infections.  This hypersensitivity, whil