Woman Hospitalized For Allergic Reaction To Her Husband’s Sperm

Apparently, s*x can make you sick too, and not
pregnant sick, sick-sick where you end up in the E.R.
That is the story of a woman named Kristyn. According
to Kristyn, who appeared on the tv show, Sex Sent Me
to The ER, this has not always been the case. After their
son’s birth, Kristyn developed a ton of allergies and
other health issues that stopped them from having
intercourse for a 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.
Doctors suspected she might be allergic to Sean’s
cologne, but tests revealed another allergen — his
sperm. He wasn’t pleased. “All I heard was that she
could be allergic to her husband,” he said on the show.
“[I thought], ‘Allergic to my 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. “During pregnancy, a woman’s immune system is
mildly suppressed in order to not reject the baby that is
growing inside of her,” she said. “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 s*x with her
husband provided they use condoms.