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Yes!! You could be allergic to your partner’s semen

Between The Sheets

Many couples who have difficulty conceiving are often told by the doctor, "Just go back home and keep on trying."

Diagnoses abound. But in some instances a proper diagnosis may be elusive because the real problem is a rare phenomenon; like sperm allergy.

Sperm allergy is no longer a myth. The diagnoses, at least by Kenyan standards, would involve what Dr John Ong'ech of Kenyatta National Hospital calls post-coital test.

"Couples have sex and then we collect the fluids from inside the woman to test if she is allergic to the semen," he says.

The doctors will be looking for dead sperms to prove the hypothesis. Your 'infertility' may turn out to be not quite real, because it is your body that produces antibodies which kills the sperms.

There is a high chance that sperm allergy may also be misdiagnosed for a sexually transmitted disease or infertility.

The condition, according to medics, has great semblance to endometriosis, a condition where endometrial cells lining the womb migrate to the ovaries, the lining of the pelvis behind the uterus and the top of the vagina.

According to Dr Ong'ech, "Sperm allergy is quite rare in Kenya. I witnessed it in my early practice. I am yet to come across the same again."

Nevertheless, a yet-to-be-published research by Dr Michael Carroll of Manchester Metropolitan University shows that up to 12 per cent of women may have the condition.

The good news is that all the doctor needs to do is get your man's sperms and bypass the 'toxic' vaginal area and deposit them inside the uterus from where they can swim to fertilise the eggs.

Naturally, seminal fluid creates changes inside the womb to help conception.

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