Couples In Love - Its All Nuts

 Couples are getting ever more experimental with their sexual practices .....

Spicy Food Doesn't Make For Spiced Up Love

.... some of which can literally spice up their sex lives: For instance spicy food doesn't always make for spiced up loving ......

1. An emergency physician in South-east Texas reported that 'One time I treated a woman whose partner had performed cunnilingus on her immediately after eating some spicy food. The hot sauce her partner consumed prior to the sex act left mild burns on her genital region.' They flushed the area and all was well.

2. A plastic surgeon in New York:  'While I was a general surgery resident, I encountered some 'unique' objects lodged in the rectum aka "rectal foreign bodies." In one case, we had to surgically remove a pink softball from someone's rectum, and in another case, a significantly-sized potato.'

3. An emergency physician based in Newport Beach, California reported: A woman rushed into the hospital he was working in and said she had extreme discomfort in her groin area. She was shifting side to side like she needed the toilet urgently. The doctor carried out some tests but was left baffled. Then the patient and her husband explained what really happened.

The amorous couple were spending their first evening alone without their newborn – and to celebrate the occasion they experimented in the bedroom with popping candy, also known as pop rocks. But when the husband performed oral sex on his wife, the sweets immediately exploded, causing a painful irritation, swelling, and burning sensation. The doctor irrigated her genital area, prescribed an antihistamine, and the woman made a full recovery.

4. A urology specialist in Lake Forest, Illinois reported: A street sweeper attended ER in agony with a fractured penis. 'When I met him in the emergency room, he was with his wife, and said he ran into a utility pole. That's the story he told her.' The doctor knew he was lying – 'because you can only fracture your penis a few different ways'.

And so the medic asked the man's wife to leave the room and the patient admitted he'd injured himself in the throws of passion with a prostitute. The doctor said his wife never found out the truth and the man eventually made a full recovery.

5. BMJ Case Reports: A woman ingested her partner's semen during oral sex. However she had an allergic reaction and broke out in hives. The woman also had trouble breathing, and when doctors investigated, they discovered she had an allergy to the antibiotic penicillin. Her partner had traces of a similar antibiotic, amoxicillin, in his semen. He had been taking the drug to treat an ear infection. This case is one of the first that demonstrates the phenomenon of allergens transferred through sex.

6. The Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology published a study in 2007: A a woman who had an allergic reaction after swallowing her partner's semen. She was allergic to Brazil nuts, and doctors found traces of them in his semen after he ate some earlier that day. He stopped eating Brazil nuts and all was well.

This reaction to nuts in a vagina (perhaps I should rephrase that as, 'nuts in the diet of male partners'), is loosely called "allergic vaginitis," as its so rare it hasn't been studied, despite anecdotal evidence. For instance a November 2022 case study in the journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology reported that Doctors in Delaware that treated a woman a 28-year-old woman whose peanut allergy made her vagina itchy and inflamed after her partner ejaculated inside of her, learned that she had a peanut allergy.  

The doctors heard that she and her partner were trying to have a baby. However she had noticed that if her partner didn't wear a condom and ejaculated inside of her, her vagina would itch, burn, and release an unusual discharge. But that if he wore a condom or didn't ejaculate, her vagina felt fine. The doctors advised her partner to remove peanuts from his diet. When he did, the woman didn't report any more problems.

7. A 2016 report in the Journal of Medical Case Reports said that a woman developed appendicitis after swallowing a condom. The 26-year-old woman arrived at the hospital complaining of nausea and pain in her stomach area. After running tests, doctors found she had appendicitis caused by swallowing a condom resulting in inflammation.

8. Ladies also have problems that aren't always male related: Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD) is an existing medical condition. So its likely to be the issue for a lady called Liz who appeared on the  TLC TV show "Sex Sent Me to the ER," complaining that after sex with her partner her orgasm went on for an hour after sex, and she started to panic. She tried drinking wine and jumping up and down to try and stop the orgasm, but nothing worked, and she was forced to go the hospital. After three hours of orgasming, Liz's orgasm subsided. The condition typically affects women and has no medical treatment.

Finally Swiss researchers at the Swiss University Hospital monitored admissions over 11 years that had been listed as sexual activity-related emergency department admissions: 

• A total of 445 patients were available for further evaluation; 308 (69.0%) were male, 137 (31.0%) were female. 
• The median age was 32 years (range 16-71) for male subjects and 30 years (range 16-70) for female subjects. 
• Two men had cardiovascular emergencies. 46 (10.3%) of our patients suffered from trauma.
• Neurological emergencies occurred in 55 (12.4%) patients: the most frequent were headaches in 27 (49.0%), followed by subarachnoid haemorrhage (12, 22.0%) and transient global amnesia (11, 20.0%). 154 (97.0%) of the patients presenting with presumed infection actually had infections of the urogenital tract. 
• The most common infection was urethritis (64, 41.0%), followed by cystitis (21, 13.0%) and epididymitis (19, 12.0%). 
• A sexually transmitted disease (STD) was diagnosed in 43 (16.0%) of all patients presenting with a presumed infection. 118 (43.0%) of the patients with a possible infection requested testing for an STD because of unsafe sexual activity without underlying symptoms.

Love might be fun ..... But sometimes it can hurt.