Q1: How many POIS sufferers have a some kind of existing/chronic comorbidities related to a mental illnesses? Usually what kind of mental illnesses are involved?
Q2: I might be wrong, I understood Dr Waldinger to be distinguishing POIS as an "immunological" response vs an "allergic response to seminal fluid and he uses the immunological vocabulary in the causative context while talking about allergies mainly as an existing patient profile. Are these one and same (immunological vs allergic), or if they are distinct then how so?
Q3: I found it interesting where he talks about a "Clinical POIS test", where one stops an MB right before an ejaculation occurs. Q[/b]uestion: Dr concludes POIS as: "suggest that in POIS immunologic reactions occurs due to repeated close contact during ejaculation between seminal peptides (semen substance comprised of amino acids) and circulating T-lymphcytes ... This leads to a systemic reaction with multiple physical and cognitive complaints" Does this mean, that if ejaculation is done in a way so as to carefully not come in contact at all with the semen you will not have POIS? Just trying to understand, wouldn't the close contact that Doc is referring, be impossible since the T-lymphocytes are maybe sitting in the organ tissue itself right where the semen is travelling through while getting ejected?
