Translation :
Semen allergy goes around the world
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 14:10
If an ink blot, the news spread around the world to Reuters after the news of the latest research from Professor Marcel Waldinger had picked up and distributed. In the Netherlands the limited newspaper attention for his groundbreaking research to the Telegraaf and AD / Hague Courant. Too bad that the dailies are not called, or not?
"No, I do not pity. I am very pleased with the very large article in the Telegraph. The journalist has a well written story and throbbing. She interviewed me and one of my patients. Moreover, the Telegraaf most readers and I noticed because I was following the story very many responses. "
Semen allergy
Marcel Waldinger is a neuropsychiatrist in the Haga Hospital in The Hague and Sexual Psychofarmaologie professor at the Faculty of Science at Utrecht University. He discovered that men may be allergic to their own seed. This autoimmune disease POIS - Post Orgasmic Illness Syndrome manifests itself in flu-like symptoms after each ejaculation, a disease which for years was thought to be between the ears Sat "That there is a physical cause, for these men is quite a relief."
Waldinger received its first patient in 1998 who got flu like symptoms after orgasm and came to the conclusion that the symptoms were organic and not psychological as was previously thought. Two years later he received a second patient with the same complaints. He gave the disease its name POIS and published about it in 2002, after he got there new patients with whom he could do further research. This year he came with the results outwards. "The auto-immune reaction occurs at the time of the sperm to the testicles leaves and into the seed and ureter ends." He also has a cure found by a diluted form of sperm under the skin to inject it until the body the seed no longer considered as an allergic substance.
Sex sells
Now it is known that sex sells, Waldinger already knew because his previous research focused on women who walk around with Restless Genetal Syndrome (regs) that women constantly feel an orgasm. "After the Telegraph published the interview with me about POIS had called for a Reuters story. I found it very interesting to see how I then in the Los Angeles Times came to be and in newspapers in Singapore, China and South America. The result was that I was a few hundred e-mails received from men who recognize the syndrome. They wrote that they were glad someone had finally discovered where they suffer from. That their complaints seriously by anyone in the world were taken by the doctor because they were sent home with the announcement that they were physically nothing wrong. We also wanted some men come to the Netherlands for treatment. "
But sex-related stories are often a life of its own. And also know that Waldinger. 'ZZ Insider - we go deep' headline: "Some dudes are allergic to sperm Their Own" and ended the story with "So if you SEEM to have flu like symptoms every time you jack off, take a shot of your spunk and Eventually it will go away. (Okay no do not do that go to your doctor.) '"I note that not all publications. They abound. The media are on my research and have read it again a story about it. The result is that not all longer correct. I'm not even there anymore. "
Basic research
That his research is not discussed in popular newspapers among scientists as the dailies, the professor does not so much. "Most importantly I find that my research is published in my field in the renowned journal The Journal of Sexual Medicine." He is happy with the Telegraph and the Tros radio news show where he could do his story. "I have this many people to reach that may have POIS, and there it was me to do."
Meanwhile, Waldinger together with colleagues from immuno pharmacology continued his research into the cause of POIS. "We are now at the molecular level to the sperm look. What is there not? From studies in humans, we're talking about on basic research. "
Gwenda Knobel
