SEX AND ALLERGY: REACTIONS TO HUMAN SEMEN, MUCUS, SALIVA AND SKIN
It is extremely rare to react to another person’s semen, mucus, saliva or skin but it does happen. Only consider these as possible causes if you have eliminated others as above already.
If you think you are sensitive to your partner’s semen or mucus, use a condom for sexual intercourse to protect against direct contact. Use Durex Allergy condoms as above if you are sensitive to latex and spermicide. To be extra careful, do not touch sexual organs with hands, and wash hands, body and face thoroughly after intercourse. See if things improve.
It is very rare to be sensitive to someone else’s saliva or skin. If you think you are, make sure your partner has been absolutely scrupulous about using no toiletries, cosmetics, perfumes, etc., on skin, and that you both are using low hazard laundry agents. Use no toothpaste, mouthwash, home medicine or anything else that might pass from the mouth. Check whether you react to tapwater.
If you do react to skin, the parts that are most commonly affected are the mouth, face, neck and upper body. Bathe these parts (or others if they require it) in either a solution of alkali salts, or in Cream of Magnesia before and after sexual contact. Bathe your partner as well to help protect you.
One last thing that you can try to help you tolerate a partner’s semen, mucus, saliva, or skin, is for her or him to avoid foods to which you react. If you are very highly sensitive to a food, you may just be reacting to minute traces of it in your partner’s body fluids and skin. This is only likely to be the case if you are exceptionally allergic or sensitive. A tiny number of people find that it can help them if their sexual partner avoids the foods that upset them particularly badly. It can be worth trying if nothing else helps you.
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