It's the first ever described case of intravascular semen injection...
A warning has been issued to the public by the Irish Medical Journal, about the dangers of medical experimentation - after it emerged a man injected himself with his own semen to treat back pain.
The case in question involves a 33-year-old man who was complaining of severe lower back pain after lifting a heavy steel object.
However upon further examination of the man by doctors, a red rash on his right upper arm was identified.
It was then that patient admitted he had been injecting himself with his own semen for a year and a half.
“The patient disclosed that he had intravenously injected his own semen as an innovative method to treat back pain,” the case study noted.
“He had devised this 'cure' independent of any medical advice. Upon further interrogation of this alternative therapy, he revealed he had injected one monthly 'dose' of semen for 18 consecutive months using a hypodermic needle which had been purchased online.
“Upon this occasion the patient had injected three 'doses' of semen intra-vascularly and intra-muscularly,” it said.
Doctors found that the semen had leaked into the soft tissue in the man’s arm, causing the rash.
“This patient’s back pain improved over the course of his inpatient stay and he opted to discharge himself without availing of an incision and drainage of the local collection,” the authors noted.
The Dublin-based authors say the case is “the first ever described case of intravascular semen injection and associated abscess in the medical literature” and warn the case “demonstrates the risks involved with medical experimentation prior to extensive clinical research”.
NEED A BREAK? WHILE YOU’RE HERE, CHECK OUT iRADIO BREAKS.IE.
