A new wife was given a nasty wedding night surprise when she discovered she was allergic to her husband's sperm. Mike and Julie Boyde had been going out for two years when they got married and decided to have unprotected sex for the first time that evening.
After numerous tests and doctors visits, the couple were eventually told that Julie suffers from seminal plasma hypersensitivity.
Dr Andrew Goldstein said: 'The body recognizes the sperm as a foreign protein, like it would recognize a peanut allergen or a pollen so you have swelling, you have itching, you have inflammation of the nerve endings.'
But now, after a treatment failed, they have started adoption proceedings.