The case of a woman who made four miscarriages and made her "allergic" to her husband's sperm – 07/04/2019

For a long time, Kathryn Berrisfor (33) naturally sought a son with her husband. Being pregnant was not difficult, but was suffering from complications such as pregnancy was never over.

The British embryologist, who works at the Nottingham Care Fertility Clinic, has suffered four spontaneous abortions and he went through various medical tests to find out what the problem was. "The recommendation was that I continue to try and hope to have my baby at some point," he told the BBC in an interview.

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Since he works in a fertility clinic and his family doctors have not given him a solution or an explanation, he asked for help from his colleagues. After several badyzes, the specialists discovered the reason for their abortions.

She and her partner, named Joss, have the same type of antigen specific to your immune system. An antigen is a substance that triggers the formation of antibodies and can cause an immune response.

"For this reason, my body did not see the sperm of the embryo as something strange (for my own body) and this prevented the pregnancy from thriving," he explained. For the pregnancy to be successful, Kathryn had to follow a method called "lymphocyte immunotherapy"

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The treatment consists of taking blood from the father, isolating the white blood cells from the laboratory and then injecting them into the mother's body. "They provide the mother with the father's antigens, which will be part of the baby, which causes a reaction from his immune system to accept it," he explains to Marcelo Cavalcante, researcher at the Department of Pediatrics. obstetrics and gynecology of the university. from Fortaleza, Brazil, in the same environment.

Although injections are made in anticipation of pregnancy, preferably intradermally, they may be repeated every three or four weeks during pregnancy to maintain the active immune response.

"So the next time the egg and sperm came together, my body understood that (the embryo) was a different body and that it triggered the pregnancy process," Kathryn said. He added: "Basically, they made me allergic to my husband's sperm to get pregnant"

After following this treatment, the embryologist gave birth one year later to his daughter Mae, born in perfect health. Shortly after, she became pregnant with her second child.

Although this treatment has been very beneficial to Kathryn, it generates controversy in the world of medicine. Immunotherapy with lymphocytes is banned by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) in the United States. It is not recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is not offered by the British National Health Service (NHS)

This can be done privately in Mexico (in fact, many American women travel to the border town of Nogales for treatment), as well as in other Latin American countries and in some clinics. in Asia and Europe, although few specialists are available. they offer it.

Its cost varies by country, but pre-pregnancy vaccinations can be 1000 dollars and, in cases where more injections are needed during pregnancy, others may be added $ 1500.

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