I heard that saliva has a bad effect on sperm and after reading the article below I can't quite work out why doctors don't advise couples of this when they are trying to conceive!
( humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/12/3351.full.pdf+html )
In summary, saliva decreases sperm motility to nearly 0 within 15 minutes of contact, and has numerous other negative consequences. Saliva is in fact worse than KY Jelly, which I knew already was bad.
I was wondering if anyone on here has managed to get pregnant when they have had any hint of saliva near sperm? Anything to enhance SWI I thought would be a good thing - but it appears not!
From this article, the chances appear to be close to 0 so I was just thinking if couples (like me and DP) are having problems, why are clinicians not checking routinely if they have oral sex? I'm also wondering why this isn't in the NICE guidelines about infertility. It would never have crossed my mind that saliva could stop you from getting pregnant.
Any thoughts gratefully received .
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2up2down · 29/09/2012 16:06
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