From: "Steve Harris" <SBHarris123@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition Subject: Re: Fish Odour Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:32:38 -0600 > "Sprite" <tskg@btinternet.com> wrote... > > >I think I have trimethylaminuria (fish odour syndrome) and I was hoping > >someone could point me in the direction of futher help. If you're female and the fish odor is in the region of your vagina, I would suggest you see a gynecologist. These things usually aren't serious, but if you want to do something about it, there are antibiotics to help. From: "Steve Harris" <SBHarris123@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition Subject: Re: Fish Odour Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:52:06 -0600 "mnt" <alsern@home.com> wrote in message news:S1s77.178651$Q9.43303348@news1.elmhst1.il.home.com... > have you been drinking again Dr Harriss? Tony is a mans name, men do not > have vaginas, and vaginas smell like fish from the hormones kept there, > the same hormones you find in carp and other fish, that's why it smells > like that I've got terrible news for you. Vaginas don't "ordinarily" smell like fish. I could go on, but I'm feeling kind today. SBH From: "Steve Harris" <SBHarris123@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition Subject: Re: Fish Odour Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:14:57 -0600 "mnt" <alsern@home.com> wrote in message news:JlB77.179762$Q9.43651703@news1.elmhst1.il.home.com... > in japan older women replace natural hormones with a drink made from > fermented carp fish. you can ask about this at the Sushi bar if you ever > get a date. If I ever date an older japanese woman and she wants to go to a sushi bar to stock up on fermented carp to get hormones, I'll be sure and ask. Sounds like something straight out of After Many A Summer Dies the Swan. Say, does it keep them young? Does anybody care? > i am not an expert on vaginas but i do have a very good nose, i suppose > next you are going to tell me they do not "ordinarily" taste like butter > pecan ice cream, Women's vaginas don't generally smell like what they've been eating. Perhaps you've not only been taken in by leaky gut syndrome stories, but leaky vagina syndrome stories, too. > btw women are getting smarter you can't trick them with the smelly vagina > story any more. Can't "trick" them?? There's nothing up my sleeve. Neither trichinella nor bacterial vaginosis per se is going to go on to pelvic inflamatory disease, and although they do (as irritative forces) seem to predispose to passage of HIV in Africa, if you don't have the HIV exposure, they're harmless. Nevertheless, if you treat both partners they do go away, and you can eat all the fish you like after that, and nothing will happen, so they have nothing to do with diet. Of course, with multiple sex partners you're soon going to be in the same fix. Blind men at the docks have a terrible time at the fish counters ("Hey ladies, hows the action?"). Truthfully I once had an infectious disease expert tell me that bacterial vaginosis was more of a cosmetic than a medical problem, and needn't be treated. (He happened to be male). And in some cultures and with some people, I'm sure it's true. You can actually smear your bottom with fermented carp paste, for all I care. In the US, however, I predict you'll have more success with butter-pecan. From: "Steve Harris" <SBHarris123@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition Subject: Re: Fish Odour Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 03:10:41 -0600 "Al Bardo" <albardo@nospam.net> wrote in message news:MPG.15c81b751837b71a989778@news.verizon.net... > In article <9jl829$ip7$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net>, SBHarris123 > @ix.netcom.com says... > > If you're female and the fish odor is in the region of your vagina, I > > would suggest you see a gynecologist. > > Bacterial vaginosis? > -- > Al Bardo Yep. If it smells like fish, treat with metronidazole/flagyl. You'll find it's not a fact of nature. From: Steve Harris <sbharris@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: sci.med Subject: Re: Pheromones, sex Date: 6 Aug 2005 22:51:10 -0700 Message-ID: <1123393870.024540.169370@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Robert A. Fink, M. D. wrote: > On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 16:12:24 GMT, "MCP" <gf010w5035@blueyonder.co.uk> > wrote: > > > > ><richardfangnail@excite.com> wrote in message > >news:1123344611.483010.207170@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > > > >> Is it true that a woman's pubic area has a scent or chemical that > >> affects mens' sexual desire? Or is it a myth? > > > >It's a myth idiot,it smells like rotten fish! > > > Wrong. The "rotten fish" odor is present when there is either an > illness (infection) or the area is not being kept clean. COMMENT: Yep, it's infection. Not necessarily an STD, but usually so (particularly in younger women). And there are multiple implicated bugs, some of them known (trichomonas), and some of them still debated. But they all produce amines, which is what smells "fishy" (salt water fish produce trimethylamine oxide as an osmotic agent), and the infections almost always respond to Flagyl/metronidazole. Usually both partners need to be treated. If a woman has multiple partners, she has to get rid of the amores to get rid of the amines. Congugate that ;) Nobody can stay on metronidazole forever, as it messes with your peripheral nerves. I was once at a continuing med education session on STDs and heard a (male) expert say that a fishy vulva was more of a "cosmetic" than a "medical" problem. I heard it! I did eye-rolling like Susan Sarandon and heard some faint suppressed groans behind me. But was sitting up front and didn't have the guts to turn around to see who was making them. Too bad. Cowardice. And so now I cannot report. And since we've arrived at politics, now for a politically-incorrect comment. Avert your eyes, all ye who cannot take such things. Stop reading here. Don't blame me for what comes next, if you don't. STOP. ********************************************* If a woman with a fishy vulva is a leftist CANADIAN, and the problem is indeed merely "cosmetic," the academic question for today is this: is metronidazole something she medically NEEDS, or something she merely WANTS? I hear she'll actually be paying more for generic metronidazole than in the US (though in truth it's cheap). But if it's not a medical necessity, SHOULD society pay for it? I believe there should be massive Provincial referrenda to determine this important democratic issue, immediately! The only spot of cheer here is that metronidazole has long gone off patent, so there won't be any TV commercials urging its use for this cosmetic problem. And you thought the $8 buck a pill Lamasil TOENAIL infection commercials were bad (Do Canadians get Lamasil??). Think what the little wee beasties in a **Flagyl** commercial would be doing. UGGH. SBH |