Oral sex could cause your stomach to bloat - here's how

• Published date: 05 October 2021
• Author: Walla!
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

During all the years we've been working here we've heard many strange stories that stemmed from having sex, but this is a first.

A woman, age 24, showed up in the emergency room at Stanford (California) Medical Center after experiencing severe abdominal and chest pain for six hours. Her pain was quite sharp and had spread throughout her abdomen, yet she had no other symptoms.

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Doctors had already seen this woman twice.

She had been admitted a year before, and had returned six months later with the same problem. Both times, doctors didn't find a specific cause for her pain. In X-rays, the results were the same: air was detected in the abdominal cavity (peritoneum).

This condition can be caused by a number of factors, from perforated ulcers to intestinal (bowel) cancer. Unfortunately, this air bubble may cause an embolism that can be deadly. This is why doctors had to find out what caused her repeated ER visits.

As mentioned, despite tests in the previous two cases, no cause was found for her condition and the air was gradually absorbed by her abdominal tissue, a process that took several days, a research team wrote in the Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons.

This time, the woman's sexual history was taken, and the cause of the bloating was discovered. Her...