The Power of Three

At times the a combination of three powerful drugs can result to unexpected and dangerous predicaments. And if you factor that potency into sex, some scientific stories can be worth reading.

THE case I am bringing up today may be considered a sort of “X-File” in the field of medical therapeutics.

Six researchers, led by Javaad Zargooshi, from the Rhazes Center for Research in Family Health and Sexual Medicine of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (Kermanshah, Iran) reported early this year in The Journal of Sexual Medicine (Jan. 3) a case of drug-induced rupture (lesion) of the glans (helmet-like structure in the penis) after sexual intercourse with his wife who used a vaginal cream containing triple-sulfa antibiotic.

A triple-sulfa drug is a combination of three different antibiotics—sulfathiazole, sulfacetamide, and sulfabenzamide.

They confirmed that this case of a 42-year-old male represented the fourth case they have encountered. “To our knowledge, this is the fourth case of proven postcoital penile drug eruption in a patient following vaginal use of triple sulfa vaginal cream in his partner,” the report abstract declared.

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This article appears in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 15 February 2012.

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