Watered-down, fat-free milk

Ejecting fluid during sexual activity and orgasm is not usual for females. However, two physiologic (normal processes) have been described, squirting/gushing and female ejaculation. Squirting/gushing refers to the expulsion of a relativity large volume of clear fluid through the urethra (the tube that carries urine out of the body); this fluid originates from the urinary bladder and resembles diluted urine biochemically.

Female ejaculation refers to the passage of a white scanty fluid originating from the female prostate that resembles watered-down, fat-free milk; biochemically female ejaculate resembles semen except that it does not contain sperms.

The female prostate - previously called Skene’s paraurethral gland – surrounds the female urethra and empties into it or just beside it; about half to two thirds of women have a female prostate.

Reference

Rubio-Casillas A, Jannini EA. New insights from one case of female ejaculation. J Sex Med, 2011 8(12):3500-4. Go to reference

Milk, female prostate gland opening

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Ripe cheese odor

Leucine is one of the amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins. Leucine is an essential amino acid meaning that the body cannot make leucine from scratch; it has to be obtained from the diet.

Isovaleric acidemia is a rare inherited disease in which there is a deficiency of the enzyme responsible for the processing of dietary leucine. Failure to process leucine results in the abnormal accumulation of isovaleric acid and other compounds, resulting in an affected individual having a body odor reminiscent of ripe cheese or sweaty feet/socks.

Isovaleric acidemia is a serious disorder that usually manifests in infancy with poor feeding, vomiting, convulsions and due to abnormal accumulation of isovaleric acid and other compounds there is damage to the nervous system.

Reference:

Lee H et al. A novel duplication at the putative DNA polymerase alpha arrest site and a founder mutation in Chinese in the IVD gene underlie isovaleric acidaemia. Hong Kong Med J, 2010 16(3):219-22. Go to reference

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Socks and cheese

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Butter stools

The digestion and absorption of fats is a complex process that involves the stomach, liver, pancreas, intestines and other organs. Due to disease of these aforementioned organs either singly or jointly, fat digestion and absorption becomes impaired resulting in excess fat in stool (human feces).

The feces become greasy, fatty and bulky (steatorrhea) – butter stools. It is not unusual for this type of stool to be foul-smelling and to float in water.

In general, stool consists of about 75% water and 25% solid matter.

Reference:
Harper M. Congenital steatorrhoea due to defect of the pancreas. Med J Aust, 1949 1(5):137-41. Go to reference
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Butter

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Cottage cheese appearance

The vagina is an organ used for having sex, as an outlet for menstrual blood flow and for child birth. Candida albicans, a fungus, is an organism found naturally in healthy people for example on the skin, in the mouth and vagina and so on.

However, at times due to circumstances such as use of antibiotics, poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, immunosuppression, etc. or for unknown reasons, a vaginal overgrowth of Candida may occur (thrush). Besides a thin watery discharge, itching of the private parts, discomfort during sexual intercourse, etc. women with thrush can develop a thick white discharge that resembles cottage cheese in appearance.

Most women during their lifetime will have at least one episode of thrush - thrush is not transmitted by making love.

Reference:

Achkar JM, Fries BC. Candida infections of the genitourinary tract. Clin Microbiol Rev, 2010 23(2):253-73. Go to reference
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Cottage cheese, candida albicans

 

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