After the incident, the man drank a sip of this substance and died immediately

It is often heard that you cannot eat or drink cold food after ejaculation, otherwise it may cost your life. It just so happened that the gardener of a wealthy neighboring family had a wet dream while taking a nap next to a well in the summer. After waking up, he felt dry mouth, so he casually drew a bucket of cold water from the well and drank it. In the afternoon, he felt a stomachache and died when he returned home the next day. I still don’t understand why we should prohibit cold drinks after ejaculation (or after sex)?

Li Hongjun, a postdoctoral fellow at Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Region, replied: After sexual intercourse (ejaculation), men will generally experience heat and thirst, especially for those who are easily nervous or physically weak. In the summer when the temperature is high, they are more likely to sweat profusely and become thirsty. From a medical point of view, rushing to eat cold food or drink cold drinks at this time is definitely extremely harmful to your health.

This is because: sexual intercourse itself is a strenuous exercise that consumes physical energy. During strenuous sexual exercise, the gastrointestinal blood vessels are in a state of expansion. Rushing to drink cold drinks before the gastrointestinal mucosal congestion has returned to normal will undoubtedly cause the gastrointestinal mucosa to suddenly contract due to the cold, causing certain damage, which can easily cause gastrointestinal discomfort or colic. At the same time, it also creates favorable conditions for pathogenic bacteria to invade the body.

Therefore, if you sweat profusely or feel dry mouth after sexual intercourse, you might as well drink a small amount of warm water to quench your thirst. When having sex in the hot summer, if you are worried about being thirsty and unable to resist the temptation of drinking cold drinks, you might as well drink a small amount of warm boiled water first, and then drink cold drinks after about an hour of sexual intercourse, when the blood circulation of various organs of the body has basically returned to normal. Never harm your body for the sake of momentary pleasure.

However, drinking cold water after ejaculation alone is not enough to kill a man. If this were true, there would be many clinical examples of such deaths, but this is not the case. The above situations may just be some kind of coincidence, and it is unlikely that drinking cold water after nocturnal emission "killed" the man.

Regardless of whether it is true or not, the editor still recommends not to drink ice drinks or take a cold shower directly after intense exercise. This is because after intense exercise, the body's pores are open. Directly showering with cold water may cause bacteria to enter the pores. The same is true for drinking cold water.