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| '''Male menstruation''' can describe: | |||
| ==In intersex or trans men== | |||
| A scenario where a ] undergoes ], a biological process typically associated only with ]. Many individuals ] continue to menstruate after they ] to living as men, but the term is also applied figuratively to real or perceived anomalies in ] men. | |||
| In a medical sense, "male menstruation" colloquially describes a type of bleeding in the ] or ] caused either by surgical infections, or by ], the latter reported in a handful of tropical countries and more recently ''en masse'' in countries where medical assistance is readily available.<ref name=Egypt>{{cite web |url= http://www.humanecologyreview.org/pastissues/her91/91kloosdavid.pdf |title= The Paleoepidemiology of Schistosomiasis in Ancient Egypt}}</ref> In the context of ] ]s, it is the ] notion that male ]s are suffering of monthly menstrual bleeding, being part of the wider claim that Jews were collectively of feminine ]. | |||
| ==In schistosomiasis== | |||
| As the word is used by natives of affected areas, bleeding in the urine or from the anus caused by ]. | |||
| ===Name=== | |||
| Affected locals, uneducated at best, thought that it was strange but not of major concern before modern medical knowledge, and so referred to it as the male equivalent of female ].<ref name=Egypt/> | |||
| ===Causes=== | |||
| The symptom is actually caused by numerous different factors.<ref name=Egypt/> In ] countries it is often related to surgical infections, but is, in impoverished countries and massive tropical areas most indefinitely related directly to a parasite infestation of the ] or intestines by '']'' - also known as snail fever.<ref name=Egypt/> A disease caused by the parasitic ]s called schistosomes.<ref name=Egypt/> | |||
| ===Epidemiology and manifestation=== | |||
| Most commonly affected are farming communities that live and work in humid marshes and waterlogged places such as the ]s throughout Asia, where most young boys unknowingly contract ''Schistosoma'', where then the parasite begins to cause damage internally throughout their stomach and intestines.<ref name=Egypt/> The labour combined with parasites eating away at organ walls causes ] bleeding from multiple orifices (mainly the ], ]).<ref name=Egypt/> | |||
| In far more, less reported cases, it is found that boys in an affected area who work in a factory environment, instead of the teeming parasite habitat that is knee high paddy fields, are very rarely diagnosed with ''Schistosoma'', which helps outline where exactly the problem emerges from and whether or not if it is affecting drinking water sources. | |||
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