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To the Editor: Hallett and colleagues (June 6 issue)¹ describe kissing-triggered reactions to food allergens. We would like to point out that kissing may lead to allergic reactions to far more than food. Liccardi et al.² recently reported the induction of severe drug-related angioedema in a 45-year-old woman due to kissing-transmitted bacampicillin, which her husband had ingested as a tablet two hours before kissing her.² Clearly, the kissing mode of exposure may be relevant not only for teenagers, as Hallett et al. suggest, but for all age groups. Physicians should be aware of this problem.

Axel Fischer, M.D.
David A. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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N Engl J Med 2002; 346:1833-1834, Jun 6, 2002. Correspondence

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