Educating patients with food allergies often entails conversations around checking food labels, informing restaurant staff, and general allergen avoidance, however, for those patients who are sexually active it may be a good idea to have "the talk" about potential risks they may face if they engage in intimate relations.

From allergens being passed from kissing to how some allergenic molecule may cross into a partner's seminal fluid, Gary and Luke review four cases in which food allergy reactions arose due to intimacies.

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