The make-up artist and photographer from New York Janelle González shared on TikTok a video of how it turned out after giving a “kiss of death “ and his story went viral.
The clip in which you can see the result of the allergic reaction she suffered after an appointment with a boy has exceeded 800 thousand reproductions in a few hours. “Watch your back, it’s not even safe to kiss men anymore,” joked González, who has already improved.
The 27-year-old told Buzzfeed News that she realized something was wrong when her lips and throat started to feel really itchy one night. It was an abnormal sensation, similar to what she had once experienced when she had had an allergic reaction to shrimp.
González went to great lengths to think about what could have caused the reaction (because that day, of course, he hadn’t eaten shrimp) until he concluded that the only thing that could have caused him was his mouth-to-mouth contact with a boy she had kissed. .
After a brief telephone conversation with the boy, Janelle clarified all her doubts: a few hours before kissing her, the young man had eaten rice with prawns.
The reaction, fortunately, didn’t force her to hospitalize, as she did when she was 18 when, unknowingly, she ate crab-stuffed mushrooms.
The kiss of death
Asked by Buzzfeed News, the Dr. Robert Sporter confirmed that this type of “indirect exposure can occur and trigger an allergic reaction” because dietary protein can remain in someone’s mouth for a period of time after eating.
The same medium points out that this “third hand” exposure is not as common as the more direct ones (those that have to do with eating or touching food ourselves).
Although Sporter doesn’t believe that intimate kissing of someone who has consumed an allergen is a “major source of dangerous reactions for most people,” serious reactions, Buzzfeed notes, “are definitely possible.”
Experiences like González’s have been known as “the kiss of death” since 2005 A 15-year-old girl died after kissing her boyfriend.
At that moment it was said that the girl had died because the boy had eaten peanut butter before kissing her the cause of death was discredited a year latersince the coroner cited an asthma attack as the real culprit.
Something like this happened in 2003: a woman nearly died after kissing her boyfriend who ate shrimp an hour before making contact with her.
In this case, the woman worked in a seafood restaurant and regularly experienced reactions to the dishes she served, so the researchers speculated that her minor reactions, over time, may have “prepared” her immune system to react strongly to the kiss. .
In 2012 there was a fatal case. A young Canadian woman, in this case, died after kissing her boyfriend after he ate peanut butter.
According to Buzzfeed News, allergists recommend that people with allergies, especially severe ones, bring an epinephrine injector and wear something like a MedicAlert bracelet that lists their medical information in case a reaction occurs in public.
Source: Clarin
