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Possible Seminal Transfer of Penicillin

Richard L. Green, MD; Mayer A. Green, MD

JAMA. 1985;254(4):531.

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PRACTICALLY all drugs are capable of causing allergic reactions, and all routes of exposure can be potentially sensitizing—although some are more so than others (ie, intravenous and intramuscular vs oral). A particularly vexing clinical situation arises when drug exposure occurs surreptitiously through some other medium. For example, penicillin used to be found in cow's milk when cows were treated for mastitis¹; infants may contact a drug in their mother's colostrum when nursing²; and frozen foods can contain antibiotics.¹

We have recently treated a female patient who developed urticaria following sexual intercourse, and in whom we believe hives occurred because of allergy to a medication transmitted in her partner's semen.

Report of a Case

The patient was a healthy 33-year-old woman who was being treated in our office with immunotherapy to pollens, dust, and molds for her allergic rhinitis. She called one day to report that she had . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Allergy Associates of Pittsburgh.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Allergy Associates of Pittsburgh, Suite 380, Gateway Towers, 320 Ft Duquesne Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 (Dr R. Green).

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