Can Sharing a Kiss Lead to Gluten Transfer?

Apparently this Digestive Disease Week at Medscape. (I dunno how the spiders got involved.)

Although it is unlikely that canoeists will ever administer first aid for gluten transferred by kissing, more knowledge can't hurt.

This study, with a very small N, suggests that the risks are low. If you are worried about transmitting gluten to your partner, simply drink a glass of water after eating but before kissing.

Fortunately, a sigh is still a gluten-free sigh.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticl...CPEDIT_etid7421821&uac=389934HN&impID=7421821

(sigh) not sure how I missed this but, then again, maybe that's for the best...

The couples were instructed to kiss with an open mouth for at least 1 minute, involving the tongue and saliva transfer.

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OK so, the instructions were: "Slip her the tongue for at least a minute... I'll just watch". God, I miss college (then again, some days I don't)

10 couples? That's not a statistically significant sample size from the design phase. Seems more likely that it's just a professor who is a voyeur. (not that I mind; I'm not paying her salary, I'm just sayin'...)

Sharing a kiss can lead to all kinds of things.

We have to wonder how the researchers ever got a grant to conduct this study!

I'm always hopeful that things like this are funded privately but, then again, it's harmless enough... if it keeps us from getting all of the governance that we pay for...

I suppose the relevance of this topic is whether one should administer mouth-to mouth resuscitation to someone with celiac disease who drowned on a canoe trip. Well, would they prefer a bout of intestinal discomfort or death?

Or maybe it's just that on Father's Day (tomorrow) we are thankful for the conceivable outcomes of kissing.