French Kissing risks more than other

French kissing is the best preferred as the intimate kiss between loved ones. However the UK research shows that french kissing puts teens at greater risk of contracting meningococcal disease than their lip-pecking counterparts. The intimate kissing or passionate kissing or french kissing is the kiss involving tongue and exchange of saliva, which increases the risk of infection.

The study, published this week in the British Medical Journal, involved about 300 teenagers aged 15 to 19 who had been admitted to hospital with a meningococcal infection.

Intimate kissing with multiple partners appears to increase the risk of contracting the disease, a religious event was associated with a low risk. The microbes that we normally carry in our throats are readily transmitted to another person through intimate kissing.

When microbes that cause meningitis are transferred from one person to another, the body's immune system is normally able to repel them and they don't do any harm. If by chance you have a sore throat because of a smoky atmosphere or an existing virus, you can get caught by the disease.

But teens that avoid smoky parties and don't kiss with a sore throat may still be at high risk, the study suggests. University students are a high-risk group. The passionate and intimate kisses are practiced in universities more.

He speculates that teens with a religious lifestyle may have fewer opportunities to exchange saliva, thus putting them at low risk of the disease. Believers might prefer to account for this particular finding as the power of prayer.