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Two recent case-control studies, both published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, have shown that intake of pholcodine-containing cough medicines during the year preceding general anaesthesia significantly increased the risk of anaphylaxis caused by neuromuscular blocking agents. Both a French multicentre study and a single-centre study from Western Australia offer strong support to the pholcodine hypothesis for IgE-sensitisation to neuromuscular blocking agents. The European Medicines Agency, criticised for not taking preventive action at its first assessment of pholcodine in 2011, finally recommended a stop to sales of all pholcodine-containing medicines throughout the EU on December 1, 2022.

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