Weird allergic lip/body reaction...help!?
Question:
On the day it started, I ate a mango, probably the second time in my life, and I also tried a lip product. I've been known to have an allergic reaction to lipstick in the past, so I was confused whether what was causing the reaction, the mango, or the lip gloss. I got blisters on my lips, and the yellowish crusty thingie that...really hurts. That night, I couldn't sleep because I itched really, really badly. So I just took a shower, and what do I see, something that looks a hell of a lot like anaphylaxis. All over my body. And I felt really dizzy. I remember I was sitting somewhere, and then I stood up, and I remember closing my eyes for a bit, and then the next thing I know, I'm lying down on the ground,waking up..I guess I fainted, or something.
So what I'm wondering is: Was the allergic reaction due to the lip gloss, or the mango?
Answers:
It's from the skin of the mangoes that contains urshiol, the same thing in poison ivy.
"Poison ivy is hardly the only source of urushiol, a class of toxins with varying potencies. It is also found in the skin of mangoes, as I sadly learned after eating a mango off the rind. It was still winter when I called my dermatologist and said, “If I didn’t know better, I’d say I had poison ivy of the mouth.” His immediate response: “You’ve been eating mangoes.”
My guess (and this just a guess) is that it was the mango. The lip stuff is just topical so most likely your reaction wouldn't have gone beyond the lip sore.Since you seemed to have a full body reaction, I would assume it was the mango because you ingested it therefore it was in your bloodstream which would have caused a reaction in places other than your mouth
It was probably a combination of both. I would stay away from both items in the future.
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