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Man suffers chemical burn that lasted months after squeezing limes
- raxxorraxor 2y agoThese substances are also used to intentionally make your skin more photosensitive (There are some skin therapies where treatment is applied through UV-light). Theoretically you can use them to quicken any tanning, but I guess dermatologists are happy that this isn't too widely known.
- ashleyn 2y agoBefore anyone reading this gets the bright idea to retail this as a new & "innovative" beauty product, consider the lawsuit potential from skin damage that will come from using it in an inevitably slapdash manner.
- jjmarr 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver#Colloidal_silver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver#Colloid... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria There are entire groups of people that sell colloidal silver as an alternative health remedy even though it turns their skin permanently blue.
- mock-possum 2y agoYeah a while back me and a buddy had the bright idea to use fresh markut limes with our beach beers - embarrassing (but hilarious) bright red puffy lips the rest of the weekend, with I assume chemical + sun burn. I’ll cook with markut in a heartbeat but I’m not messing with the raw juice anymore, that’s for sure.
- willy_k 2y agoMy guess is that you experienced margarita burn, so not from the lime juice alone but its reaction with UV. As long as you’re not in the sun, probably fine to handle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophotodermatitis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophotodermatitis
- mock-possum 2y agoOh yeah I’m sure that’s the case - I burn real easy even without the lime juice’s help.
- PKop 2y agoThis is literally what the article at the top of this thread is about, why are you presenting this information as if it's unrelated? Additionally, OP said it was chemical + sunburn, not lime juice alone.
- not_your_vase 2y agoMakes me remember the time when I got like 2 kg of hot pepper. I cut it up small barehand (being very careful not to cut myself), and cooked some stew of it. I gotta say, that was one of the best stews of my life. Also, after most of the burning went away about 8 hours later, it took only 3 extra days till I could use my hands again.
- dyauspitr 2y agoUse oil on your hands before dealing with hot peppers. This is second nature in places that use a lot of spice.
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- syndicatedjelly 2y agoThis is the first time I’ve heard of this “one weird trick”, as someone whose culture is known for cooking with lots of spices. Oil has a tendency to soak up capsaicin, and its even harder to wash off the skin than just…not oiling your hands. We just wash our hands after handling chilies. Never had a problem
- mrcode007 2y agocough cough Gloves anyone ?
- xbmcuser 2y agocough cough extremely weak immune system with multiple allergies anyone
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoWouldn't that be reason to use gloves too?
- Two4 2y agoThis also happened to myself and one or two colleagues when I was a barman. We'd start our shift cutting up limes and lemons for cocktails, and we developed weirdly sensitive skin and dermatitis on our wrists and between our fingers. Eventually a nurse I knew identified is as a very mild chemical burn that we were constantly giving ourselves. It still can flare up now, years later, if I cut up lemons or work with anything too acidic with my hands.
- crazygringo 2y agoFun fact: this is common knowledge in Brazil since the "national drink" is a caipirinha made with fresh lime juice, so if you drink it on the beach, people will explain for you to be very careful -- if you spill a little accidentally on your leg and don't rinse it off and stay in the sun, you'll get a dark spot that will last for months. Happened to me once. Ever since, I've been baffled as to why this seems like common knowledge there, yet nobody anywhere else seems to have the slightest idea that this is a thing as far as I can tell. I've always wondered if anybody ever tried it intentionally to "tan". For me it looked just like a big spot that was super tan, significantly darker than actual tanning can get me. It didn't look unhealthy in any way, just darker. I have to assume it has negative effects though...
- namaria 2y agoYup grew up in Brazil. I have childhood memories of that knowledge being drilled into my head.
- ericlewis 2y agoUS, GA here. My mom was big on tanning and warned of us this (lemons are also bad). I believe she said something about it being used on purpose for tanning, but that you had to be careful or you would badly burn. She probably did that around the late 80s or early 90s.
- syspec 2y ago> Of course, now that he knows, if he gets a lime burn again, there's no one else to blame—it's his own fault. What a weird last line; they could have just left that out.
- 0xcde4c3db 2y agoIt's a bit of a clumsy rewording, but it pairs with the opening line that mentions Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville". In the song, the narrator eventually laments that "some people claim that there's a woman to blame, but I know it's my own damn fault".
- big-chungus4 2y agoso can I eat carrots or not?
- s0rce 2y agonot exhaustive, but this paper (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8070520/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8070520/) shows very low levels of a few of these compounds in carrots compared to other edibles (ex. grapefruits).
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- worthless-trash 2y agoI picked papaya / pawpaw for a year, and the tree sap burns you for months, you bleed in your sleep when you sweat, you lose your body hair where it burned and it never regrows. Nature doesn't mess about.
- arcticbull 2y agoMango sap is also super caustic.
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoInteresting. I remember it being itchy, but I always assumed it was an allergy.
- binkHN 2y agoSurprise no one's figured out a way to package this for permanent hair removal purposes.
- stavros 2y agoThat's because the profuse nightly bleeding didn't test well with ages 0-120.
- 11235813213455 2y agoFig sap, it's like glue, I burned my lips and tongue as an avid fig forager, the trick is to wait at least a day when you pick a fig not totally ripe, so it burns less
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoWhere was this? It's the first time I've heard papaya and pawpaw used interchangeably outside of Guyana.
- worthless-trash 2y agoNorth queensland, Australia.
- throwaway984393 2y agoThe medical term: Phytophotodermatitis (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophotodermatitis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophotodermatitis) You can get it from the carrot family, citrus, mulberry, and legume. Most people only know about the citrus.
- swayvil 2y agoGet lime juice on your fingers (or maybe the peel oil). Then touch a disposable transparent plastic cup. You will leave fingerprints, dissolved into the plastic. Also I think googone is made of orange peel oil.
- astrange 2y agoI got a "cold virus defense" once that was basically an orange oil gel you rubbed on the inside of your nose. I can't say it burned me and it did smell good but I couldn't tell you if it worked or not.
- culebron21 2y agoI had unpleasant experience with some consumer chemicals. Removing paint from the balcony barriers, I didn't bother to cover my feet. When a small piece of paint with acid in it landed on my bare foot top, I thought that was nothing special, but it started to feel burning more and more, so I had to go wash it off in the bathtub. After this happened the third time, I finally decided to tie cardboard pieces to my legs and feet. No scars were left, probably thanks to the immediate burning feel. Another time, I used so-called anti-grease cleaner, which is an alkali just stronger than common soap. Usually it comes as dense liquid like "Fairy", but that one was spray. I wondered why, and I saw it work better than the previous ones, but failed to add 2 + 2. The % of the alkali was higher, it was a lot more aggressive, that's why it was enough in smaller quantities. Washing a pan inside with a brush (I did put on protective glasses), I felt it stick to my finger, but bother washing it off. When I did, I was already feeling the skin and the flesh underneath burn, and they shrank noteably, exactly like after you touch hot stove inside surfaces, or hot gas oven grill. I feared I'd have to treat it for couple of weeks, but magically that evening the finger came to normality, and no scars were left. Whew!..
- tdeck 2y agoAn even worse one isvhosuehold rust / lime stain remover; some of it contains hydrofluoric acid which can penetrate some types of gloves, go through your skin, and damage your bones. And you won't feel anything for a few hours. It's unbelievable to me that such a solution can be sold as a household chemical when there are far safer alternatives.
- culebron21 2y agocorrection: did not bother washing it off
- gorgoiler 2y agoGosh I know we have “do not track” as an option in browsers but I wish we also had a standardised setting for “do not ever show images of skin conditions”. Poor chap, no pun intended. I’d actually find it quite helpful — as an adult! — to have local content filtering for just this reason. It might be a good argument against the age-verification lunatics. With local content filtering I’d be able to opt out of gore. With AV, I’d be in the weird position of having to pose as a child, online, to get the filtering I need.
- waveBidder 2y agoif you want a host of weird and horrible diseases, read through beth moles article history.
- aaron695 2y agoThe pictures of “margarita burn" / "lime disease" / "phytophotodermatitis" are horrific for what you'd expect. The photos in this article are quite tame https://www.google.com.br/search?q=phytophotodermatitis&udm=2&vssid=mosaic https://www.google.com.br/search?q=phytophotodermatitis&udm=... Jewels, 12, and Jazmyn, 9, wound up spending several days in an intensive care unit, hooked up to morphine to manage the pain... A neighbor had a large lime tree that grew over the fence into the backyard where the girls went swimming. They had picked some of the fruits and squeezed them out into imaginary tea cups in their play lemonade stand Low level NSFL - https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2013/09/phytophotodermatitis.html https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2013/09/phytophotodermatitis....
- AdmiralAsshat 2y agoLime juice is crazy acidic. I was making Vietnamese Shaking Beef in a wok about a year ago, and it's finished with a sauce made of sugar, fish sauce, and reduced lime juice. My wok was well seasoned at the time, and I'd quick simmered wine and lemon juice in it before without damaging the patina. But just 2-3 minutes of that lime juice boiling in there took it all the way back to bare metal. It looked like I had put barkeeper's friend in there!
- ivanvanderbyl 2y agoThis happened to me in Bali a few months ago, I ordered a plate of tacos, they came with a side of lime. When I squirted the lime some of it shot out the side and got me right in the forehead. I didn’t think anything of it until it became inflamed and later blistered. I still have a dark patch resembling a drip on my forehead.