I went out for a sandwich and some soup a week ago. The sandwich was on an amazing homemade roll, and just a chicken rice soup. So I'm eating it, and the inside of my lips start burning really bad like they are chapped or something. There is never a moment that I don't have at least chapstick on my lips. I thought it was strange. I didn't think my lips were chapped or anything....but blew it off thinking they must've been....right?
the next 2 days they acted like they were burnt or maybe like I was going to get a cold sore or something? I didn't...and i've kept so much chapstick, blistex, vaseline on my lips all week that it's nuts! But the inside of my lips STILL burns! forget spicy food, flares it up like crazy!....and there just isn't enough chapstick in the world.
crazy thought....I wondered if I might be allergic to the "dusting" on the bread? I would assume it was just flour though...and I'm not allergic to anything? is this just plain old chapped lips and I've never really experienced it before? Has anyone had this? Anything else I can do besides the constant lip balms?
Did you look inside your mouth to see if you have a sore or something?
Two things cause this type of reaction in me, kiwi and peppermint oil. The oil is in a lot of different chapsticks, I have to be careful which brands I buy. The first time it happened with the kiwi, I had never had a reaction like that before.
It sounds like an allergic reaction. Even though you've never been allergic to anything in the past, you can develop an allergy at any time. Have you tried taking Benadryl? If the problem goes away after you have Benadryl, then it's definitely an allergy to something either in the ingredients of the sandwich, or in the roll itself.
The other thing it could be is a chemical reaction between the chapstick and one of the ingredients of the sandwich, but that would be really strange, and probably would have gone away by now?
Is there a defined sore area with margins and perhaps a bit of a blister looking spot or is the burning over the entire lips? If there is a defined sore and the whole lip also hurts or just a defined sore, I suggest you have a viral infection. Just takes time to get rid of it.
I doubt that this has anything to do with what you ate because you're still feeling it. If the pain was related to the food it would be gone by now.
Later: I just had the thought that you may have developed a reaction to your lip balm. Perhaps try something more neutral such as petroleum jelly (Vaseline) only for a week.
Let the place know and ask what was in your meal. Then your doc or a pharmacist can give you some good advice.
I'll bet there was something on the sandwich that irritated your lips. A spicy mustard, perhaps?
There is something that you are eating that you are having an allergic reaction to. You might try to figure it from that end.
Hope you figure it out soon!
Dawn
It could be the roll, or the sammie, or the soup, but it sounds like an allergic reaction.
Could it be chapping? Sure. Already chapped, and you stretched your mouth wide, and split the skin. Bam. Ouch.
But from your description, it sounds like an allergy.
EASY TEST: Go eat it again. If it happens again, take a benedryl. If it goes away, in 20 minutes it's an allergy (I used to be allergic to cumin and corriander).
Allergies either increase or decrease over time (they never stay static), because the histamine response either gets stronger with every exposure or weaker. These are usually very gradual increases... like stepping on the gas or breaks. Very rarely does a truck slam into the side of your care propelling you off the bridge.
This sounds like an 'increasing' allergy. Which means, a) that you've been reacting all along, but it's only now progressed to the point that you feel it, and b) you need to find out to what. So that you can avoid repeated exposure to it.
If you react, again, you're going to need to purposefully eat ingredients that go into one of those 2 things.
It will probably be fairly obvious (like there's ginger in the soup, and you rarely eat ginger, but now that you think about it you've always found ginger spicier than most people... and, yep, when you go home and eat some ginger your mouth wigs out) , but it may be quirky (like cast iron, or celtic sea salt aka a peat allergy).
