May 31 2005
So,
when I went to Summer's house on SundayI woke up the following
day with a rash on my mouth. I get this rash a few
times a
year. I'm never totally sure what causes it. It feels like
poison ivy, which I'm particularly sensitive to. I always figured
that since she lives in the woods, some poison ivy oil floated
over onto my lips. I took a picture of the rash, but this is
almost a week after I got it, so it is hardly noticeable. It
actually wasn't ever very noticeable, except for that it almost
drove me INSANE, constantly.
I was trying to think of what could've caused this rash,
and the only things besides floating invisible poison ivy I
could think of were that I ate a mango, chomping down on the
core and pretending I was an islander, and that we layed out
in the sunshine. I thought it could've been a sun reaction,
who knows.
Anyway, I did some research and I found out the following!
DAMMIT! Mangos are my FAVORITE! I'm thinking that if I discontinue
my current practice of slobbering all over the fruit and pretending
I live on an island, and if I eat it CAREFULLY with no face
contact, and if I thoroughly wash the skin, I might still be
able to eat the fruit I love so much? It said the rash could
last as long as a couple of weeks. Check this shit out:
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The mango (Mangifera indica), a large tree native to India
and
Southeast Asia. This tree is grown throughout tropical regions
of the world for its delicious, fleshy fruit containing a large,
seed-bearing pit (endocarp). Mango trees belong to the sumac
family (Anacardiaceae), along with poison oak, poison sumac
and the cashew tree. People who are hypersensitive to poison
oak often get a mouth rash from eating mangoes. In fact, there
is some evidence that native born Hawaiians and Asians may
be less susceptible to poison oak because of early exposure
to mangoes.
Are Mangoes Allergenic? Mangoes may be allergenic as many
tropical fruits often tend to be. They are not know to commonly
cause life threatening allergic reactions however. The type
of allergic reaction a Mango may cause is topical or dermatological.
A person who has a reaction to Mango will find a rash much
like that of poison ivy or poison oak. The rash may occur when
the affected person comes into contact with either the sap
from the Mango tree or from the skin of the fruit itself. The
allergen itself resides in the skin/peel of the mango and not
within the actual fruit itself. Eating the mango "meat" or
pulp will not cause the rash to get into the throat or tummy
per se but if the oleoresin from the peel/skin has touched
the Mango "meat", a rash may erupt around the mouth.
Some sources say that a Mango allergy may in fact cause a rash
around the bottom as the mango is digested and passed through.
That being said, there are many pediatricians who say that
tropical fruits should be held off until 8 months old and up.
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