Anybody here have a vinegar allergy? I just found out the hard way when my lips swelled that I'm allergic to vinegar. That means no salad dressings, no ketchup, mustard, black olives, bbq sauce......sob.
The swollen lips looked pretty sexy for about a minute till I realized what was happening.
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Ok, no allergies, to vinegar or yogurt...YAY! Apparently, the pretzels I ate the night before scratched the inside of my bottom lip and the vinegar on my toothbrush got into the scratch and irritated it. Phew!
The thrush grew because my sugar has been a little high, just high enough to cause dry mouth and that caused an overgrowth of yeast in my mouth (ewwww!) which spread to my throat, ear, esophagus and left lung.
The doc said anything that changes the ph of your mouth can allow thrush to grow, like mouthwash, acidic foods, and dental problems. So, no more Scope.
Who knew?
Twylarants posted on Oct 16, 2009
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MissMimi said on Oct 16, 2009....
I've never heard of an allergy to vinegar. Did this just spring up all of a sudden?
No olives? OMG, my sympathies.
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Hegemone said on Oct 16, 2009....
Wow, no, I've never heard of that. You went all this time without it and it suddenly popped up, or do you ordinarily not eat that kind of stuff? Hope you're feeling better by now. -
woman said on Oct 16, 2009....
Aw Twyla, This falls in the "not fair" category! Let's hope it doesn't happen with chocolate. Much sympathy. woman -
pickersplock said on Oct 16, 2009....
Weird how allergies can show up any time.I can't eat walnuts now, because they make my tonngue swell. -
the_infernal_optimist said on Oct 16, 2009....
Ugh, that totally stinks. :( It seems to me like if you can make it to adulthood without being allergic to it, it should be that way all your life!
But then, they didn't ask me. Silly them. *hugs*
~Infernal
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Eilan said on Oct 16, 2009....
Perhaps you could make lemonade out of those lemons by using those hawt swollen lips to do some sexy duckface poses. Or, um, not.
Seriously--that sucks, Twyla. This past spring, I discovered that I was allergic to flax, so now I'm even more OCD than usual about reading labels.
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mousenphonic said on Oct 16, 2009....
Never heard of something like it but then again with food nothing's impossible. (My daughter gets an allergic reaction from cream but not from any other dairy products....?) Vinegar in my home is actually a very effective remedy against hayfever and sinus so if it turns out anybody in my family is allergic to it, they'll have to choose: Angelina Jolie or Sniffles. :D -
UnicornForm said on Oct 16, 2009....
aw. no. haha sexy. -
bluegum said on Oct 16, 2009....
when i was young us young fellas used to say, a shelia with swollen lips was wanting it ,so only vinegar after all .Blue. -
CreativeWoman said on Oct 16, 2009....
That's too bad. That wipes out a lot of "diet" things. Totally unfair.
CW
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superbozo said on Oct 16, 2009....
As long as it keeps the lips looking sexy LOLCheaper than botox I guess :P -
porcelain said on Oct 16, 2009....
Bummer! I am allergic to chocolate and also corn dust. Rather unfortunate allergies for a young woman living in Missouri lol. But being allergic to something like vinegar bars you from enjoying so many things! My sympathy. -
Twylarants said on Oct 16, 2009....
The duckfaces look a lot better than I looked this morning...lol. Here's what happened:
My sugar has been high for a while now, (not very high but high for me) so I got oral thrush. It happens sometimes to diabetics...lucky me, huh?
I've been treating it with 3 Activia yogurts a day and its been working pretty well. So I don't keep re-infecting myself, I pour vinegar on my toothbrush to kill the bacteria, then rinse it and brush my teeth. The phone rang before I rinsed it and when I went back to the bathroom I put the toothbrush in my mouth. ARRRGH!!!! I rinsed my mouth with cold water but my lips swelled instantly. I stopped at my dr's office on the way to work but she couldn't see me so I made an app for Monday morning. I guess I'll let her treat the thrush and get it over with.
Anyway, at 1 o'clock my lips were still swollen and I got tired of people asking me if I'd been in a fight or if my husband hit me ("Did you read in the paper about a old, dead, bald man's body found in a dumpster? No, he did NOT hit me!), so I called the office to say I was coming in to see the dr. They were closed for the weekend.
13 hours later my lips are still slightly swollen and I have the worst chapped lips I've ever had.
Thank you all for the sympathy, I really appreciate it.
My lips hurt. Ouch.
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Me-Myself&I said on Oct 16, 2009....
oh, so sorry. that's not good at all. i would hate to have an allergy to vinegar. no pickles too huh. you will have to read labels now. good luck. this reaction didn't last long, did it?
well hope the weekend is good to you. take care ~see ya
oh, ps...just reading you up above. glad to read you are better.
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RollingC said on Oct 16, 2009....
Wow...sorry to hear about that.
You know...you can still have olives as some of them are packed (black olives) in salt brine instead of vinegar...but the flavor is not the same for me.
Any way you can get your body (or lips) used to vinegar little by little?
Rc
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Twylarants said on Oct 16, 2009....
I don't know, RC..this is the first time it happened. I eat ketchup, mayo, relish, salad dressing..I don't know why this happened. I took penicillin for years whenever I had dental work done but had an allergic reaction to it the last time I took it and now I'm extremely allergic and have to wear a med bracelet. I guess you can develop an allergy to anything at any time. -
Eilan said on Oct 16, 2009....
My grandma was allergic to penicillin, among other meds. Her medical chart clearly displayed her allergies on it, yet medical personnel always seemed to interpret this as, "Please try to kill this old lady by giving her drugs that she can't tolerate."
During various hospitalizations over the years, she had three or four near-fatal drug reactions because she was given a med that she was known to be allergic to.
Sending healing vibes your way. :)
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RollingC said on Oct 16, 2009....
Grandma's sister (guess that would've made her my great aunt?) developed an allergy to cheese...of all things...when she was in her 70's
Rc
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Mr.Strange said on Oct 16, 2009....
I love the "sexy lips" tag...who ever added that...GENIUS...
You could always do what Rasputin did
Slowly train your body to not have a reaction.
If it can work to make you immune to poison I do not see why the
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scipio said on Oct 17, 2009....
OK - so to suck anything is out of the question right now. LOL
always thought vinegar was a sort of preservative and acidic - so it should not cause swelling - may be some other preservative in it which may have triggered it.
Anyway get well soon.
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Twylarants said on Oct 17, 2009....
Scipio ~ Lol, yeah, no smoothies for me....that was what you meant, right?
Mr. Strange ~ I'll consider going the Rasputin route. Maybe I'll start off slowly by stabbing myself once or twice a day before I move on to the poison.
Rolling ~ I agree with Ferny, past a certain age we should be allowed to eat anything, drink anything, and smoke anything we want. So there! No cheese? No, sorry, that's unacceptable.
Eilan ~ that scares me to death, the thought that I could be in an accident and unable to tell someone I'm allergic to penicillin. I have a card in my wallet, a thing on my keys, and a bracelet on my wrist. Maybe I'll get a tattoo, also.
MeMy ~ no mayo! I'm devastated.
Porcelain ~ CHOCOLATE? CHOCOLATE?? (((HUGS))) You poor baby !!!
S'Bozo ~ Ouch! How can women let someone stick a syringe in their lips?
Pickers ~ I almost had a panic attack waiting to see if my tongue swelled.
Woman ~ No chocolate! I refuse to become allergic to chocolate! Poor Porcelain.
CW ~ Yes, exactly! Do you hear her, Allergy Goddess? That's not fair! Isn't diabetes enough to deal with? Now you want to take away my BLTs???
Bluegum ~ uhhh....okaaay.
Uni-Form ~ Not sexy at all! My bottom lip was swollen only on the sides, if you can picture it. It looked like 2 bees stung me on either side of my mouth. Not exactly the bee-stung look I was going for.
Mouse ~ Vinegar in my house is used for toilet cleaning. AngJolie can keep her lips, I'll stick with mine.
Heggie and MissMimi ~ It happened out of the blue. I eat mayo, ketchup (on occasion), not pickles but I love relish, and 1000 Island dressing is like ice cream to me. I'm so sad.
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scipio said on Oct 18, 2009....
Did you have anything else in mind ? Dirty minds think alike. LOL -
speaking_up said on Oct 18, 2009....
I heard our bodies change every 7 years. For example, when I was a child I was allergic to lemon...7 years later it was seafood (then that went away but I pretend I have that allergy as I hate fish now)...So, don't worry, if the scientists are right in 7 years you'll be rid of the allergy!