chemicals in contact and heated often form third unintended chemicals.
Perhaps that is what is happening here between a couple of the ingredients,
and you are reacting to that unintended chemical?
However, speculating out in left field here, your having a rash only on
your upper lip, without any other symptoms elsewhere, indicates a reaction
because of depositing the whatever there on that skin, and that raises some
questions -
1) why not the lower lip, also? Is it limited to the upper lip because of
something present only in the vapor?
2) Or maybe you wipe your upper lip more often with this dish? Cloth
napkin/sleeve :-) ? detergent residue released by one of the compounds in
the dish or more deposited because you are being careful and wiping the lip
more with this dish?
3) Shaving soap/aftershave, etc. reacting to the vaporized whatever?
4) Are you now washing your lip before eating this dish because of a
previous problem, removing protective oils only with this dish? - or washing
the lip after eating, allowing compounds to reach the skin?
5) You got some foreign spices harvested in places that use all that
rejected chlordane, etc., banned by in the US and shipped to Brazil, etc.?
Some places check on its use, others don't. (That stuff works pretty slick,
too - cheap, keeps weeds down for years, cuts way back on labor costs.)
or is the rash because you get caught down over the pot holding the dish,
skimming the broth because it's so good, and someone hits you in the lip
trying to put the lid back on the pot? :-)
Hope you find the source......
ps - if it's the last one, wear safety goggles and a mouthguard - you could
lose an eye.
"notbob" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:I made my faux Thai fish curry last night...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K2546164B
and this morning I woke up with an angry rash on my upper
lip. The only other time I've experienced this rash was when eating
Chuck Taggart's Shrimp and Collards Gumbo, another fav.
http://www.gumbopages.com/food/soups/shr-col.gumbo.html
The rash comes on overnight, lasts a couple days, then disappears.
It's quite irritating, like my upper lip has been burned. This is
really weird as I really have no true allergies that I know of. I've
only experienced this rash a few times and only with these two dishes.
Even weirder, I don't always get the rash when eating these dishes. I
use Chuck's creole seasoning all the time, as meat rubs, chili spice,
etc, but the rash only occurs when used in the shrimp/collards gumbo,
but not every time. I've never previously gotten this rash from my
curry dish despite eating it dozens of times. But, this time I used a
different Patak's curry than usual (Vindaloo). I'm thinking it must
be certain spices in combination with seafood. Anyone ever experience
this sort of thing?
nb ...totally baffled
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