Sunday morning I awoke to a rash about the size of a quarter near my mouth, just barely overlapping my lip. Hmm, I said to myself, what could that be from. Saturday night I'd eaten western food at a nice restaurant, so I didn't think it could be from that. So I led myself to believe I had scarlet fever. now, this wasn't a huge jump out of nowhere, my already big tonsils have been giving me even more trouble the past few days, all I was missing was the fever.
Sparing you details on my health (which I am on the mend, so no worries), I spent Monday and Tuesday in bed, luckily with classes canceled except 1 hour on tues night. So today I say okay, I have to go into work. I get to work and of course the teachers are like, 'what's that rash on your face?' I tell them I have no idea. Then one of them says, "you know my sister gets a rash like that when she eats mangoes. Have you been eating the big ones?"
I said, "The big ones?" as in, why would it matter if they were big or small
"Yeah, you know, they have big mangoes and small ones."
me,"Well, as a matter of fact I have been eating one big one a day for the last 4 days or so."
"yup, that's eat, you should probably stop eating them, or only eat the small ones."
My logical way of thinking (yup, the same logic that led me to think I might have scarlet fever) is still stuck on what does it matter if they're big or small.
well, sure enough, mangoes are in the same family as poison oak etc... and coming in contact with mango skin can potentially cause a reaction. Who knew! Didn't have too many mangoes growing up in the midwest. In fact, I don't remember ever seeing them at the grocery store. well, they're delicious, and in season now. i.e. 5 decent sized mangoes for $1.50US (about 2 punds worth). So it looks like I have to eat the little ones or be super careful about the big ones!
mangoes. poison oak. wtf!
Whoa, I have never heard of that. They are my favotite fruit though, and I've never had a reaction. Very interesting!
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