3 Days before Day 1: Ate a Mango, including getting the flesh out of the skin with my teeth after lunch. Did not wash face until that night.
Day 1: Noticed a couple little bumps on lips, and thought they were really chapped. Applied regular lip gloss (Carmex) as usual.
Day 2: Woke up with swollen, inflamed, blistery, painful, itchy lips. They looked and felt AWFUL.
: Applied vaseline and scoured the internet to figure out what was going on.
: Figured out it was a mango allergy, but wasn’t sure what to do for it. Stopped applying vaseline because some said it might be bad for poison ivy types of reactions because it keeps blisters from drying out.
: Took an Alavert-24 hour to try to help with the allergic reaction
: Bought Ivarest Poison Ivy Itch Relief Cream and Benadryl Itch Stopping Cream.
: Took an advil and applied the Ivarest at 6pm to my lips and surrounding skin area, and the Benadryl cream that night after washing my face, before bed.
– Incidentally, both are SUPER painful – burning, drying, etc. on your lips.
Day 3: Woke up and lips looked only slightly better – the blisters were drying up a bit from the creams.
: Took an advil, and applied Ivarest at 9:30am
: Took an Alavert-24 hour to try to help with the allergic reaction
: Applied Benadryl cream at 2pm and again at 5:30pm
: Applied Ivarest before bed
Day 4: Woke up and lips looked better – good enough that I was only somewhat mortified to have to go out of the house that day
: While outside the house, I removed the Ivarest/Benadryl and applied Lip Clear Lysine+ (a cold sore treatment) because it also claimed to dry out blisters (albiet of a different kind), is fairly clear, and is safe for use on your mouth (The others probably aren’t ideal for use on your mouth)
: Applied Ivarest at night
Day 5, 6, 7: Each night I applied Ivarest (again it is SUPER PAINFUL – burning, etc.), and during the day I used Lysine. Each day my lips looked progressively better.
: My lips and the area around them were peeling constantly from Days 4-8 – the nasty blistered skin was flaking off. It was gross, but I tried not to mess with it and just let it come off naturally.
Day 8: The last night I used Ivarest
By Day 9, my lips look almost completely better. There were few spots on the skin around my lips that didn’t start to get red or inflamed until around Days 4-6, and those are still a bit red, but my lips are pretty much back to normal.
Day 10 and 11, I’m just using regular Burts Bees Honey lip balm, and trying to get my mouth back to it’s non-dryed out state. But aside from dry skin around my mouth, everything looks pretty much normal.

I don’t know if the methods I used were ideal to treat this, but I figured I’d at least pass them along so you’d have the type of info I looked for when I first figured out what was wrong – and an idea of how long your lips would look so gross and be so painful!
Hang in there. You’ll survive.

But yes, I’ve also fallen victim to the super cheap mangoes in season, and when I cut them up, I also suck the excess fruit off of the skin. (They really are tricky little buggers to cut.) I haven’t had poison oak in years, but had several outbreaks as a child that kept me out of school for weeks. THANK YOU!!

Hello Cheree!!

I have been clean and mangoless for 4 days now. I’m just taking it one day at a time. I started eating mangos when I was 8 years old. I once almost died from mango poisoning after going on an all weekend mango binge when I was 15. I’ve lost my job due to mangoism. I’ve lost friends and family. I’ve stolen from people I love just to get a mango fix. I’m at rock bottom. I am in detox now and the withdrawal symptoms are horrible. My lips look like someone took a cheese grater to them. I was in rehab with Mick Jagger and Angelina Jolie. Yes…they are mangoholics too!!! This is a hidden disease that noone wants to talk about. There are support groups like MAM (Mothers Against Mango’s). We all have a resposibility to end this horrible addiction.

btw… Mango hour starts at 5:00 and the mangorita’s are half off!!! :OO (thats my happy face but I cant smile because my lips are swollen).

If i peel off the skin under running water will this help against the toxin?

The recommendation is after eating a mango rinse your mouth out and GENTLY wipe your lips and face with water that has dissolved baking soda in it. Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is acidic in it’s natural state but the body reverses this Ph after it is ingested to an alkaline. Baking soda is an alkalizer and may help prevent the outbreak.