Lime - Just a warning... and a question..

[Eagleizer]

Lime or lemon can give severe "burn" damage if you get it on your skin and are exposed to sun.

It`s not actually a burn damage, but I don`t know the word in english, but you would get something

similar if you get strong acid on your hands. When exposed to sun, some reaction occurs, and can

make damages as mentioned below.

The girls in this article from Norway last year, was making lemonade and squeezed lime with their

hands. After, they went to the beach and was exposed to sun. The pictures speaks for themselves.

http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/09/01/tema/klikk/helse/foreldre/29011547/

The article say that lemon, parsley, celery, carrot and figs can give the same reaction..

I have, however, used lemon to get color fast in Norway, and never experienced something like this.

Maybe lime is much worse..

Question:

So, I read somewhere that in Thailand Lime and Lemon are called the same?

Can lemon also be the small green ones?

Would be nice if someone could shed some light on this.. ..and also hear if you have

any experience about being burned by the mentioned fruits and vegetables..

Cheers

[Sheryl]

"minao" in Thailand are sort of a cross between a lime and a lemon.

I have no experience being "burned" by them. but of course I do not apply to my skin and then lie in the sun.

The sun in Thailand is a great deal hotter/stronger than in Scandinavia and tanning practices used back home should be modified here..not only in omitting the lemon but also in terms of length of exposure and time of day. Very, very easy to get a burn here.

[h90]

for me it looks that she had a very bad sunburn anyway and it just added...

[CobraSnakeNecktie]

its bleach like reaction.

It's old trick to put lemon juice rinse in the hair and then go out in the sun.. After a few days hair color to lighten considerably.

I am guessing its affected by various factors like juice strength, sun exposure etc.

For skin to react strongly I would guess the person has recently washed the protective oils from the skin or perhaps has relatively dry skin.

[Eagleizer]

"minao" in Thailand are sort of a cross between a lime and a lemon.

Thanks

[Eagleizer]

for me it looks that she had a very bad sunburn anyway and it just added...

If you look a the face of the girl in the first picture, I don`t think she looked sunburned at all..

The 2nd picture is 3 weeks after.. The condition is called "Margarita Dermatitis" if you want to

know more about it. Careful with that lime in your drink

5 other girls who made lime (inkl. video):

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=9235899

[bkkjames]

guess this is why i only put lime in my vodka on the rocks. much safer

[Showbags]

Gunna move my bath tub out into the sun and fill it with gin and tonics....and fresh limes of course.

[bina]

. there are several herbs that have that effect when exposed to sun. there is an other in hebrew i know the name, but ti really burns in the sun if it is on lyour skin. my duaghter worked at the jerusalem botanical gardens and got burnt hands from touching this herb ... Ruta graveolens ... it heightens the affects of UV light on skin when the aromatic oils are applied. not to be used by white skinned or sensitive skinned people also if eaten ahs similar effect. has a high LD rating also so not used so much any more.

yes unripe figs have a milky fluid used in herbal medicines to burn off warts. it does burn a bit on the tongue, or skin, but not terrible unless u are really sensitive This condition is known as "ficin dermatitis" – it relates to psoralens in the fig sap The psoralens are a family of chemicals made by many plants, but most prevalent in (and named after) the genus Psoralea, which is found in root vegetables such as celery, carrots, parsnips and turnips. These plants, including some exotic fruit trees, produce psoralens as a natural pest defence, since it can stop some infections to the vegetable, tree and fruit in their tracks and is also deadly to almost all insects.

Psoralens are substances that are activated by sunlight and are known to cause dermatitis reactions.

[thaipod]

My wife had a simular situation where she was working on our land and was cutting our Kaffir lime trees and picking their fruit and must of touched her face and ended up with dark blotches on her chin and cheeks and being in the full sun she had a reaction and needed to see a skin doctor.