Hi,
I am trying to make sense of some symptoms I had, and I think that they either relate to food I ate or a drug I took. A couple of weeks ago, I took some Theraflu, hot, lemon flavored in a packet form. About 20 minutes later, I had a beer, and shortly thereafter I ate some Chinese Food.
Shortly after eating my dinner, I came home and laid down. Suddenly, I started feeling a shortness of breath, and some difficulty breathing. This was followed by a numb or swollen sensation in my tongue, and my face felt weird, particularly around my jaw (not on my neck). The wierdness could be best described as a numb sensation, the same feeling you get when a dentist injects your jaw a freezing mechanism. My eyes also started to water and I mucous came from my nose. Perhaps a slight sore throat, did not feel feverish.
After a few hours, the breathing became normalized and feeling came back to my face, and tongue. The next day my eyes were very red and people at work said my eyes looked "puffed" out. Total symptoms subsided after a day or two.
Anyways, I have take Theraflu in the past and don't recall this reaction, nor have I ever had this reaction to CHinese food, particularly the dish I ate, which I had eaten in the past without a reaction. Actually, I went back to the same restaurant, had Chinese food, did not have the Therflu or the Beer and had no reaction.
This scares me, so your help is appreciated.