mouth sores and lips chapped,swollen,blister-like

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I first get sores in my mouth, then my lips are tingly, then chapped, swollen, and blistelike, happening over several days. The last time I had this, it lasted over 3 weeks. I went to the Dr. and he gave me medicine for Herpes virus (cold sores). I am now experiencing the same symptons, and the medicine the Dr. gave me doesn't seem to be helping.
A light bulb went on in my head, and I think that all three times that I have had this, I have eaten either cashews or dry-roasted peanuts a couple of days before this onset.
Has anyone experienced this problem with a food alergy?		mflowers
5/5/2006
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It absolutely could be a nut allergy.

who_is_this
5/8/2006
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I'm prone to getting at least 5 or six canker sores every year. A doctor told me once about 20 years ago that he thought it was herpes simplex type-1. They usually appear on one of my lips or where my lips meet my gums, and there have never been more than two of them at the same time. Anyway, recently I bought a 34 oz. jar of Hoody's Butter Toffee Peanuts at the grocery store, that's 2 lbs. and 2 oz., a big jar. My wife didn't like them, so I set out to attack the whole jar by myself, not in one sitting, mind you. Over the course of a week I ate several handfuls each day, maybe as many as 20 or 30 handfuls. By the end of the week, I had eaten about 90% of the whole jar. The next week I got two very painful canker sores on the side of my tongue, then late in the same week, two more on my bottom lip. A week later, I got a fifth one on my lip again. Then, just one day later, two more, one on my bottom lip, and another on the top of my tongue. A total of 8 painful canker sores in a 3 week period. Wow! I have never in all my 46 years experienced so many mouth sores!

And never in my life have I ever eaten so many nuts. I am absolutely convinced that the sores were a direct result of the peanuts.

Right at the moment, I still have two of the sores in the height of their painfulness, and I'm not totally sure whether or not they've stopped coming. The others have receeded. I have been swishing with a hydrogen peroxide solution ever since the first two showed up. Those types of solutions seem to be the best remedy for me.

mildmannered
7/13/2006
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