Don't Eat Celery In The Sun, Folks!

[barry1010]

I never knew that it can cause such a nasty reaction (or even a mild one)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13479377/My-baby-daughter-left-horrifying-pus-filled-blisters-eating-stick-VEG-sunlight-transformed-hogweed.html

Not just carrots.  All explained here

https://www.healthline.com/health/skin-disorders/phytophotodermatitis#causes

[pastafreak]

Oh that poor, poor baby! That's horrific. And no, I've never heard of that reaction. I hope her skin heals. It hurts to just look at her.

[rockyracoon]

That's a bit of an eye opener. Poor little lass.

[jourdain2]

How awful!  Poor baby - and poor mum!  

I'd never heard of it. Perhaps people should be made aware. Celery is often part of salad picnics.

[barry1010]

Shocking, isn't it?  Not just celery either.  Best eat indoors away from the sun, midges, flies, wasps and other blerdy annoyances.

[Ringlet]

Goodness, that is awful.  But Mum should not feel guilty at all.  Not many people, I suspect, know about the possibility of this reaction.  I certainly had never heard of it before.  

I hope the poor baby soon heals with no permanent marks.  

[Old_Geezer]

Given my working tastebuds, I don't touch celery anyway. Or most raw veg for that matter.

 

Take away moral here is don't leave foodstuff on the skin as things can get sore.

[Vagus]

Before we all get worried about this, how common is it? I suspect not very common so probably no one need be anxious about having a picnic 🙄

[Peter Pedant]

yeah someone has already  said - phyto-photo dermatitis

I had forgotten Hogweed - it  is usually cucurbitae innit?

we were taught - if you irradiate the skin - you dont get anything ( sunburn)

if you irradiate and then apply the juice ( and occlude) - nothing

but you apply the veg juice and then irradiate, and get a blistering reaction

see Peter Borrie Roxburgh common skin disease 1970

https://academic.oup.com/bjd/article-abstract/112/1/119/6689647?redirectedFrom=PDF

 

[Peter Pedant]

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780723304395/Captivity-Doctors-Life-Prisoner-Borrie-0723304394/plp

it was the other Borrie who wrote the POW memoir. To get published there had to be a USP ( unique selling point) - his was The Germans had found a mass grave of shot Poles ( officers) and wished to  have British officers inspecct and oversee the excavations. MI5 got word into the camp that no one was to have anything to do with it.

There you are: Katyn from a British POW point of view ! bet no one here knew THAT !

cousins - Andy   will be after me for irrelevance

[Peter Pedant]

Blitties, not pus filled doo-dahs. The shocked mums like hyping it up. They are usual fluid blisters - partial thickness. Nothing more than calomine needed

[Peter Pedant]

Y'all can have great fun reading about it here. 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=phytophotodermatitis&;sort=date&size=50

the sort of " I now know far more about lime dermatitis than I ever wished to" reference

[jno]

I never knew that about plant-derived furocoumarins

[wolf63]

Celery is evil.

M&S is at the back of the office that I used to work in.

I had to stop taking a short cut through the store as the smell of Celery often made me feel sick.  Luckily I eventually worked out that it was during PMS week that it happened.  

Even the thought of it makes me cringe.

I just felt the need to share my story.😁

 

 

[Chipchopper]

That looks horrific, hope it clears up real soon!

I wonder if other members of the parsley family can cause a similar reaction ?

[barry1010]

Wolf, I eat a lot of celery but cannot detect a smell from it.

I don't know if it is you that is odd, or me 😊

[wolf63]

🤣

[barry1010]

😂

[jno]

I can't smell it but eurgh I can taste it. No horrifying pus-filled blisters for me.

[88aspiegirl88]

I used to love eating celery before I had to get a full dental clearance (for damage caused by chronic illness/enamel-eroding meds) & hadn't been able to eat it since. Perhaps it was for the best ... I mean, omg. I just can't shake the image of that poor baby's face all cracked with scabs & blisters. 😣

[Peter Pedant]

as far as I can see there arent epidemics only spaced  out case reports so it must nbe rare

not hogweed - I think that scores everytime, gloves only etc