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Man suffers chemical burn that lasted months after squeezing limes


The toxin is in more foods than you might think, including carrots, parsley, limes, and lemons.

In a case of an oft-overlooked food preparation risk, a 40-year-old man showed up to an allergy clinic in Texas with a severe, burning rash on both his hands that had developed two days earlier. It turns out that just before developing the nasty skin eruption, the man had manually squeezed a dozen limes, then headed to an outdoor soccer game without applying sunscreen. This ties the double-stranded genetic material together, halting replication, which in turn leads to cell death and inflammation.

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