Skin irritations

I seem to rapidly be developing a plethora of skin irritations. I don't know why they are happening. I can't even say what is triggering them. I want to blame stress for my hives. However my lips do not want to be shown up. They are also trying to let the world know that I have no idea how to take care of myself.

Or at least that was my line of thinking when I started this entry a month ago. A few realizations have happened since. First, I could not find anything other than stress to explain away my hives. I decided it was all psychosomatic. It has since subsided. It has been at least three weeks since I've had a breakout.

Now the lip rash. I have this disappearing reappearing rash that keeps popping up on my lips. My long time go to for lip care seemed to now be breaking me out. I finally went to the store and pulled all of the different lip balms and looked for a common denominator. Turns out most chapsticks have either lemon oil or limonene. Limonene being one way to say orange oil. Oranges. A wonderful fruit for which I've developed an allergy. Things are finally explained.

Now that I know what to avoid things are becoming reasonable again. I miss orange juice.