u/Cheap_Shrills

Hi all! I’ve had an awful year and looking to see if anyone else here can relate: In May 2025, I rinsed and ate fresh-picked strawberries and my lips had blisters within minutes. From then until early fall I kept having recurring blisters, but somehow nothing in winter. Then it started back up this past April. I finally got the patch test done and I’m allergic to Phenylenediamine (PPD), Gold, and Propolis.

So the theory is that I ate strawberries with bee residue/pollen and then the cycle continued since I kept using beeswax and topical steroid. My lips may have already been past their threshold before this from facial products that didn’t have propolis, but had other botanical/fragrances.

So after the patch test, my allergist put me on a lower dose steroid since my lips flared incredibly while the patches were on. It’s been two weeks and the new steroid was working but yesterday I started having red rawness and burning sensation again (luckily no new blisters...yet). Today I’m just using vaseline.

I have really bad seasonal allergies, so maybe a combo of that with the steroid made my lips flare again? Has anyone experienced anything like this before? I’m feeling desperate to just get my lips back to normal.

Hi all! I’ve had an awful year and looking to see if anyone else here can relate: In May 2025, I rinsed and ate fresh-picked strawberries and my lips had blisters within minutes. From then until early fall I kept having recurring blisters, but somehow nothing in winter. Then it started back up this past April. I finally got the patch test done and I’m allergic to Phenylenediamine (PPD), Gold, and Propolis.

So the theory is that I ate strawberries with bee residue/pollen and then the cycle continued since I kept using beeswax and topical steroid. My lips may have already been past their threshold before this from facial products that didn’t have propolis, but had other botanical/fragrances.

So after the patch test, my allergist put me on a lower dose steroid since my lips flared incredibly while the patches were on. It’s been two weeks and the new steroid was working but yesterday I started having red rawness and burning sensation again (luckily no new blisters...yet). Today I’m just using vaseline.

I have really bad seasonal allergies, so maybe a combo of that with the steroid made my lips flare again? Has anyone experienced anything like this before? I’m feeling desperate to just get my lips back to normal.