Yeah, I think you might just have sun burn or a rare, unheard of allergy to what is in your vapor.............but its almost Thursday, so I think if it was an allergy, you would have had effects much sooner.
Think I'm suffering a vaping side-effect
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When I started in January I woke up one morning and both my eyes swelled shut and my face around my eyes was very red, the next day the skin started peeling off. I thought I should see a Dr. but I was sure they would tell me to just stop vaping and I really didn't want to. I really believe that I had rubbed my eyes and the juice caused a contact allergy. I just made sure that I washed the juice off my hands and haven't had a problem since.
Actually yes, but it differs from person to person. Nicotine is not considered an irritant and neither is PG or VG (often used in moisturizers) but nicotine is a toxin and people have different levels of skin sensitivities. Getting the liquid on your skin and not washing it off when you can could very well irritate you on sensitive skin. The skin on your hands which encounter, hands on, the environmental is less sensitive to things because they come into contact with many harsher things then does the skin on your face during your life. This is why its important, if vaping, to step up the hand washing a bit - especially if you notice you have a few leaks. Hands and face connect constantly during the day and we are pretty much unaware of it so there will be lots of times that you have gotten juice on your hands (without any issues) and brought that juice to your facial skin without realizing it. Or you could have had a bit more juice in your PV and some splashed out, landed there and sat there upsetting your skin.
There is also a common complain from people who smoked for a long time when they move to vaping and stop smoking altogether and this will be ares that break out/breakdown and cause pimples or sores as the skin, especially around the face (where the analogs smoke was most concentrated) as the body starts working out all of the substances that were in the analog besides the nicotine. Some people break out all over their faces - like a back case of acne - while others just experience a pimple/sore in one or a few places. This is not directly related to vaping - its directly related to the fact that you stopped smoking and the body is getting rid of all that crap that comes from an analog.
Also, vaping nicotine will dehydrate your mucus membranes (mouth, nose, throat, esophagus, trachea) and membranes and skin that connect to them. Its very possible that you have gotten a sore on just the outside of your nose because of the dry of the connected mucus membranes. Even more possible is that it is a combination of both the dehydration and the nicotine itself The dehydrating effect made you touch the area but of dryness or the skin broke down in a small spot to get of crap that was introduced into the skin by the analog, even as small a spot as the size of a blackhead or small pimple. Even subconsciously you probably touch that area because it bothered you in someway and may have had leaked juice on your fingers/hand and the open skin was irritated this way.
Of course once you have a sore spot even if you try to consciously remember not to touch the spot with juice residue on your hands it will still happen.
Drinking more water is the best way to deal with this fact, plus your body needs more water now that you stopped smoking to rid itself of all those chemicals that analog was putting in your body. Increased hand washing will also help keep juice residue on your hands from continuing to make the area sore. Using a small dot of an antibiotic cream on the spot a couple of times a day, washing your face with a good moisturizing cleaner and using moisturizer on your face will help while the sore heals, and will help prevent more while your skin gets rid of the gunk.
Once your face skin purges the gunk it collected by being close to all that analog smoke and your body adjusts to vaping you should have less problems with being sensitive. Dry mouth, especially in the morning when you get up, probably will continue although your body adjusts to the dehydrating somewhat there will be less issues (you will still need to drink more water then you have in the past unless you were a big water drinker) but water is good for you in any case.. You might even consider carrying individually packages hand wipes with you so that when you drip fluid or refill your e-cig and cannot get to a sink or rest room you can wipe them of any residue from the juice on your hands (want the wipes as the wiping will help remove the residue) - just using a hand sanitizer is likely to not remove the residue as well; you can also your the wipe to wipe your battery and set up to remove any juice that might have leaked out and keep it off your hands. Rubbing them with hand sanitizer isn't going to be effective.
There is also a common complain from people who smoked for a long time when they move to vaping and stop smoking altogether and this will be ares that break out/breakdown and cause pimples or sores as the skin, especially around the face (where the analogs smoke was most concentrated) as the body starts working out all of the substances that were in the analog besides the nicotine. Some people break out all over their faces - like a back case of acne - while others just experience a pimple/sore in one or a few places. This is not directly related to vaping - its directly related to the fact that you stopped smoking and the body is getting rid of all that crap that comes from an analog.
Also, vaping nicotine will dehydrate your mucus membranes (mouth, nose, throat, esophagus, trachea) and membranes and skin that connect to them. Its very possible that you have gotten a sore on just the outside of your nose because of the dry of the connected mucus membranes. Even more possible is that it is a combination of both the dehydration and the nicotine itself The dehydrating effect made you touch the area but of dryness or the skin broke down in a small spot to get of crap that was introduced into the skin by the analog, even as small a spot as the size of a blackhead or small pimple. Even subconsciously you probably touch that area because it bothered you in someway and may have had leaked juice on your fingers/hand and the open skin was irritated this way.
Of course once you have a sore spot even if you try to consciously remember not to touch the spot with juice residue on your hands it will still happen.
Drinking more water is the best way to deal with this fact, plus your body needs more water now that you stopped smoking to rid itself of all those chemicals that analog was putting in your body. Increased hand washing will also help keep juice residue on your hands from continuing to make the area sore. Using a small dot of an antibiotic cream on the spot a couple of times a day, washing your face with a good moisturizing cleaner and using moisturizer on your face will help while the sore heals, and will help prevent more while your skin gets rid of the gunk.
Once your face skin purges the gunk it collected by being close to all that analog smoke and your body adjusts to vaping you should have less problems with being sensitive. Dry mouth, especially in the morning when you get up, probably will continue although your body adjusts to the dehydrating somewhat there will be less issues (you will still need to drink more water then you have in the past unless you were a big water drinker) but water is good for you in any case.. You might even consider carrying individually packages hand wipes with you so that when you drip fluid or refill your e-cig and cannot get to a sink or rest room you can wipe them of any residue from the juice on your hands (want the wipes as the wiping will help remove the residue) - just using a hand sanitizer is likely to not remove the residue as well; you can also your the wipe to wipe your battery and set up to remove any juice that might have leaked out and keep it off your hands. Rubbing them with hand sanitizer isn't going to be effective.
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