Why do your lips burn when you eat something hot?!
Question: I understand why your tongue burns. But why your lips?
Answers: I understand why your tongue burns. But why your lips?
Capsaicin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsaicin
beacuase its hot..
Because the nerves extend to your lips.
Coz tongue has few taste buds too
my lips never hurt, but when you put something hot to something else, it burns, BABY!!!! :)
yea, or maybe you have like a lil eensie weensie cut and yea im pretty sure you get it.
that happens to me but mostly if my lips are chapped.
hot as in spicy, or hot as in temperature?
You can burn your lips on hot soup.
You can burn your entire body if you spill hot soup over it.
It's because the soup is HOT. What part don't you get?
Hot foods usually irritate your skin, too.
if u get a cut on you lip blood comes very fast, what i m trying to say in your lips there are big veins and blood is running like in pipe. if you are not use to eat hot food then off course blood will get burn and you will feel it.
u actually have some taste buds on ur lips. i read that somewhere.
cause its hott
Your lips may burn if they are chapped, split, or a little dry (honestly, definitively not trying to be rude or anything) because it happens sometimes to me lol. It's rare to me though because I'm from the south and I LOVE spicy food (I even have hot sauce in my purse).
Plants like hot peppers contain chemicals natural to the species that are intended by nature to repel being eaten, which is, in actuality, contrary to the normal tendency of animal-borne propagation. Perhaps, in some cases, the eater such as a burro or rodent is essential to crack the durable seed-carrying pod before spitting out the 'hot' seeds.