Corona, lime combination may cause skin reaction

NEW YORK - In a TV advertisement for Corona beer, a woman on a beach, irritated by her companion ogling a bikini-clad blonde, squirts him with the lime sitting atop his beer.

He may be in for worse than a surprise: A nasty skin reaction that one doctor is calling "Mexican beer dermatitis".

A substance in lime juice, if left on the skin in the sun, can cause the skin to become discolored, as if by poison ivy or a jellyfish sting - and the marks can last for months, reports Scott Flugman in the Archives of Dermatology.