Your lips can feel weird after eating popcorn due to the butter or salt getting on your lips which can result in tingling sensations and even cause your lips to feel dry.
Tingling and burning of the lips after eating popcorn can also be caused by capsaicin that is found in spicy peppers if your popcorn was spicy.
Also popcorn being a dry food can absorb moisture from your lips and leave your lips feeling dry and tight and feeling weird.
And popcorn kernels can get stuck your lips and cause a sticky sensation as well.
And some people might have swelling of their lips after eating popcorn, especially if they're allergic to certain ingredients in popcorn.
Be sure to drink water when eating the popcorn to keep hydrated and you can also wipe the lips off with a wet washcloth and use some lip balm or lip moisturizer after eating the popcorn.
The weird feeling of your lips after eating popcorn should go away within a day or less.
When your tongue feels weird after you eat it can be a result of food allergies or even food sensitivities or even vitamin deficiencies like B12, iron or folate deficiencies.
Even nerve issues such as nerve damage or compression and even anxiety or stress can trigger tingling sensations in your tongue.
Certain foods may also contain compounds that temporarily cause your tongue to tingle and it's usually nothing to worry about goes away soon after you stop eating the food.
Although if your tongue continues to tingle or tingles when eating certain foods you might be allergic to those foods and should get tested for food allergies.
Hot foods and spicy foods and even hot drinks can cause your tongue to tingle or become burned and painful.
Burning mouth syndrome is another condition that can cause burning or tingling sensations in the tongue and other parts of your mouth and sometimes can be a result of nerve damage.
Food allergies or food sensitivities, especially oral allergy syndrome, where the body mistakes food proteins for pollen, can cause a tingling and burning or itching sensation in your mouth and tongue.
Anxiety tongue is a range of sensations in your tongue which can occur as a symptom of stress or anxiety.
When you're stressed or are experiencing anxiety your tongue can start tingling, be numb, have a burning feeling or even itching.
Anxiety tongue can also cause a feeling of swelling of the tongue or even a swollen appearance to the tongue.
The anxiety tongue symptoms can be worrisome but they are not usually harmful or anything to worry about and are often just a result of the body's stress response.
When your anxiety goes away and your stress goes away the anxiety tongue symptoms like the tingling, numbness, burning, itching or swollen tongue should also go away.
Treatment for tongue tingling that occurs from anxiety involves treating the anxiety such as through psychotherapy, medications like SSRIs or SNRIs or even a combination of both psychotherapy and medications.
Stress management can also help manage anxiety and stress and reduce the anxiety tongue symptoms.
Stress related tongue symptoms can also result in a scalloped appearance of the tongue due to teeth indentations or even a geographic tongue that has patches that move around.
Other physical symptoms of anxiety include shortness of breath, rapid heart rate, sweating, dizziness, muscle tension, headaches, stomachaches and digestive issues.
Anxiety can also cause fatigue, insomnia as well as shaking or trembling and the symptoms can also be triggered by your body's fight or flight response to perceived threats.