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CharlieO
11-09-2011, 02:48 PM
Ok so I stung my left arm and right hand today. My arm no longer stings and was fine but my hand has been constantly stinging for 4 hours and its all red and blotchy. Am I going to die? what is wrong with my hand D:
Vicky.
11-09-2011, 02:51 PM
Its going to drop off I think.
CharlieO
11-09-2011, 02:55 PM
D:
Jordan.
11-09-2011, 03:04 PM
You got nettle aids
CharlieO
11-09-2011, 03:06 PM
http://www.profimedia.si/photo/man-s-hands-making-thumbs-up-sign-condom/profimedia-0003046609.jpg
Scream
11-09-2011, 03:17 PM
I done it at school on Friday :( I leaned back at lunch and in lesson it was constantly annoying me! :(
Pyramid*
11-09-2011, 08:28 PM
Ok so I stung my left arm and right hand today. My arm no longer stings and was fine but my hand has been constantly stinging for 4 hours and its all red and blotchy. Am I going to die? what is wrong with my hand D:
When I was a kid there used to be two different types of stinging nettles that where around areas I played (not saying you are a 'kid').
The big very jaggy pointy one which gave you a 'needle' type sting only - with no real after effect
http://th00.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/124/5/d/jaggy_nettles_by_bassiks-d3fjqwy.jpg
then you got and the secret sly ones like below - that don't look as bad, but still like hell for hours and hours later....
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRJlIp3CWh7ENWyIZYHjaDwM4LbpFPCj 66P37_j17pqMUYzapmvsg
the answer is to get a dock leaf and rub it..... it help alleviate the sting as it contains antihistimines.
http://www.blog.sandycristel.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/treatment.jpg
Shasown
11-09-2011, 08:32 PM
When I was a kid there used to be two different types of stinging nettles that where around areas I played (not saying you are a 'kid').
The big very jaggy pointy one which gave you a 'needle' type sting only - with no real after effect
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTZSzNVOMGFtww9gSaL3dkikY237IxOI QGM3rJOqEOos1SZG0w_
then you got and the secret sly ones like below - that don't look as bad, but still like hell for hours and hours later....
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRJlIp3CWh7ENWyIZYHjaDwM4LbpFPCj 66P37_j17pqMUYzapmvsg
the answer is to get a dock leaf and rub it..... it help alleviate the sting as it contains antihistimines.
http://www.blog.sandycristel.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/treatment.jpg
Anthisan insect bite cream is also good, as is Eurax.
If you havent got either around the home, when you next go wee wee pee on the nettle rash, it will stop the stinging and reduce any sweeling etc. (Old army trick ;) )
Pyramid*
11-09-2011, 08:38 PM
Anthisan insect bite cream is also good, as is Eurax.
If you havent got either around the home, when you next go wee wee pee on the nettle rash, it will stop the stinging and reduce any sweeling etc. (Old army trick ;) )
PSML.... that Rebeckah has got your mind right in the gutter again, it surfaced briefly but nope, you're right in there again!! Dirty man.
I know that trick too, but funny enough: wee lassies aren't in the habit of pulling down their pants to pee on their hands.... boys are better designed for that sort of discreet behaviour!!
Peeing on jelly fish stings is recommended as an emergency first aid thing to.
:joker:
Patrick
11-09-2011, 08:40 PM
I remember in Summer I was with a girl at like 1AM in a forest - it was actually the day before CBB8's Launch :blush: and we were sitting on a wall like making out, and she forced me to like lie back and I ended up lieing in a ******ing patch of nettles and couldn't even scream with pain because I'd look like a ******ing bellend.
I agree about the docking leaf, used to use them all the time for jaggy nettle stings when we were younger.
Calamine lotion might stop it irritating too.
Kerry
11-09-2011, 08:49 PM
If you don't have any antihisthimine cream pop some ice on it
Patrick
11-09-2011, 08:51 PM
I agree about the docking leaf, used to use them all the time for jaggy nettle stings when we were younger.
Calamine lotion might stop it irritating too.
Both of these work actually.
But the second option is horrible.
I remember using docking leafs :lovedup:
This thread instantly made me think of The Rubberbandits.
About four people will understand this post.
lostalex
11-09-2011, 09:06 PM
We don't have those in America. Our plants are friendly. :)
http://www.travel-destination-pictures.com/images/500/redwoods-state-park_321.jpg
Shasown
11-09-2011, 09:13 PM
We don't have those in America. Our plants are friendly. :)
http://www.travel-destination-pictures.com/images/500/redwoods-state-park_321.jpg
Like poison ivy/oak/sumac fireweed and cactuses? you do have stinging nettles in the US
Pyramid*
11-09-2011, 09:13 PM
We don't have those in America. Our plants are friendly. :)
those are trees. ;)
monkshood, castorbean, and oleander are American plants that KILL !!:shocked:
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTEcRZ2M1t2xbk9bwdE3UeGdZaezlmMD Y2Hs6fSe8m65gc-KChETwhttp://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTYzCVApj7DJHBXIMLAQSSp4_E6wUuH3 jfZlkyrPok7l61ltlRM
lostalex
11-09-2011, 09:16 PM
Like poison ivy/oak/sumac fireweed and cactuses? you do have stinging nettles in the US
i can honestly say i'd never hear of "stinging nettles" til i saw it on british tv. if we have them, they must have a different name. ???
lostalex
11-09-2011, 09:19 PM
my grandmother had a Chestnut tree though, and those buggers are spiney.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/17/chestnuts.jpg
They're like hedgehogs without the cute. :(
Shasown
11-09-2011, 09:20 PM
They're like hedgehogs without the cute. :(
Hedgehogs without the ticks and fleas, oh and they dont taste as good. ;)
Harry!
11-09-2011, 09:21 PM
i can honestly say i'd never hear of "stinging nettles" til i saw it on british tv. if we have them, they must have a different name. ???
The scientific name is Urtica dioica if that helps :/
I hate stining nettles they are so horrible.
Pyramid*
11-09-2011, 09:23 PM
The scientific name is Urtica dioica if that helps :/
I hate stining nettles they are so horrible.
yeah, they're pretty evil too.
;)
:D.
lostalex
11-09-2011, 09:27 PM
Hedgehogs without the ticks and fleas, oh and they dont taste as good. ;)
ahh, now i've got the image in my head of hedgehogs being boiled like crabs and having to pry them open to get to the good bits... ewwwww. :(
Shasown
11-09-2011, 09:27 PM
The scientific name is Urtica dioica if that helps :/
I hate stining nettles they are so horrible.
Yep thats the common one. There are similar related in the Urticuculae group, and they are quite common now in the states
http://www.freshfromflorida.com/pi/enpp/botany/botcirc/Botcirc34.pdf
lostalex
11-09-2011, 09:28 PM
Yep thats the common one. There are similar related in the Urticuculae group, and they are quite common now in the states
http://www.freshfromflorida.com/pi/enpp/botany/botcirc/Botcirc34.pdf
it' must just be in the deep south then, thankfully i've never lived in the deep south. (for more reasons than just stinging nettles ;) )
Pyramid*
11-09-2011, 09:29 PM
it' must just be in the deep south then, thankfully i've never lived in the deep south. (for more reasons than just stinging nettles ;) )
Why - do you have some issue with people from the deep south? I wonder what it could be.....
lostalex
11-09-2011, 09:31 PM
Why - do you have some issue with people from the deep south? I wonder what it could be.....
must be the "humidity" ;)
lol
Pyramid*
11-09-2011, 09:49 PM
must be the "humidity" ;)
lol
What's wrong. Afraid to be truthful? Thought American was the land of the free and all that.......
After all, isn't that what the Constitution was all about: round about Article 4, Section 1, Amendment 13......;)
lostalex
11-09-2011, 09:59 PM
What's wrong. Afraid to be truthful? Thought American was the land of the free and all that.......
After all, isn't that what the Constitution was all about: round about Article 4, Section 1, Amendment 13......;)
lol, you thought i was afraid to say? i thought yu brits like subtlety, was just trying to talk your language.
LaLaLand
11-09-2011, 10:04 PM
We used to play a game when we were little in the Summer, put shorts on and run into the nettles... last one to get out is the winner. 1st one out gets thrown in the lake! :P
Pyramid*
11-09-2011, 10:07 PM
lol, you thought i was afraid to say? i thought yu brits like subtlety, was just trying to talk your language.
I can't speak of 'yu brits' but I'm quite happy to confirm that I'm neither a racist or a bigot - no need for subltely on that subject.
Subtley is one thing. Hypocrisy is another thing altogether.
I find it incredibly amusing that you state often on here how great Amercia is: so great that you know so little about it...... even to the down to flora that this thread was discussing, never mind your disregards for the very thing that most Americans are so proud of: The Constitution and the very fundamentals that it stands for.
Based on that: I'm far prefer to fall into a patch of stinging nettles, least I know what to expect.
Pyramid*
11-09-2011, 10:08 PM
We used to play a game when we were little in the Summer, put shorts on and run into the nettles... last one to get out is the winner. 1st one out gets thrown in the lake! :P
Anyone remember itchykoos........ I've got them growing in my garden and I'm always tempted when my friends are around, to slip one down the back of their shirts/top ... (we never grow up really!!)
:devil:
lostalex
12-09-2011, 01:04 AM
I can't speak of 'yu brits' but I'm quite happy to confirm that I'm neither a racist or a bigot - no need for subltely on that subject.
Subtley is one thing. Hypocrisy is another thing altogether.
I find it incredibly amusing that you state often on here how great Amercia is: so great that you know so little about it...... even to the down to flora that this thread was discussing, never mind your disregards for the very thing that most Americans are so proud of: The Constitution and the very fundamentals that it stands for.
Based on that: I'm far prefer to fall into a patch of stinging nettles, least I know what to expect.
wow dude, yu have me pegged all wrong if that's what you think. I don't post about how great America is, i just defend America when i notice someone attacking her around here. I've never gone out of my way to glorify America. I just give my experience as an actual American when it's relevant.
Pyramid*
12-09-2011, 01:46 AM
wow dude, yu have me pegged all wrong if that's what you think. I don't post about how great America is, i just defend America when i notice someone attacking her around here. I've never gone out of my way to glorify America. I just give my experience as an actual American when it's relevant.
Dudette if you don't mind!!!
I've got the cut of your gib. No need for you to try to explain. No need at all.
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