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Lovely walk earlier en famille. The Boy, a little over two years old, runs around like the proverbial headless chicken on such walks. Having so much fun! It's a joy to watch, until today when he careered towards a big nettle patch. His entire left side, clad only in t-shirt and shorts, went fully in to it.
He paused, for the briefest moment, and looked at his left arm with a face that seemed to say, "Oh. OK." and then he ran off again, seemingly unstung. He has since shown not even the slightest effect of having plunged in to nettles.
He seems to have been utterly unaffected by it. Is he some sort of alien creature?
I'm more affected now at 59 than ever. Never used to get much grief but now I tingle for hours afterwards.
pissed on gripe-waterHe seems to have been utterly unaffected by it. Is he some sort of alien creature?
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You know what to do.
He seems to have been utterly unaffected by it. Is he some sort of alien creature?
Maybe he hit it too hard to be stung, same way as you can handle them firmly and they won't sting you.
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hmmm, I take a daily anti histamine, for hayfever just about the only "benefit" is that while nettles intially still sting, the sensation lasts about 5-10 mins and then goes, and the normal white lumps that accompany nettle stings don't appear.
I'm not naturally immune though...
Isn't this one of the tell tale signs of leprosy?
2 things:
1. Nettle stingers have a "grain", so you can touch them from a certain direction (bottom to top is good) and not get stung.
2. The "sting" is not an acid or alkali like a bee or wasp sting. It's a histamine which causes an allergic reaction. This can be worse in some people than in others. Anti-histamines help (as above).
you can touch them from a certain direction
He blundered in. No finesse, that boy!
It's a histamine which causes an allergic reaction. This can be worse in some people than in others.
That makes sense. Can it have absolutely no effect, though? No rash/lumps, no reaction at all bar that initial look at his arm as if something had happened.
Not all nettles sing.
[i]Lamium album[/i] ?
(edit - Drac and I thinking along the same lines)
My boy has great fun showing his nettle immunity to his friends. He does this by grasping dead head nettles - he has only got it wrong once 😀
Lamium album ?
Am aware of their work, but they weren't there! 🙂
Not all nettles sing.
You're gonna need an ocean
Of calemine loction
is that teddynettles ? Was neber sure if they were real or my parents invented them to stop us whiningLamium album ?
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the cure for jaggy nettles. 🙂
Nope that's bollocks.
Lamium album ?
Am aware of their work, but they weren't there!
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nope it works. 🙂
If the nettles are flowering they don't sting. Little white flowers.
Edit: a quick google suggests ive been wrong for 40 years
No rash/lumps, no reaction at al
I don't get any visual sign that I've been stung. If get stung it's more of a 'vigorous tingle' than a painful stinging feeling.
I don't get any visual sign that I've been stung. If get stung it's more of a 'vigorous tingle' than a painful stinging feeling.
So, if The Boy is similar, then that may explain the look at his arm (painful stinging feeling?) but do you have any ongoing itch?
I get an initial sting which tingles for an hour orb till bedtime if it's bad, but that's all.
Send to be an element of resistance though. My wife who grew up with no nettles is much more sensitive to them. Her sense of angry bemusement when she was first stung in our garden have me a chuckle. Not so the week of complaining about it.
You can build immunity, and lose it - and once gone, the sting is worse
nettle immunity is a thing
It's called not being a little ****ing pussy crybaby..
most males have it
Yunki is right ... My girlfriends dad has it in abundance, downside is I had to pull some nettles up earlier with no gloves on to try and keep up, my arm is still tingling!
I get a brief tingle, nothing more. Oddly, though, the tingle sometimes comes back in the bath that evening.
Did he hold his breath?
I think you're just going to have to donate him to medical science CFH. Its for the greater good.
Throw him in the brambles see which he prefers.
Report back to relevant thread.
I build up an immunity through the year, but even at the start of nettle season if I get stung it's only a tingle
If I consciously ignore a nettle sting it doesn't come up.
bencooper - MemberI get a brief tingle, nothing more. Oddly, though, the tingle sometimes comes back in the bath that evening
We [i]are[/i] still talking about nettles, right?
there are varieties of nettles that don't have any stinging hairs. google white dead nettles. it may well have been those
Hey, none of the laydees are immune to Nettles 😉
Hey, none of the laydees are immune to Nettles
That must be quite a virulent strain you're spreading. 🙂
"what do you buy for the man who has everything?'
"antibiotics"