Nettle Stings

[PoCk0 40]

Does anyone know a good cure or prevention for nettle stings? Even though I avoid the nettles if I can, but my dog still comes back with lots of stings and doesn't settle for hours.

Cheers

[BIG ZOOK 5]

Does anyone know a good cure or prevention for nettle stings? Even though I avoid the nettles if I can, but my dog still comes back with lots of stings and doesn't settle for hours.

Cheers

NO prevention rubbing the affected area with (Rumex patientia) or dock leaf will ease the pain/inflammation.Viniger works to a lesser extent.

Edited February 18, 2011 by BIG ZOOK

[PoCk0 40]

Where can you get Rumex patientia?

[Guest paceandstamina]

Where can you get Rumex patientia?

 

big zook sells it £25 a bottle

[PoCk0 40]

Haha. Will have to see if I can find some of that in the garden

[BIG ZOOK 5]

Where can you get Rumex patientia?

from waste ground/verges and uncultivated allotments.It is a perrenial and dies off in the winter.Pick a few bags in the autum and freeze them in groups of 6 .We used to take a bag out with us and use it as required or throw it away.Now i know this sounds like pure crap .B i have seen some serious reactions on running dogs particulary thin coated greyhounds ,that have been in the nettle beds.

Edited February 18, 2011 by BIG ZOOK

[JPTfellterrier 65]

dock leaf......i kid i kid

[PoCk0 40]

Where can you get Rumex patientia?

from waste ground/verges and uncultivated allotments.It is a perrenial and dies off in the winter.Pick a few bags in the autum and freeze them in groups of 6 .We used to take a bag out with us and use it as required or throw it away.Now i know this sounds like pure crap .B i have seen some serious reactions on running dogs particulary thin coated greyhounds ,that have been in the nettle beds.

Yeah, thats the thing shes only got a really thin coat and she goes mental after being stung.

[lamping lurchers 34]

doesnt really seem to bother my dog ut thats prob cos he rough coated

[watchman 256]

doesnt really seem to bother my dog ut thats prob cos he rough coated

only seen them affected on their feet and they aint rough coated on their pads iv used piriton in the past to good affect

[hullhunter 219]

this dose not work but i was out ferreting with a mate and he got it pretty bad up both of his arms so i told him when he gets home to piss on the stung area and it will sort it out. so after been home for a few hours i rang him and asked him if his arms were ok he said he had tried pissing on his arms but it went every were but his arms so he had to wait till he needed to go again and do it in a bottle so he could pore it on but nothing happened. well i have never laughed so much in my life and to this day we still call him pissy.

[darbo 4,779]

all my ferreting is done in or around woodland. my ferreting dog a beddie suffers with stings to his feet quite badly at times when we get home. i was adviced to give small dose of piriton.

[watchman 256]

this dose not work but i was out ferreting with a mate and he got it pretty bad up both of his arms so i told him when he gets home to piss on the stung area and it will sort it out. so after been home for a few hours i rang him and asked him if his arms were ok he said he had tried pissing on his arms but it went every were but his arms so he had to wait till he needed to go again and do it in a bottle so he could pore it on but nothing happened. well i have never laughed so much in my life and to this day we still call him pissy.

think its an old trick that was done by military personel based overseas for a certain type of jellyfish sting,obviously taught to them by the locals of the region,the amonia in the piss relieves the sting,

[Neal 1,929]

I've always found it's the new growth that causes the biggest problems. They walk over it and the irritant goes into their pads and they then spend the rest of the day licking between their pads and ice skating all over the wooden floors in a vain effort to stop the tingling.

 

Even my kelpies occasionaly get it and they regularly walk and run over awful ground without any problems whatsoever. The only dog I've ever had which was completely impervious to nettles was a 3/4 beardie/border 1/4 collie but his coat was so thick that not even a heat seeking missile could have found its way in.

[ianh 83]

best thing is nettles themselves, they contain an antivenom type thing that relieves the sting better than anything else, when i was dead young about 5 or 6 we were at a pick your own place for strawbs and they had an adventure play area with a big zip line and a pool of water to drop into, i didnt dare let go went to the end of the zip line, hit the tyre and with the handle being wet just flew off the end into a huge patch of nettles taller than me, i only had my swimming trunks on and was screaming the whole place down, literally stung everywhere, anyways the farmer came out to see what was going on and he got loads of nettles (wearing gloves) smashed them up in a big pestle and mortar and my mum and dad rubbed the green goo all over me, worked a treat instant relief!

 

if its just a few stings you can carefully pick a couple of leaves and crush them between your fingers then rub it on, works well too.