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Old 05-04-2005, 05:16 PM
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Default Help needed for stinging nettle rash???

My boy has just come head first off his motorbike into stinging nettles, anyone know anything to make the swelling,itching and pain go?
Old 05-04-2005, 05:19 PM
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Theres some cream used for wasp and bee stings which works!!

Can't remember what it is called but its a white tube with a picture of a bee on it if I remember correctly!
Old 05-04-2005, 05:24 PM
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'Take a dock leaf, scrunch it up a little and spit on it and wipe on the sting. Either that or vinegar, if you are near home.'
Old 05-04-2005, 05:29 PM
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best way bar none, bit of bicarbonate of soda, TINY bit of water, mix into a paste and spread it on and leave it til it dries, cracks and falls off by itself
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doc leaves will help M8
Old 05-04-2005, 05:56 PM
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Trouble is he is only just 3 and he wont leave something like bicarb on, it seems to be getting better now, he just says it itches, tried the dock leaf
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your 3 year old has a motorbike?! cool!!
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this him?

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^^^
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i heard piss is good
so go piss on the poor little fooker,lol
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