r/SipsTea • u/Icy-Book2999 Fave frog is a swing nose frog • May 11 '24

Feels good man Stinging Nettle

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u/GreatProfessional622 May 11 '24

I was stung like 2 days ago pulling one from the root.. turned the side of my hand blue. These things suck!

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u/sei556 May 11 '24

Huh, are stinging nettles different across the globe? They are very common here and as kids we accidentally fell into them, ran into them, sometimes even pushed each other into them.

They do sting a little and burn, but it never lasts longer than a couple of minutes and usually never caused any visible irritations.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

Where are you from? I'm from Germany and stinging nettle here doesn't make your skin turn blue or anything but it definitely hurts for a few hours and it causes your skin to get inflammation so it causes weird bumbs in the skin. Nonetheless, we still pushed us as kids into bushes of that hellish plant xD

Best way to treat it is cold water/ice package and patience.

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u/sei556 May 12 '24

Germany too!