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17th June 2017, 05:58 PM #1
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ant stingz
I was helping the young bloke on Thursday clearing some weeds from around his electric fence, I heard him swearing etc and thought nothing of it.
Later he said a "Jumping Jack" ( Myrmecia pilosula ) had gotten into his glove and gave him a pizzling (farmers term for a flogging) by the time he got the glove off, the offending beast had injected his venom several times.
Young bloke kept working, next day I rock to help him trim some trees, he showed me his hand and it was fairly swollen, but he used the chainsaw for about an hour and said his hand and arm were aching, his hand and arm had swollen more, you couldn't see his knuckles, he would have made a really bad gyno that day!
Onto some cream and antihistamine's, I remembered when we used to plant pine trees in the 80's, if you were bitten - which was a lot, you broke off a young bracken shoot and rubbed that onto the bite, seemed to work, must be something in the sap etc?
Does anyone here use special gloves, or a preventative measure to stop these little blighter's from putting their prickly bottoms into ones epidermis?
Stevo
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17th June 2017, 06:17 PM #2
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My mother used to use Reckitts Blue- a bloody long time ago - for ant and bee stings. I was told the other day that for bee stings the best thing is to cut an onion in half and rub the juice on the sting area and that may be worth a try.
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17th June 2017, 06:53 PM #3
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Similar to groverwa.
My Grandmother and Mother both used the "blue" (can't remember the name but it was in a little cloth bag and went in the copper to whiten cloths)
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17th June 2017, 07:30 PM #4
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Bates salve
Lappa you may then remember a cruel boil drawing salve that came in a stick form that was heated/ melted by a match, pushed onto a bit of cloth and while still very hot was placed on the offending boil or pusy sore and then wrapped in a length of cloth. Painful but it worked.
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17th June 2017, 11:59 PM #5
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When I was growing up, ammonia was used on the sting. Worked well from memory.
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18th June 2017, 04:44 PM #6
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Groverwa. I don't remember the name Bates Salve but remember the name "Drawing ointment " and "magnaplasm" , both being used to draw out splinters etc. They were like tar but I can't remember them being put on hot.
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18th June 2017, 10:50 PM #7
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I remember a product called 'Friars Balsam' being applied as a drawing ointment. It stank to high heaven but did seem to work. If a kid had some of this on him at school, he was fairly easy to locate!
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22nd June 2017, 10:05 AM #8
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Young bloke ended up putting some apple cider vinegar, that he had lying about on the bite area, that 2nd night and he was heaps better the following day.
I don't know if it helped or it was just time that helped?
Thanks for the replies.
Stevo
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