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Old 07-21-2015, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Doro22 View Post
My husband & I were pulling some weeds in the beds around trees about3 months ago and got terrible stinging on hands. We are pretty sure it was stinging nettles. Ouch!!
As a kid we had lots of nettles on our property. They would bite like a mosquito. Leave a welt. We used rubbing alcohol on them and it helped a lot. I would scratch them then put on the alcohol. It would burn really bad but they would stop itching.