Stinging nettles - best remedy

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What is the best thing to put on stinging nettle stings? Thanks!

Dock leaves, piriton, chamomile cream, anti-histamine cream? Any of those should help. The pain is annoying but does go off after a bit.

Dock leaves, natural, free and best

Doc leaves, they grow right next to the nettles usually.

Doc leaves.

In my experience, if you crumple the dock leaves and then rub the resulting juice on the nettle stings it does help quite a lot 😊

Another vote for dock leaves, nature's antidote to nettle stings.

If you are at home, wash well, and then either a cool bath with a load of bicarb in, or a paste made of bicarb and water.

If you are still out and about, rinse as well as you can, antihistamine if you've got any (cream or tablet), and keep it cool.

Calamine lotion. I never found dock leaves very good. I once fell off a wall as a young child into a patch of stinging nettle with shorts and t shirt on. I was about 4 but never forgot it. My mum has to douse me with cool water and put calamine all over me. I remember her saying to the woman in the local shop what had happened as I couldn’t walk very well but we had to pick up my older brother from school!

Anthisan cream - also excellent for wasp stings

Running water washes the little stingy hairs away.

Ice

Dock leaves are best - Mother Nature's remedy and all that. If that's not an option, ice, as someone said (or frozen peas...) or aloe vera gel.

nothing.
ime the itch will stop after a couple of minutes.

Aloe Vera is brilliant, when I was a dinner lady used to carry a small lip balm size tube of the stuff.

I use ice personally.

I thought dock leaves had been scientifically proven not to work?

I got covered in stings last weekend. I put something I use on the horses called Udder Cream on it and it soothes it wonderfully. It's a cream originally designed to soothe cow's teats! It contains aloe Vera and tea tree oil plus other soothing remedies. It seems to work well on my dog's allergic itches too.

I got nettle stings while staying with DH before we were married. He had nothing useful in his bathroom cabinet so in desperation I tried rubbing toothpaste on it to see what would happen. To my amazement it worked a treat. Took the edge off the stinging until I could get some Anthisan.

It was Arm & Hammer bicarbonate whitening toothpaste. Not sure if all toothpaste works or just that one.

Wipe with vinigar in one direction to remove the tiny hair that attache then apply germolene

Plantain ( either sort) works far better than dock.

why do you even need treatment? the sing go away on their own quite quickly, don't they?

I got stung by a nettle on Friday and it was really painful! Rather than the discomfort go away in a few minutes like normal it was still painful and I still had the raised white lumps when I went to bed 12 hours later! I washed it and put hydrocortisone cream on it and it was fine the following day.

Doc leaves. They grow with nettles.

If you pick a few big leaves and rip them up several times so they are leaking, you can scrub the plant juice onto the sting. It goes immediately.

I don’t think the sting does go away that quickly. It leaves a king of buzzy, pins and needles type feeling that is slightly annoying.

A bit of the science is at www.compoundchem.com/2015/06/04/nettles/...