Fell into stinging nettles !

[VictoriaBun]

So on a walk today, I fell into a large clump of stinging nettles.
We were on a footpath in the middle of nowhere so it was a good hour or so before we got back to the car.
Came home and put my arm in cold water as I seem to have a rather violent reaction to them . I've also taken antihistamine tablet , had a cool shower and put on hydrocortisone cream ( I googled it and all of them were suggested ! )
The reaction has gone down now but it's still burning and stings like hell ! Any other suggestions ?

I'm thinking of pain killers , thanks for the suggestions - it's blooming horrible !

[quote Horehound]@MattBerrysHair it's not a myth. Sounds like you haven't even tried it so what do you know?[/quote]
Who's pissed on your chips? What a bizarre assumption to make considering there probably isn't a person alive in the UK who hasn't tried it at some point! I'm a gardener so get stung several times every year and dock leaves never make a difference. OP has done everything I would normally do to treat the rash already.

You poor thing!
I fell and sat in a patch of nettles once. Dock leaves did bugger all on me, so maybe they work on some people better than others?
You've done all the right things and been given the right advice. I just wanted to say that Dock leaves are not always the cure!

Calamine lotion. Or Savlon.

Painkillers taken, Sodium Bicarb paste on - still stinging .

I second calamine lotion and wet oats in a towel.

Found this:

If you really want to neutralise the effect of the nettle sting’s acid and dock leaves don’t work, try treating it with soap, milk or a dilute solution of baking soda, all of which are alkaline.

I didn't know dock leaves were a placebo either!

The doc leaf thing is not a myth.

You need to scrumple them up good to get them mushy, then rub them on the stings. Then strap them around the stings with a bandage. You don't just rub them on and think job done.

Just like you don't just rinse a burn for a few seconds under a tap.

@gamerchick I googled and it seems it is a myth. Or at any rate they're not the miracle cure they're made out to be. They're acidic, just like nettles, so unlikely to help more than any other random leaf.

Meh, I've tried and tested it more than once. I prefer to believe my own skin rather than a Google that says it appears to be a myth.

But whatever, I'm really not arsed. Im not stung.

Calamine lotion helps. I feel as a young child with shorts and t shirt on into really tall patch of nettle beside railway tracks. They are always really big there....I must have been about 4 years old and went home screaming my head off. My mum rinsed me down with cool leather to take any little fibres out of my skin and put calamine on. I walked like a robot for two days.

Dock leaves have never worked ever and I got stung a lot as we lived next to woodland that had wild nettles everywhere and used to try duck leaves to no avail. Calamine helped.

Be ready for a surprise resurgance when you have a shower in the morning... sorry!

We used dock leaves for nettle stings when I was young. We didn't crush the dock leaves, we spat plenty of saliva on them and used them like that. I remember it being quite effective.