Katy Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Kiddos found "lilly of the valley" about to bloom in the gravel behind the shed. Suspicious, given the time of year and the fact that we're in Oklahoma, I went back there to find a giant patch of ragweed about to open, and pulled it all. Now my hands have an itchy rash. I don't know how it's possible to NOT be allergic to poison ivy but to have a contact allergy to ragweed, but apparently I do. If you decide to go weed your garden today, be sure to wear gloves if you get fall hay fever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi26 Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 :( That stinks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuvToRead Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Yes!! I get these little, itchy water blisters on my skin when I have been in contact with ragweed. It gets all oozy and is pretty disgusting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Yes. Ragweed wants to kill us all, with an almost conscious will, and it will do it in whatever way it thinks it can. This is a true fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El... Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 That's terrible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquirrellyMama Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 You may have solved a mystery for me. I was outside the other day and when I came in my hands itched like crazy. I now remember pulling a plant out of the garden, not knowing what it was. Looking at a picture of ragweed, now I know. I didn't get a rash, but my hand itched and burned for a while. Kelly 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom22ns Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 You may have solved a mystery for me. I was outside the other day and when I came in my hands itched like crazy. I now remember pulling a plant out of the garden, not knowing what it was. Looking at a picture of ragweed, now I know. I didn't get a rash, but my hand itched and burned for a while. Same here. It was last year and I had weeded an overgrown flowerbed. I got a rash on my hands and arms that looked like poison ivy, but there was NO poison ivy in the patch. I just looked up images of ragweed too and it was there... it is everywhere! From now on I'll be much more careful with ragweed, which is to say I'll wear gloves when pulling it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Ugh! Part of me is thankful to be living in the woods where I almost never bother to pull anything! This post did remind me of my only (well, second, if Popeye bath cream 30-something years ago counts) contact reaction, and I just looked it up to discover that hyacinth bulbs ARE toxic. That was a miserable day! What's weird (and relevant to this post) is that I had dh finish planting them with no reaction, yet he's *highly* sensitive to poison ivy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klmama Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 It's a common reaction to ragweed, as well as to goldenrod. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted September 18, 2015 Author Share Posted September 18, 2015 My rash didn't blister, and it did go away with benadryl and a shower. When I mentioned it to DH he said when he was a kid the farm boys he played with used to call it itchweed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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