Something to do.
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I suppose so, yeah
The real answer is I had to go and get some beer barrels from round the back of my work and there are stinging nettles there and i slipped a bit and my legs went in the stinging nettles and I was wearing shorts. Happy now?
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Not at all
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interesting how people don’t like getting stung by nettles but they do like spicy food
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"Thick nettle patches can also be a symptom of air pollution boosting soil nitrogen levels, with an impact Plantlife’s Trevor Dines likens to “nutrient-rich junk food”.
Ffs. I love thick nettle patches.
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somebody should do a study where they call them spicy nettles and…say…stinging curry and see how people react.
“oh I just brushed a spicy nettle, delicious!”
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Do kids have a stronger pain sensation or is it partly a fear and intensity of unknown sensation/how long something will last? Is part of what we consider pain cultural/social?
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Nettle therapy is apparently a thing to cure hayfever. Don’t know if that works, but i can attest to it not working as a sobering agent when very drunk, despite what I thought at the time)
I can’t remember if I’ve passed on the lies to my kids, but yeah basically they’re an effective distraction (like pretty much 99% of parenting lol)
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makes sense
I’ve interpreted the suggestion as being for pain equivalent to nettle stings (ie low level temporary pain which will pass naturally with no after effects) and also as applicable to children because nettle stings are such a common childhood mishap. In which scenarios a medicinal remedy would likely not have any benefits over the placebo as either way the pain is gone quickly with no after-effects; I’d prefer to give my kids the placebo effect of the dock leaf because I prefer not to medicate unnecessarily.
As an aside, of all the lies we pass down the generations, this is one I really get behind, because it encourages kids to bond with nature. I’ll continue to mislead them and myself about nettles and dock leafs if it engages them for longer on woodland walks!
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They have less err, resilience I guess. So will cry/scream when in pain regardless whether it’s a broken leg or a bumped knee.
As we grow up we stop making such a fuss, generally.
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I got stung by a wasp last year in the dark and it was really different to what I remembered. Much more intense! I reached out to put something in the bin and initially I thought I had stabbed my hand with something and was expecting blood.
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I think there may be different sensitivities at early age, e.g. sound for sure. But a lot of it will be calibration. How a child sees adults reacting to their injury informs their reaction hugely
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I don’t even know what a dock leaf looks like.
yeah I remember being hurt as a kid and a lot of it was the frustration and impatience of waiting for it to end, time seemed to go a lot slower as a kid too so maybe to them it just does seem like a sting lasts for a really really long time
it’s just a really big leaf
Sounds scary
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In primary school one time during some game a boy’s skull crashed into my temple while we were running around. The deputy head took out a 2p coin and pressed it against my temple and said the copper would help. I was probably concussed ffs.
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