Mowed fields all day, ended up at emergency clinic

[Jstpssng]

At least you had a quick recovery. Obviously you contacted something you're allergic to. As somebody already pointed out, your body's resistance changes over time so things which never bothered you before did this time. You didn't get stung by a hornet, did you?

 

[Hay Dude]

At least you had a quick recovery. Obviously you contacted something you're allergic to. As somebody already pointed out, your body's resistance changes over time so things which never bothered you before did this time. You didn't get stung by a hornet, did you?

No, no stings. I have been bitten by Black Widows twice and had Lyme disease.
Black widow bites look bizarre, but it turns your skin purplish black.

 

[k0ua]

It was on my trunk, my inner thighs....places covered by clothing. It covered 40% of my body in an hour. It’s 95% gone now. I’ve worked outside for 40 years. This was not poison ivy.

Well queen anne's lace is definately on the list to cause these rashes. It is also photo activated.

 

[5030]

So yesterday was a day like any other warm season day. Its either farming hay, mowing fields, stacking barns, trucking hay.
This time it was field mowing. I had 4 fields to mow from 3 to 15 acres each. Got started at 6:30 AM and all went well. As I was finishing up the 4th field, I noticed my arms were itchy. I was in my Kubota M-126X and pulling my Deere CX-15 mower and theres a lot of dust & chaff floating around. Even though I was in a cab, I opened the doors to get in and out several times. By about 5:30, I drove back to the shop and put everything away.
I was stunned to see my arms were covered with what looked like hives or some kind of allergic reaction, which I have NEVER had. I thought it was some kind of poison ivy or sumac, etc.
It was actually growing while I was looking at my arms and legs. Then my left eye began to swell shut! The red patches turned to felt lumps with an almost liquid filled appearance. YUK
Jumped in my truck and drove straight to the local clinic. They took me in quickly and ended up giving me a steroid shot and making me stay until about 7:30. Went home and showered and it began to subside. 90% of it was gone this morning. Now its all gone!!!
Called our dermatologist this morning and she is supposed to get back with me later.
I did not eat anything different, I did not use a different laundry detergent. Im very healthy overall and my wife calls me the town blacksmith :laughing:
But seriously, no medications or underlying conditions.
Any ideas what it might have been? Anyone else ever get a similar reaction?
I was thinking I mowed some kind of weed that reacted with my immune system.

When I'm chopping with my M 9 cab, I always have the ac on recirc and I run a charcoal filter in mine because I spray with it as well. Kubota sells 2 filters, the standard pleated paper one and a charcoal with pleated paper one. I run the combo filter and change it every year. Actually, I run it on recirc most of the time because the evaporator is such a PITA to clean and no matter how good you think the cab is sealed up, you still get dust and chaff in the evap. Been there, did that and it's no fun.

 

[Hay Dude]

Another thing that was freaking me out is my lips swelled up and went down quickly, too

 

[MossRoad]

It was on my trunk, my inner thighs....places covered by clothing. It covered 40% of my body in an hour. It痴 95% gone now. I致e worked outside for 40 years. This was not poison ivy.

Sounds definitely like hives and not poison ivy. You know what poison ivy rash looks like. I know what poison ivy rash looks like (Heck, I have some right now for past 2 weeks on inner arm and side.). Hives aren't anything like poison ivy rash.

Did you have any of the following? Take a lunch out to the field?

[FONT=&quot]The most common foods that cause hives are nuts, chocolate, fish, tomatoes, eggs, fresh berries, and milk. Fresh foods cause hives more often than cooked foods. Certain food additives and preservatives may also be to blame.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Drugs that can cause hives and angioedema include aspirinand other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications such as ibuprofen, high blood pressure drugs (ACE inhibitors), or painkillers such as codeine.[/FONT]

 

[5030]

I know about poison ivy too. I keep a bottle of Ivy Wash handy at the bathroom sink. Stuff works.

 

[kthompson]

First glad you are doing well. I took trash to our local recycling center late one Saturday and within two hours was in emergency room with similar symptoms. Doc said doubt you will ever know what caused this and never did. I am sure there was some chemical that had just been dumped into a container with enough dust in the air to be breathed in. But some food allergies can swell quick and be easy treated. Show helping sounds like a dust or something on your skin but popping up where cloths cover seems like something you ate. As has a few said, as we age our allergies often change. Why not call your local tv weather person and ask them if they track the local pollen types and levels and if there was something unusual on that day.

 

[two_bit_score]

It was on my trunk, my inner thighs....places covered by clothing. It covered 40% of my body in an hour. It痴 95% gone now. I致e worked outside for 40 years. This was not poison ivy.

That makes it sound like something ingested. Maybe even before you went to the fields that day. I hope your Doc can shed some light.


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[coobie]

It wouldn't be gone the next day... trust me on that one..

+1 on the Ivy