Mowed fields all day, ended up at emergency clinic

[skipperbrown]

The fact you responded favorably and quickly to steroids implies it was an allergic reaction to something. Identifying the 'something' may be difficult. If your diet hadn't changed in the last 48 hrs and the only thing new is that you were mowing all day, it gives us a reasonable hypothesis that you reacted to something in the fields. Allergies come on after your body can no longer fight the allergen. So the fact you never had a reaction before is just the way allergies start. You need to be extremely careful about exposure in the future and ask your doctor if you should have a special Rx for immediate administration should it happen again. At the very least, get some Benadryl for your medicine cabinet. The problem with testing various substances like queen's lace and other types of vegetation to see if you react is you may get an uncontrollable response and end up in the ER or worse. Glad you are better so soon!

 

[5030]

it sounds like you need a hard cab to keep the weeds from getting to you!. it will help..

OP does.

 

[MossRoad]

Never knew queen anne's lace could affect some people. We used to pick the flowers each summer, put them in jars of water dyed different colors with food coloring, and watch them turn those colors. Then we could dry the colored flowers to use in arrangements.

 

[radios1]

Never knew queen anne's lace could affect some people. We used to pick the flowers each summer, put them in jars of water dyed different colors with food coloring, and watch them turn those colors. Then we could dry the colored flowers to use in arrangements.

some people have died from eating peanut butter, it depends on the specific person, people can be allergic to just about anything!..

 

[WillardinMaine]

Brown tailed moths up here in Maine can cause a reaction like that

 

[MossRoad]

...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.

Just out of curiosity, what did you eat that day?

I've read that about half of adults that have food allergies developed them as adults.

Read a story about a Dr. in his 40s having shrimp on an airliner over the Atlantic and had an allergic reaction. He'd eaten shrimp all his life. Now he has a shrimp allergy.

So, you may have developed an allergy to something you were never allergic to before. Hopefully it was a one-off event. I've had hives several times as an adult. No cause was found and they went away within hours.

As a kid, I had hives several times in a short time period and they determined I was allergic to fabric softener. Mom had to stop using it. I avoided it as an adult. But now we use fabric softener sheets and is doesn't seem to bother me. But I always wonder.

 

[Diggin It]

As a contractor, I've been bit by spiders a few times and your symptoms remind me of a spider bite more then anything else. Especially in the speed of the reaction and how quickly it went away.

There would still be a bite mark long after the rash/hives cleared.

 

[EddieWalker]

Maybe, but you would have to know where to look. The places that I've been bit swelled up almost instantly and became tender and it looked like a rash. I never saw any bite marks, and I never saw the spider. From what I read, and months later while talking to my doctor about it, I believe it was a spider bite. Same thing happened a few years later and then just a couple years ago. It goes away almost as fast as it appears the next day.

 

[/pine]

Almost all spiders are poisonous to some degree...some (and I don't mean the worst (widows, recluses' etc) create an open ulcer type of infliction that can last several weeks or even months...some just leave a tiny pin point mark that can be hard to see near the center of the inflammation...

The most curious part of the OP's ailment is the short duration...

 

[crashz]

Hay Dude - glad you are OK now. I wish I had something to offer, but like the rest here can't figure out what could have caused it. Strange.

But I'd give that tractor a thorough cleaning. Something inside or out messed with you.