In article ,
Sacha writes:
| On 1/10/07 15:44, in article , "Uncle
| Marvo" wrote:
|
| I have been stabbed by (I think) A dead Japonica. Again.
|
| Again, my arm has swollen up like a football.
|
| Does anyone know why this happens and what one should do about it (apart
| from spend half a day at the Doc's again, getting antibiotics)?
|
| Get rid of the japonica. I'm not joking. If you have that kind of allergic
| reaction and it's getting worse, not better, I'd avoid that particular plant
| like the plague.

Agreed. And antibiotics are precisely what you DON'T want to take
for such reactions - they aren't as harmful as when used to treat
snakebite, but are still not good.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.