Stinging nettle of the vicious kind :/

Grasp the nettle! Well, if you can avoid the leaves it may work.Wear gloves for ALL gardening is my motto. You never know where the cat's been.

thanks thatbgs, DH says you've described me to a T! What poor unsuspecting creature or hideously vicious flora were you grasping ( I dare not ask what part of its anatomy if fauna ) ?

Tried everything except a G&T and it feels like when you get an electric shock or static shock, but nonstop.

Daft bat indeed!

I'd give the bowl of cold water a go.
We used to use a docken leaf.

I've never found the grasping firmly theory to work in practice. Even if it worked where I was grasping the beast, it would swing around some of its ungrasped parts and stab me.

So here's me response, loopy: yer daft bat!

Hope it eases soon. Do you have any piriton in the house?

Ouch ! If I were you I'd wrap my hand in cling film for a while. The same way you treat burns.
Of course this may well make it worse but I'd give it a go.
Alternatively sit with my hand in a bowl of water as cold as I could take it.

I have to say that the air turned somewhat blue.... I've never had a reaction like this before, it was such a titchy plant! My whole hand's gone red and it's tingling like mad rather than itching.
Most odd.

I think I must be almost (but not quite) immune to stinging nettles as we have so many here and Fen nettles are lethal. The stinging then tingling seems to last for hours.

No remedy to recommend I'm afraid.

DH usually pulls them out yelling, 'Don't you argue with me, you b****rd!'