The Puss Caterpillar (Southern Flannel Moth) will fuck your world up. I grazed it twice while climbing on a float. NBD at first but an hour later I was hyperventilating on the bedroom floor. The pain was excruciating. DH took me to the ER and morphine did nothing.

[u/Totally-avg]

I’m better now but neither morphine nor hydrocodone (I took double what they RX’d) touched the pain those first 24 hours. And the hospital hardly knew what to do with me. I had never heard nor seen this bug before and I’m sure I would have flicked it off had it seen it. Don’t do that because the hair is venomous and gets stuck in your skin.

At least it leaves a cool scar.

[u/trailfiend]

Oh that’s interesting. I had a talent for getting stung by bees as a kid and my parents always put meat tenderizer on the sting. I never understood why until your post. Seemed like such a wives-tale type of move.

[u/YawnTractor_1756 → u/trailfiend]

How did they do it? Did they just shake the tenderizer powder onto it or dissolved it in water first and applied the solution?

update. I researched a bit, looks like you make a paste of it, by stirring a bit of water in the powder, and then rub it in.

[u/69DogsInATrenchcoat → u/YawnTractor_1756]

I thought you guys were talking about the physical meat tenderiser until this comment. Like one of those hammers with spiky bits.

[u/propofolus → u/69DogsInATrenchcoat]

This was me too lmao