Crimson Bottlebrush and allergies?

[Xilander Xinandu]

G'day,

does anyone here have any experience with allergic symptons after
working with flourishing Crimson Bottlebrush trees?

I read about symptoms similar to hay fever when sniffing the flowers,
but I am more wondering about a large rash after skin contact with the
tree or its flowers. Is that something that others have experienced?

- Xilander

[rai...@mailinator.com]

Never with a callistemon, but I am allergic to grevilleas, as are hundreds of thousands of people.

[Chookie]

In article <nkncg4552oqujue3l...@4ax.com>,
rai...@mailinator.com wrote:

> > I read about symptoms similar to hay fever when sniffing the flowers,
> > but I am more wondering about a large rash after skin contact with the
> > tree or its flowers. Is that something that others have experienced?
>
> Never with a callistemon, but I am allergic to grevilleas, as are hundreds of
> thousands of people.

Most likely it was a grevillea or you met a caterpillar.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

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[janicem...@gmail.com]

Probably pointless to post in a thread this old, but what the heck. I grew up in central California, and there were a lot of crimson bottlebrush trees in my city. The only time in my life that I have ever broken out in a large blistery rash was on two separate occasions when I was exposed to pollen from these trees. On the first occasion, I stood directly under one for 20-30 minutes, waiting for a bus, and on the second occasion, I brushed up against a flower cluster on a short tree that was overgrowing a narrow path. On both occasions, the trees were in full bloom. I think it's the pollen that makes me break out. I found this thread while looking for information on similar plants that I might be allergic to, since I moved to a very different growing zone a while ago, and haven't thought to look before. I don't know if this is helpful, but it can be a relief to know that you're not the only person with that kind of reaction.

[swall...@gmail.com]

Yes, I have an allergy to Bottlebrush Trees, I have only just discovered this and I am quite shocked about this as I have been blaming my raised very red itchy, inflamed skin on insect bites as the beginning of hives always start with spots like bites. I put the Bottlebrush to the test by deliberately rubbing a flower against the inside of my forearm to test if there is a reaction and sure enough next morning I had very itchy, red, inflamed hives!

[news13]

On Tue, 12 May 2015 02:09:19 -0700, swallis753 wrote:

> On Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 7:54:59 AM UTC+10, Xilander Xinandu

are youabsolutely sure the plant is infested with some mite or such.?

[~misfit~]

Once upon a time on usenet swall...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 7:54:59 AM UTC+10, Xilander Xinandu
> wrote:

> Yes, I have an allergy to Bottlebrush Trees, I have only just
> discovered this and I am quite shocked about this as I have been
> blaming my raised very red itchy, inflamed skin on insect bites as
> the beginning of hives always start with spots like bites. I put the
> Bottlebrush to the test by deliberately rubbing a flower against the
> inside of my forearm to test if there is a reaction and sure enough
> next morning I had very itchy, red, inflamed hives!

You send three replies within five minutes to a post that's seven years old?

OK.

Sorry to hear of your allergy.
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM*."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)
(*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

[SG1]

"~misfit~" <shaun.at...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Once upon a time on usenet swall...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 7:54:59 AM UTC+10, Xilander Xinandu
>> wrote:
>>> G'day,
>>>
>>> does anyone here have any experience with allergic symptons after
>>> working with flourishing Crimson Bottlebrush trees?
>>>
>>> I read about symptoms similar to hay fever when sniffing the flowers,
>>> but I am more wondering about a large rash after skin contact with
>>> the tree or its flowers. Is that something that others have
>>> experienced?
>>>
>>> - Xilander
>>
>> Yes, I have an allergy to Bottlebrush Trees, I have only just
>> discovered this and I am quite shocked about this as I have been
>> blaming my raised very red itchy, inflamed skin on insect bites as
>> the beginning of hives always start with spots like bites. I put the
>> Bottlebrush to the test by deliberately rubbing a flower against the
>> inside of my forearm to test if there is a reaction and sure enough
>> next morning I had very itchy, red, inflamed hives!
>
> You send three replies within five minutes to a post that's seven years
> old?

Still on a server after 7 years wow...

[~misfit~]

Once upon a time on usenet SG1 wrote:
> "~misfit~" <shaun.at...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:mjbjj6$m2t$1...@dont-email.me...
>> Once upon a time on usenet swall...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 7:54:59 AM UTC+10, Xilander Xinandu
>>> wrote:
>>>> G'day,
>>>>
>>>> does anyone here have any experience with allergic symptons after
>>>> working with flourishing Crimson Bottlebrush trees?
>>>>
>>>> I read about symptoms similar to hay fever when sniffing the
>>>> flowers, but I am more wondering about a large rash after skin
>>>> contact with the tree or its flowers. Is that something that
>>>> others have experienced?
>>>>
>>>> - Xilander
>>>
>>> Yes, I have an allergy to Bottlebrush Trees, I have only just
>>> discovered this and I am quite shocked about this as I have been
>>> blaming my raised very red itchy, inflamed skin on insect bites as
>>> the beginning of hives always start with spots like bites. I put the
>>> Bottlebrush to the test by deliberately rubbing a flower against the
>>> inside of my forearm to test if there is a reaction and sure enough
>>> next morning I had very itchy, red, inflamed hives!
>>
>> You send three replies within five minutes to a post that's seven
>> years old?
>
> Still on a server after 7 years wow...

Usenet as it's supposed to be - not the version Google is pre-empting,
removing the technology hurdle of finding a server and setting up an account
and packaging for the hoi polloi.

Google have your usenet, email, phone and/or tablet operating system (?),
youtube uploads, web search history and geographical search history. How do
you quantify a soul? When is TMI actually TMI?

[SG1]

"~misfit~" <shaun.at...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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I do not use Google in it's various (nepharius) forms. Unfortuately I was
given an iphone4.
Don't use utube and use duckduckgo as my search engine.

[jenandb...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 7:54:59 AM UTC+10, Xilander Xinandu wrote:

I have several of this species, and if I work in the garden in that area, or brush past them, I break out in hives, extremely painful and last for up to 10 days. My 2nd last episode was a trial after the 1st reaction cleared up. Sure enough I broke out again, currently recovering.

[elesha...@gmail.com]

I have had a severe reaction today. I was emptying a garden bag with bottlebrush offcuts. Any pieces of exposed skin broke out in painful, and very itchy, hives. Similar to post above.

[tibeach...@gmail.com]

I had a bad reaction to the red flower. A piece was in the hammock chair which I sat in for a long while. I later had burning in the shower, 4 little red marks and pain. I thought it was a bug bite and tried to squeeze the stinger. By the next morning it was oozing, red and had a red ring around it. Size of a quarter. Plus blisters started forming around it. After a week I was put on antibiotics but no help then prescription creams & cortisone. After a month its is going away. Very painful and hard to get rid of. Who knew? Thanks for this or I would still be wondering what happened.

[Neal Beste]

[Neal Beste]

On Saturday, May 9, 2020 at 11:25:34 AM UTC-7, tibeach...@gmail.com wrote:

> I had a bad reaction to the red flower. A piece was in the hammock chair which I sat in for a long while. I later had burning in the shower, 4 little red marks and pain. I thought it was a bug bite and tried to squeeze the stinger. By the next morning it was oozing, red and had a red ring around it. Size of a quarter. Plus blisters started forming around it. After a week I was put on antibiotics but no help then prescription creams & cortisone. After a month its is going away. Very painful and hard to get rid of. Who knew? Thanks for this or I would still be wondering what happened.

Me too! I couldn't understand why I was getting this rash on my arms on occasion. Last week I thinned out my overgrown bottle brush trees again and within 36 hours started with the itch. Now on day 7 it drives me crazy. I have used Cortisone 10 and CBD cream not at same time. The CBD has a terpene product in it and provides a cooling relief feeling for a while. Neither lasts more than 4 hours. Next will try Benadryl ointment.
Now that I know...wear long sleeves and wash up immediately after touching.

[D MOTORS ZA TM]

well i think i have a bottlebrush allergie because when i go to a certain place where there's a bottlebrush tree my eye gets red so i think i'm allergic to this tree

[Mike Maguire]

Interesting to read this thread. Recently found the back of my hands covered in small red marks of various sizes following lifting my relatively small bottlebrush plant up to guage the inner pot's soil moisture. Its recently started coming into bloom and I've been lifting it by putting my hands down into the bush and grasping the thickest branches near the stem. As it happens this means the back of my hands brushing against the blooms. Mmmm ... so a possible cause ?

[Zoe A George]

New house, new carpark, my car is parked under a Bottlebrush which is shedding its red spikes profusely so that I use a cover on the car. Today is the second time I have had to spend time under that tree, and today is the second time that my eyes are so sore, itchy. FAR worse than hayfever. Hence I Googled, and found all of the comments from everyone else.