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Post by LizaRakovic on Sept 14, 2015 10:09:24 GMT
I have just seen this shared on Facebook
David Pannell 15 hrs · ** RAGWORT WARNING ** Please please ensure you wear gloves when pulling ragwort from your fields. A customer's friend has just been diagnosed with liver damage (rarely drinks and doesn't smoke) and it has been put down to pulling ragwort with her bare hands. She is only18 years old but has had horses since she was little and now has to take medication for the rest of her life!! Stay safe Best wishes Michelle and Dave x
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Post by viking on Sept 14, 2015 11:15:10 GMT
A timely warning. Know of one person hospitalised similarly so it's not unknown.
Please folks wear gloves and don't pull in wet conditions or using damp or wet gloves. Toxin is more easily absorbed apparently through damp skin . Keep safe everyone.
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Post by norwalk on Sept 14, 2015 12:40:09 GMT
Thanks for sharing. I always use gloves now (the rubber palmed builders type), after some years ago pulling ragwort and my ring finger swelled quickly (luckily I took my wedding ring off very rapidly) - it was like a ballon and very sore for days. I was fortunate not to be more seriously affected.
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Post by judyh on Sept 14, 2015 18:15:01 GMT
I have a weed puller. It may not remove all the root but you don't have to touch the ragwort. I uaually spray it to kill it . I then coat the leaves in creosote to stop it being eaten but not been able to do it since July - hence the use of the tool. It's a Fiskars Weed Puller.
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Post by Alarming on Sept 17, 2015 23:52:12 GMT
It's scary how so many are unaware of the dangers of Ragwort to people. A few years my partner and I felt the need to stop the car and explain this to a young mum. She was picking arms full of the stuff from a roadside verge with her two young children. She was totally unaware of what damage it could do and thought she was just picking pretty flowers with her children. I am not much for interfering with peoples activities but just couldn't live with that one. She was really upset and couldn't understand why there was no public warning of this or why the council would let it grow so freely (she wasn't a horsey person)
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Post by diadem on Oct 6, 2015 7:45:17 GMT
We took on the legacy of the dreaded ragwort when the bypass came to town, back in south Wales. We didn't that've it before that, they bring I. Soil from all over the place seeds get in treads on wagons, etc etc, and then they have the capacity to fine you, differs county to county. Some are more clued up than others. We always used rubber gloves with work gloves over the top.
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