Does any one know if pinecones or pine sap is toxic to humans? I spent much of yesterday cutting up pine cones covered with hardened sap and then hot-glueing the petals to various objects for Christmas decorations.
This morning I woke up with my head, face and arms itching me to death. I looked in my mirror to see my eyes swollen shut, face and arms tomato red and was covered with tiny blisters. a trip to the emergency room got me some Benadryl and Steroids and I am doing much better now. I suspect that the pine cones, something on them, or else the hot-glue is the culprit causing my discomfort.

Glad to hear you are feeling better!

Rosin allergy

Colophony sensitivity

Thanks, Cricket! Now how do I do Christmas from now on?

Just think-you can look at those cretions yers from now and think that son of a ##### almost killed me! hope you are feeling better. It is no fun to be working with something that you think is completely innoncent and have it bite you on you hinny.

Learned something today

I'll have to remember that.

*****Stephanie

Wow..I am sensitive to alot of things, So I'll also have to remeber this.

It's probably the pine needles - you found yourself pulling them off, right?

I have mostly pines and maples out there and never run out of pinecones for filling in my circles.

When I clean them up, I pull out the pine needles - I find my exzema breaks out when I handle those.

No - I'm not wearing gloves!