sheep dip poisoning

[rhuvid]

hi, 29 yr old (30nxt month) fit an healthy farmer. took rough on monday thinking it was just 2nd day of hangover after a heavy Sat night. but havent been able to get out the house since. Aching all over, shivering 1 minute, sweating the next. No appetite. Headaches, dizzy an just sleeping alot. And terrible diarria. Doctor isnt beening much help over the phone. Anyone had it on here. Thanks

 

[Still Farming]

What have you been doing,done,taken or inhaled different to normal or other days,years possibly???

 

[Badshot]

It's covid you clown.

 

[puppet]

Get yourself onto the website or phone number for a test asap and isolate your household meantime

 

[Shutesy]

hi, 29 yr old (30nxt month) fit an healthy farmer. took rough on monday thinking it was just 2nd day of hangover after a heavy Sat night. but havent been able to get out the house since. Aching all over, shivering 1 minute, sweating the next. No appetite. Headaches, dizzy an just sleeping alot. And terrible diarria. Doctor isnt beening much help over the phone. Anyone had it on here. Thanks

Assume your in the UK? Have you worked with sheep dip lately, did anything happen while you were using it like inhalation etc? I would have said if you had been poisioned somehow you might be throwing up. From what symptoms you have listed and whats going on in this country atm I would get a COVID 19 test asap, especially if you have been out socialising recently.

 

[Still Farming]

Whole story needed ,??

 

[Fendt516profi]

Hardly gonna be dip poisoning he hasn't even mentioned dipping any sheep

 

[rhuvid]

sorry for not giving enough info. struggling to concentrate. yes i was out contract dipping 2 dyas last week an the week before. done quite alot of dipping over last coule of yrs as mate runs a mobile dipper.

 

[Lazy Eric]

Sounds like it could be a kind of poisoning... years ago a spent a day knapsack spraying with MCPA and had virtually the same symptoms as you, lasted about 5 days... won’t be doing that again..
As said above I would definitely get a Covid 19 test done to be sure..

 

[deleted user 837354]

Could be a wide range of things. Serious bout of stomach flu will do that to you, I had it once and I woke up passed out looking at the bathroom ceiling one morning.

 

[Still Farming]

What ru like now?

 

[cider_eater]

Suspicious

 

[rhuvid]

Update. After taking ill on the Monday I was in bed till the Thurs. Couldn’t face eating, just drinking water. No spewing, but the sh1!s. Went for Covid test on the Fri an was clear. Had some homeopathic stuff on the Fri night, was already feeling tad better. Managed to get out on Sat an do light work. Now Weds an I’ve spent most of the day working with sheep. Talking dirty lambs an mineral drench. Feeling very luck I got better so quick after being so unwell. I wish I was able to fully know what made me so rough.

 

[Still Farming]

Stay awsy from dip possibly?
Maybe a" cumulative effect ',as done over few weeks etc???

 

[deleted user 837354]

If this was a genuine reaction to sheep dip, the symptoms would happen very very quickly, like in minutes after first being exposed. Some people do not react well to certain chemicals, for example I do not react well to the active ingredient in spot on cat and dog treatments. If I touch it, I know about it within 20 minutes.

 

[J 1177]

Just seen this thread. I had exactly the same Simptoms in the last two weeks of August plus it set my ibs off which was nice. Never felt so I'll. Lost a stone in weight (iv put it back on now)

 

[xmilkr]

Thought the organophosphate in dips was banned years ago, terrible stuff, l had problems with the same stuff in warble fly dressing back in the eighties, suffered a stiff back days after using it, a week later l could not climb in and out of milking pit. on the floor six months could not climb the stairs for a year, lost my memory for quite a while, still have problems but can now blame my age.