Ever heard of it? I hadn't, before this morning.
Yesterday we were outside playing in the back yard. After a bit, Ruthie started complaining about her hands being really itchy. We looked at them, saw nothing. But she had been playing with caterpillars, holding them and carrying them around, so we figured it was hair from them or something. We washed her hands with the hose. That helped for a little while, but they started itching again.
This morning she was still complaining about them being itchy and I saw little bumps along the backs of her thumbs. Later, I found a red bumpy rash on the backs of her hands and on her lower arms.
Josh got online and started searching and found "caterpillar itch". Basically it's a rash, similar to poison oak or poison ivy, as a reaction to poisonous caterpillars.
New rule for outside? Look but do NOT touch the caterpillars!
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