Re: Allergic to daffodil bulbs
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Allergic to daffodil bulbs
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 23:45:53 EDT
In a message dated 5/26/00 4:19:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, eoneill@ibm.net
writes:
<< I have problems each year in the fall when I go into
the garden center to buy bulbs. Within minutes of starting to pick them
out, I itch all over my body. No visible rash, just the itching, that
eventually dies down after I leave the store. Formalin never occurred to
me, >>
Gerry, it may not be formalin in this case. Usually commercial bulbs were
hot water treated with a very small quantity of formalin the year before and
therefore have grown underground another year before you see them in the
garden centers. You may just be allergic to the bulbs themselves.
Bill Lee
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