Tips For Dealing With Poison Ivy

[staylor26]

I'd call Batman. He has a lot of experience with her.

[cabletech94]

Too many responses, didn’t read em all.
Go to a doctor, walk in care, whatever. Get a steroid shot. Gone the next day. Poison ivy, oak, sumac, all is just the worst. You shouldn’t have waited so long to ask CP. Also, wash any clothes that may have made contact. Had a doctor friend who got ivy a year later after setting on the same blanket from a year before. Yikes!!
Good luck.

[phisherman]

I always used a spray called Ivy Dry. It kills the itch and dries out the rash and then once the rash really dries out, the spray will do this dual cold/burn thing that feels really awesome.

[Eureka]

I'm glad I don't get affected by that stuff.

Out at the river one day I rubbed poison oak leaves all over my arms in front of everyone claiming I didn't get it. Well a few hours later after some drinking I get into an altercation with a classmate and it ends with me holding him in a choke hold. He was in the ER a few days later with poison Ivy all over but it was the worst on his neck. I had no reaction to it at all.

[crayzkirk]

Originally Posted by Eureka

I'm glad I don't get affected by that stuff.

Out at the river one day I rubbed poison oak leaves all over my arms in front of everyone claiming I didn't get it. Well a few hours later after some drinking I get into an altercation with a classmate and it ends with me holding him in a choke hold. He was in the ER a few days later with poison Ivy all over but it was the worst on his neck. I had no reaction to it at all.

When I was about 12, I had a friend that told me he wasn't allergic to poison ivy and rubbed it all over himself. The results were not good. My own experience has been that my reaction is variable, sometimes, I don't react at all and others it's a shit storm.

I've used Calagell successfully. It's most important to get rid of the oils before your body reacts to them.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by crayzkirk

When I was about 12, I had a friend that told me he wasn't allergic to poison ivy and rubbed it all over himself. The results were not good. My own experience has been that my reaction is variable, sometimes, I don't react at all and others it's a shit storm.

I've used Calagell successfully. It's most important to get rid of the oils before your body reacts to them.

I've never had poison ivy. I have done the rub the leaf all over my body and have never gotten it.

[BWillie]

I find not hitting my golf ball into the shit helps. Or wearing pants.

[philfree]

Originally Posted by BWillie

I find not hitting my golf ball into the shit helps. Or wearing pants.

If my ball ends up in tall grass/weeds I don't go in after it. Screw that! Just hit it in the fairway. I learned at an early age to keep my fair haired, fair skinned ass out of the weeds in the summer. If I want to get off the path I wait till after the first frost.

[tooge]

Epsom salt bath works well. Also a salve of wild plantain leaves, salt, water rubbed on will stop itching

[scho63]

"You can look but you better not touch, POISON IIIIIIVEEE, POISON IIIIIIIVEEE"

[BEAVER]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

Anyone have any good advice?

Been battling this shit for over a week, every time it starts looking/feeling like its going away it comes roaring right back... the more calamine lotion I put on it, the worse it seemingly gets

Even have this shit on my junk

I'm considering scratching all of it wide open raw, then dousing it all with rubbing alcohol... but thats gonna burn like hell

Wear some thin cotton gloves on your hands when you sleep - or socks - or whatever. it will keep you from inadvertently scratching and spreading it other places - like your wiener.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by BEAVER

Wear some thin cotton gloves on your hands when you sleep - or socks - or whatever. it will keep you from inadvertently scratching and spreading it other places - like your wiener.

Scratching it does not make it spread. It can cause more irritation and can lead to infection but it doesn't make the poison ivy/oak/sumac spread.

[BEAVER]

Originally Posted by penguinz

Scratching it does not make it spread. It can cause more irritation and can lead to infection but it doesn't make the poison ivy/oak/sumac spread.

If you scratch it then touch elsewhere - does it not (potentially) transfer? I always thought it did.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by BEAVER

If you scratch it then touch elsewhere - does it not (potentially) transfer? I always thought it did.

Only way would be if you haven't washed the oils off since exposure. Only the oils cause outbreaks. Not the fluid from blisters.