Poison Ivy

[husky455rancher]

call the doctor and get some Prednisone . my wife gets it at least once a year really bad. those pills dry it up pretty fast.


on a side note i used to work with this old timer when i was 18. whenever he got poison ivy he used to wash his arms hands whatever in the safety clean tank at work lol. we all thoyht he was nuts but he swore it would dry it up in a day or so everytime. dunno what else it did to him but he said no more poison ivy.

 

[custom8726]

Like previously mentioned (TECNU) it works for me. I still get poison Ivy but it only lasts a couple days if I wash with TECNU for a day or 2.

 

[ents]

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There's a common native plant in the Northeast - you probably have it in MI, too - called jewel weed. ...

http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/hydro/jewelwed.htm

My contribution for the night.

Later,

 

[Zackman1801]

when ever i get it, which is almost every summer, it usually comes and stays for a few months (every time ive had it it seems to get into my blood stream and spread EVERYWHERE!) they give me some high strength steroids to take for a few weeks, when those are gone the bumps seem to go away for a few more weeks and i can go and roll around in it and wont get it, but then a few weeks of not being on the steroids it always comes back. havent got it this year yet but i expect its not too far off!

 

[ClimbinArbor]

Ok,here is some real world advice wear long sleeves and have on hand
a bucket of water and soap! Wash many times during the day and shake
the shirt a time or two per day. I don't get it much only if it gets it a scratch or on tender skin. I however know it can be washed off if done soon after contact. If you get a dose take the hottest shower you can as heat stops itching for a while after a hot shower! I hope this helped!

ive heard colder showers for this. the heat makes the oil from the poison ivy run easier and it gets into your pores like that.

I am sorta wandering if my tolerance to it has anything to do with
me getting spanked for chewing the leaves as a kid I
used to get spanked for eating all sorts of **** even them durn widow panes

now we know why your crazy enuf to do tree work, with all that lead paint in ya lmao

 

[ropensaddle]

ive heard colder showers for this. the heat makes the oil from the poison ivy run easier and it gets into your pores like that.



now we know why your crazy enuf to do tree work, with all that lead paint in ya lmao

Yes wash with cool water but if your itching rinse with the hottest
you can stand relief for a couple hours as the hot temps desensitize
your skin. I have done this with chiggars and it helps try it! Lead paint
aint too bad it is the fact I used to play with mercury too that gots me
wandering

 

[ClimbinArbor]

eww now that stuff will kill ya lol.

sounds alot like my childhood. running thru streams of toxic waste, bathing in turpentine, brushing my teeth clorox.

do you turn green and shiny in the dark too??

i also have 17 toes now, but that helps me with my balance while aloft lol

 

[cunrya]

My grandmother taught me this one and it really seems to work for me at least. When you know you've been in it wash with distilled vinigar. I carry a bottle in the truck and a roll of paper towels. Wipe off with it within an hour or so of contact and yet to get it.

Also, boot laces are what used to get me so I wipe my hands down after taking boots on or off as well.

 

[Wood Scrounge]

I have it from April until Nov almost every year, If I see a picture of it I get it. The only thing that gets rid of it after you have it is a methylprednisolone blister pack from the doctor. prevention is the key long sleeves and long pants. I found this stuff works really well if I know I have been exposed and I get to it within an hour or two. http://www.burtsbees.com/webapp/wcs...=-147&catalogId=10051&storeId=10001&langId=-1

 

[EdK]

There's a common native plant in the Northeast - you probably have it in MI, too - called

and another one: "sweet fern"!


http://www.naturespoisonivycure.com/

 

[abohac]

I'll try it all

OK boys, I appreciate the help. As I stated, I don't get it very easy anymore but I have to work in it this summer and I know I'm going to get it (from the mess I saw). Sounds like us guys in the midwest and east have a little more than the guys out west. I was hoping for a preventitive (and it sounds like there is one) and also something to get rid of it fast (or at least faster) with the Tecnu. I have always heard however that once it's in the bloodstream it must run it's course (the steroids just mask the symptoms). Anyway, thanks for the help.

 

[ClimbinArbor]

abohac

theres a preventitive solution you can cover yourself with available at Sherrill

 

[Sawyer Rick]

Old tale of an Ivy cure

Tecnu Soap works well. You want an old tale when I was a kid the old man who lived next door to us had gotten poision ivy so bad they said he had it internally also. The doctor told him to go home and eat a bowl of poision Ivy. He did and never again had poision ivy. Personally I wouldn't try this cure but I do remember it as a kid of about 12 or 13 and he lived thru it and as far as I know never had trouble with it again. But like I said personally I wouldn't try it, but then I don't like salad anyway. Longsleve shirts and antibacterial wipes are what I use the most.

 

[Zackman1801]

lol i seem to have jinxed myself. the night after i posted about always getting poison ivy i went to the river for a swim. i woke up this morning and now i have a rash on my leg and spots on my arms......i wonder what it could be?

 

[pdqdl]

Rhus tox: look on google

These are small sugar pills with a small amount of urushiol in them. Different strengths are available: start weak and work your way up. You swallow/dissolve in mouth; some people get relief of symptoms, some people become immune.

I buy them for my guys, and the bottles dissappear quick. No complaints yet. Doesn't work for everybody.

 

[ClimbinArbor]

kinda like taking small doses of poison to become immune to it.

i can dig that

 

[ropensaddle]

kinda like taking small doses of poison to become immune to it.

i can dig that

That would give merit to my leaf chewing I got whipped for :monkey:
My dad whipped me not so much for ivy but he was afraid I would
eat a death cap mushroom as he caught me eating a mushroom
of an ok variety lucky I guess!

 

[ClimbinArbor]

geez rope. first you get mercury poisoning, then your drinking lead paint with a straw. now your just going around eating strange mushrooms and berries....

what happened to the drug free policy lmao

 

[ropensaddle]

geez rope. first you get mercury poisoning, then your drinking lead paint with a straw. now your just going around eating strange mushrooms and berries....

what happened to the drug free policy lmao

Mercury is not a drug neither is ivy and I don't think the mushrooms
I ate were either but was just a kid. I played with mercury not necessarily
poisoned myself as did wear surgery gloves and a toothpick to roll it around
and separate it and watch it join together again and again it is some cool
metal. I probably did eat some things I should not have as a child and did
things that now days would be unheard of for kids. I climbed my first water
tower at seven years old and it was one that was needing repaired. Today
kids don't get away from a mouse long enough to live a little

 

[ClimbinArbor]

i hear that. thats why none of them work worth a dern........