re: Poison Ivy Help

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I shite you not....put vodka in a spray bottle and spray it on the rash. It soothes the itching.

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I don't understand how this works, but there is something to it. As a pipefitter, I had to work with and around welders a lot. Sometimes we pipefitters, millwrights, etc. would sustain flash burns to our eyes from sudden and unexpected welding arcs. A common remedy to these eye burns was to take a slice of potato and lay it on our eyes. Believe it or not, that slice of potato would begin to darken and turn black, depending on the severity of the flash burn. Vodka is made from potatoes, so there must be something of a medicinal value in potatoes?