frick poison ivy

I hear you brother.

If you have access to a well chlorinated swimming pool, go swimming. Otherwise, add one cup of bleach to a hot soapy bath and soak.

( stand up and shower well after to make certain you and the bath area are bleach free. Your towels and your marriage will thank you )

It works very well as a preventative when you've been exposed, and if you're showing the rash, you no doubt still have plenty of sap/allergen on your skin. That stuff is tenacious. Make sure you get your head/ face very well

If it has reached a point of blistering and oozing, pick up some domboros at the pharmacy. It's a powder you mix with saline or water and make a wet compress with a washcloth. It glazes over all of the wet stuff and dries everything up quickly.

I keep a huge bottle of Dawn dish detergent in my bathroom so I can shower with it after I’ve done yard work where I might encounter poison ivy. Use it every damn where. Hair, under fingernails, etc. Multiple times. The poison ivy urushiol is an oil and it takes a concerted effort to remove.

Prednisone works. I'm on day 3 of my pack for poison ivy or poison oak or something.

I got it from clearing out brush and saplings to put up a few more rifle and pistol targets.

Straight bleach with a cottom ball.

Then as said above, bath tonight with bleach.

Anybody remember hearing about a poison ivy vaccinations back in the 90's? I wonder what happened with that. I'd pay big money to prevent that crap.

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Wash with soap and water within 30 minutes if contact

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Use Dawn. It is the best at breaking down the oil.

I've never had it, but my Pops never had it until in his 40s. So, I don't take it for granted and still try to avoid it and wash as soon as I can.

I get poison ivy pretty bad but started using Tecnu. Now I just don't worry about it all, walk right through it, just use the tecnu on my arms and legs before I shower. I almost never get it anymore

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Virginia creeper

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For the first 20ish years of my life my grandmother had me convinced that it was poison something or the other. I know the difference now, or....rather, that there is a difference.

Xanfel scrub really helps. It's not cheap, but don't get the generic. Doesn't work nearly as well!

Well, one way to at least get some relief from the itching is hot water. Put the affected part under a stream of warm water and slowly reduce the amount of cold water until is as hot as you can tolerate. You will get either a very pleasant experience or the itching will get very intense briefly, afterwards you should get about 8 hours of being itch free.

Make sure to start with warm water so you don't burn your skin. But this method will work for temporary itch reilef. Do it every 8 hours or so and it will get you through.