Anyone have cure for poison ivy ?

texshooter

Took a few days off from work (1st time since last Thanksgiving) to work sround the house...painting, cleaning out a fence row, then the trouble started. First time in my life that poison ivy bothered me. Itching, swelling etc. What can I try to relieve this?



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Knifecollector

If you can find some touch-me-not plants, take the leaves and stems and rub them up in your hands to make a juice, spread every where you have itching. Milkweed will also work just not as good. If it gets too bad you can go to a doctor for a shot of corticone. That will take care of it for you. I've also ran very hot water over the blisters to release the poison right before bedtime, it will keep it from itching for a little while, so you can go to sleep. Some people may recommend horse urine. Does not work. Don't ask how I know.

charlie15

Butter milk and baking soda mixed together, if don't help, doctor here you come!


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royc38

Take a bath with hot water and pour 2 glassfuls of Clorox bleach in the water. Do this about three days in a row. You will smell like bleach for a couple of days but it will be worth it.

4wheeler

My wife does the clorox thing.It does not take on meShe says it works best if you take the bath in clorox ASAP shortly after you come in contact with it.

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offeror

There's a product called Caladryl that seems to work better than calamine lotion. You can ask the pharmacist if there's anything better than Caladryl nowadays.

Also, go on www.Google.com and search for poison ivy; try words like remedy, treatment, medicine with it and see what pops up.

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muley

Recently our granddaughter came in contact with some Poison Oak. No Poison Ivy in our area. Anyway, my wife works in a pharmacy and she brought this stuff home that really worked. Read all about it. It's available in most pharmicies.


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gunnut

Anyone remember the old foxfire books? anyway make a paste with vinager and salt it will dry it out in a matter of a couple of days! I am very aleragic to poision oak and the like, however this remedy works wonders for me!

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Rosie

Take all of the advise above, use it, then scratch like hell for about ten days! Or you could just scratch like hell for about ten days.

Iconoclast

Over-the-counter med called IvyDry works well for me. I suspect the home remedies will do as well. Personally, I would not pickle myself in bleach, however - I can't even handle the dilute levels in public swimming pools.

Smokeeater 38

I had it on my hands one time and I happened to be working with concrete the next day. I was using my hands and the concrete dries out your skin, as you know if you work with any type of cement, it dried up the poison ivy by the next day. If you try this you need to be very careful. I have heard of some guy doing a slab and working the concrete in sandals or low top shoes and he ended up with chemical burns on his feet.

Anything that will dry out you skin should help. Or just scratch it till it's gone.


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Spring Creek

Absorbine Junior will help the itch.

offeror

If the itch is really killing you, talk your doctor into giving you a prescription for a tube of 2% topical Lydocaine gel. It's the same stuff they use to numb a patient's throat when they stick a tube down, or to numb a laceration inside your, uh, you know, that is really killing you. It will give temporary but near complete relief for 20-30 minutes, and this may be enough to keep you from going crazy. THe trouble is itching can spread poison ivy -- and so can rubbing in lotions. That's why it helps to dry the skin, and why you don't want to mess with it any more than necessary, or get it on your fingers. Trust me on trying the lydocaine gel though. They won't let you use this stuff around your mouth because if you swallow it, it can numb your swallow reflex and choke you. That's how well it numbs what it touches. So it might help. And if it doesn't work well enough for this, you'll certainly use it as a topical painkiller for other things from time to time.

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bhayes420

Don't know how I got it, but I was sitting in my office Monday morning, and suddenly realized I had been scratching like a wild cat for the past 30 minutes. Walked across to my house, looked in the mirror, and I was covered absolutely head-to-toe with poison ivy. It was absolutely EVERYWHERE! Yes, there too! And there! Went straight to the doc, got a cortizone shot, a dex pack of steroids, and some zrytec for the itching. Much better tonight. Still itches like heck, but not the raised up, ugly welts everywhere. Only thing I can figure is that I got it from bush-hogging about 20 acres at my Dad's Saturday evening. Why it waited until Monday to show up, I don't know. Anyway..to get to the point, if it is bad enough, make a bee-line to the doc. He can clear it right up.

REBJr

It would seem avoidence is the most prudent policy for sufferers
OTOH theres a product out called oral ivy, a few drops in your morning coffee and you wont get poison ivy-they say, I never use it. Tecnu works for a lot of tree guys out there, the only thing I've found is 1-stay away from it, or 2- wash with soap and water within 10 minutes of getting the oil on your skin. The bleach deal works, I tell people to scratch the skin then wipe straight bleach on it.
Best one I've seen yet is Rosie's- scratch like hell. Gloves help along with long shirt sleeves.
In case you're interested:

tecnu--http://www.atkenco.com/catpg/catpg.asp?catID=59

oral ivy----http://www.healthcare21.com/PPF/pf_id/BT0991/dept_id/50/parent_id/46/Product.asp

don't forget benedryl shots
Thank genetics I'm not allergic to it- Ralph

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Varmintmist

Iconolas told ya true, had poison oak this summer, got Ivy dry, gone by the next day. Rubbing alcohol works fast if the sores are open, just dont yell to loud

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101AIRBORNE

Perhaps just alcohol, orally?

kalifornian

Can't tell you a remedy as I'm naturally immune and never needed one. A word of warning, though: Be REALLY carefull when you wash your clothes. My educational background included botany and other field biology classes and one exceptionally allergic student made the mistake of throwing contaminated clothes in the wash with her other clothes. This spread the oil and when she wore the freshly washed clothes, she ended up with the rash EVERYwhere rather than just on her hands and arms like before.



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