Tis the season...for Poison Ivy!!!!!!!!

[Heavy]

<p>Alright, now I get this pretty bad.&nbsp; Many summers have had about a month of misery thanks to this shit.&nbsp; I was even hospitalized for 2 days back when I joined the army after i apparently slept in some.</p><p>Anyway, yesterday I woke up with the ol' itch on the elbow and soon realized what it was as i had more itchin on the other arm and whatnot.&nbsp; The elbows a bad spot.&nbsp; at work I operate machinery has my arms resting....on an armrest which aggravates the blisters and break them open, I mean if you think about, whenever youre sitting youre arms resting on some shit.&nbsp; Anyway at this point I'm feeling lucky.&nbsp; Just a bit between 2 fingers, a tad on my forarm and the elbow is blistered pretty bad and is swelling nicely.&nbsp; </p><p>At CVS today I picked up IvySTAT for $25.&nbsp; Its got 2 tubes of this cleansing exfoliant, which it claims removes the poison ivy oils in seconds.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;Basically the deal is that I've never met anyone else that gets this as bad as I do and I figure thrownig this out might help me find a cure, and yea, I know not touching it would help.&nbsp; I'm reading about this &quot;jewelweed&quot; which has the anti-poison Ivy oil in it.&nbsp; Never seen that anywhere but i'm gonna search more and try to find a place that sells it around here.&nbsp; I read that running HOT water over it speeds up the whole proces it goes though causing it to dry up quicker.</p><p>The thing of it is, i dont get what most people seem to discribe it as.&nbsp; A &quot;rash&quot;.&nbsp; I get blisters.&nbsp; Most of the time they are together which i guess could be considered a rash, but it looks nothing like a rash in general terms.&nbsp; Eh whatever</p>

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[KC2OSO]

Wadd - I feel your pain man.&nbsp; I got it this year too all over my
legs and it wound up on my unit.&nbsp; Blisters like you.&nbsp; Not
fun. I went to the doctor and she wrote me a script for Mometasone
Furoate cream which got rid of the problem in about two days.&nbsp;
Thank god for the 'ol mule cream.<br />


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[JPMNICK]

i used to get it bad when I was a landscaper for the summer. Some people it effects MUCH greater than others. My friend who I worked with would get it HORRIBLE. once i had it in highschool and I had to put football pads over it for double sessions. It was all over my chest, it was one of the worst days of my life.

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[angrymissy]

<p>When I was a kid, they were tarring a driveway near my apartment and somehow managed to burn posion ivy... I inhaled it and was hospitalized for 5 days.&nbsp; I had it inside my throat, in my nose, my eyes were swollen shut, and my MOUTH was crusted shut with poison ivy pus.&nbsp; It was one of the worst things I've ever dealt with.</p><p>If you go to the doc, they can prescribe some steriods which will make the healing time MUCH MUCH faster.</p>

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<p>I've learned a few treatments:</p><p>Use dishwashing liquid instead on body soap</p><p>put oatmeal or baking soda on it</p><p>rubbing alchohol</p><p>vitamin C..LOTS of it.</p><p>Hair dryer</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img height="385" src="http://www.aocd.org/skin/dermatologic_diseases/images/poison_ivy_dermati_2.jpg" width="250" border="0" /></p>

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[PapaBear]

<p>I feel your pain. I used to be immune to it and poison oak. I'd show off to my friends by rubbing it all over my neck. One year, I did it with some poison oak and guess what... no longer immune. The next day I went to the beach for a week. The sun didn't make it any better.</p><p>btw... Also as a kid, a friend of mine wiped his but w/ poison ivy after taking a dump in the woods. I could hear him screaming in pain from the bathroom as his mom treated him. It didn't sound fun.</p>

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<p>sorry Wadd...&nbsp; hope it heals up quick</p>

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[Aggie]

<p>For some reason I've never reacted to poision ivy. I'm sure I must have been in it as a kid. I guess it doesn't affect me which is weird because I have sensitive skin.</p><p>Hope it heals soon. </p>

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[TooCute]

That Ivy Stat stuff or any other stuff that claims to wash the oils off (regular dish soap will work just as well for that) is useless once you already have the rash - the oils will have already fused to your skin and caused the allergic reaction so it's too late. For what it's worth, I'm&nbsp; really really allergic too, so now every single time I go out, I make sure that I shower with dishsoap and wash my clothes (once I got it all over my stomach because it was on a pair of pants I'd worn outside climbing a few months earlier and hadn't washed!) immediately - I haven't had it in a few years now save a few tiny spots here or there. Once my climbing rope was dragged through some poison oak - took the longest time to figure out it was on my rope and that was why I kept getting it every time I went climbing!!&nbsp;<div><br /></div><div>Also I have never heard of jewelweed as a cure for poison ivy, but you can find it everywhere around here - it's that big bushy plant that grows in slightly marshy areas and has little orange flowers, and grows those green pods that you can pop.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">The best remedy I've found for poison ivy is &quot;calagel&quot;&nbsp; - there are tons of various gels out there (eg benadryl anti-itch), but the calagel combines the active ingredients in a lot of them into one gel, eg diphenhydramine HCL (the antihistamine in benadryl) zinc acetate to dry the gross weeping, benzethonium chloride to keep it from getting infected -&nbsp; etc - actually a lot of store brands have this stuff too, my point is just check the back of the bottle/tube because some remedies only have one active ingredient and may not work as well for you...<div><br /></div></span></div>

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[Heavy]

Well loook at that, 2C is right.&nbsp; I figured when i bought this shit yesterday that he fliud in the blisters was the oil the box spoke of.&nbsp; I learned last night that this fliud doest cause the spread, actually nothing but the original urishall ({sp) will cause the rash.&nbsp; yea anyway $25 down the crapper.

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<font size="1">I miss poison Ivy the poster </font> I was thinking the same thing when I saw the topic

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[Heavy]

Alright I took the Vitamin C and rubbing alcohol and it dissapeared like magic.&nbsp; Days later i must have gotten into it again, and wound up with poison junk.&nbsp; I'm recovering nicely now, but recovery time is slowed due to the sensitive nature of the location and the lack of being able to spray the rgion with rubbing alchohol.&nbsp; Water in the shower stings like a mo but the bacitracin is healing me up

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