Ivy of poison

[medium187mph]

Gosh dang poison ivy got me over the weekend… both calves and forearm.

It’s like a mix of battery acid, jellyfish sting, chiggers, and fire ant bites all mixed into a nasty rash.

Cortizone 10 cream, Benadryl, and pink calamine lotion are knocking off the edge but it’s still aggravated and calling me to SCRATCH THAT ITCH!

 

[BHPSteel]

get a second mortgage and buy some Zanfel.

 

[medium187mph]

Got some baking soda and water paste I’m going to try at the house when I get off work.

 

[CAD Jedi]

Bleach works pretty good. Not sure how effective it is after a few days, but all the landscapers I know use to rinse off at the end of the day. Dries it out and or kills it.

 

[Boomer Mike]

Supposedly, you can scratch the blisters all you want. It only spreads at the beginning before you've washed the poison ivy leaf oils off your skin (and clothes). You can unknowingly spread it all over by rubbing the oil everywhere, The fluid in the blisters doesn't spread it. I tried being a tree surgeon down in Mobile, AL back in 1989--assisted the tree climbers by clearing limbs and bushes they had cut along the highway. I was covered in poison ivy by that evening. No fun.

 

[DanKATL]

You're gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion

 

[87KJH]

Zanfel gives relief in a couple of days.
Cortisone, Benadryl, Calamine seems to take a week.
Tried bleach once, but it seemed to cause more skin irritation.

 

[Reloadhby]

I use a bottle of Outdoors Joes every year, and it greatly reduces how many times i get it and how bad I get it , kinda like an allergy treatment

 

[Reloadhby]

Poison Ivy Treatment

Outdoor Joe's® (Rhus Tox) helps build reduce sensitivity to poison ivy, poison oak, & wild sumac. Try over the counter fast-acting homeopathic oral solution!

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[NDIrish1]

Bleach bath…. Air dry! Steroids when it gets the upper hand…….