ultratec1 Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 (edited) If anyone here is as allergic to posion Ivy as I'am you know how miserable it can be. I have had it so bad on my face, my eyes swelled shut and I had to eat small bites of food because my mouth wouldn't open all the way. After years of trying everything known to man to prevent it I found a solution, and it came from an old timer who knew all the little secrets. Here is what you do, after you get home immediatly take a shower and use DAWN DISH SOAP!!!!!!! Works amazing, if you don't have the time to take a shower then just carry a bottle of dawn with you and use it when you get out of the timber. Edited September 8, 2010 by ultratec1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layin on the smackdown Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 Actually, if you know you were in contact with it, all you need to do is use any soap and warm water as soon as possible and wash the living heck out of whatever areas you may have had contact with....The sooner you wash the oils from the ivy off, the better you'll be. the tricky part is knowing exactly what touched what...and what touched what after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 Yeah, it does work if you get washed off quick enough. Poison Ivy is an oil, and Dawn is pretty good at breaking up oil. I've used Fells Naptha with good results too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 Luckily it doesnt bother me at all. Im not sure ive ever even had it. My wife is seriously allergic to it. My brother has actually ended up in the hospital because of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 As a kid, I'd get it almost as bad as you. I'd miss school and have to take a cortisone pill treatment. For some reason, now, I can pull it out by the roots bare-handed and maybe get a couple small, itchy bumps. I don't know how I developed an immunity or tolerance to the stuff. But this way is much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 I don't know how I developed an immunity or tolerance to the stuff. But this way is much better. It happens with everything from wasp to snake bites. Im sure it can happen for ivy too. Im betting that is what happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 It happens with everything from wasp to snake bites. Im sure it can happen for ivy too. Im betting that is what happened. When is it going to happen to me? I'm looking at 2 patches right now, and 3 patch scars from June, July and August. Some years I get it a lot, some years I don't get it much. This year I'm getting it a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruttinbuc Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 Poison is no fun. I have had my share of it. The best relief I ever found was driving to the shore and diving in the ocean. That got rid of it lickity split! Since then, it is hot water salt baths. Dish soap is good for getting ticks out of your skin or so I've heard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
92xj Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 It happens with everything from wasp to snake bites. Im sure it can happen for ivy too. Im betting that is what happened. Or it happens the other way around. I have been stung by 1000s of bees and wasp growing up. Until last year I have never had a reaction. Last year I got stung a few times and woke up hours later in the hospital naked with shots in my butt hooked up to machines and the docs trying to frying out how to tell my mom that her son died. HORRIBLE experience that I do not wish onto anyone, not even my worst enemy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfletch7441 Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 I got into a patch of it over the weekend. I usually have to deal with it for a week or so while it runs its course, but this time I bought some "Cortaid". It worked great! I apparently got into it Sunday afternoon, but didn't know it until Monday night when the rash showed up. Went to Wally World and bought the Cortaid, scrubbed the fire out of it, repeated it Tuesday morning, and as I set here now, it's healing up and not bothering me at all. In short, the stuff works. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 Oddly enough I just got off the phone with the wife and she has it everywhere. We are re doing our barn. It was covered in vines but none looked like poison ivy. I was pulling it down by hand and she was stacking it up to burn. She just noticed she now has poison ivy on her face, legs, stomach, and shoulder to shoulder across her chest.... Eeeeek.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
92xj Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 Oddly enough I just got off the phone with the wife and she has it everywhere. We are re doing our barn. It was covered in vines but none looked like poison ivy. I was pulling it down by hand and she was stacking it up to burn. She just noticed she now has poison ivy on her face, legs, stomach, and shoulder to shoulder across her chest.... Eeeeek.... Did you burn it yet? Ever had posion ivy in the lungs? You will get to know your Doctors very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 Havent set the pile on fire yet. We have a lot of rain comming over the next two days and I was waiting for it. There is a ton of other stuff mixed in the pile too (old barn wood, trash, etc.). Its about 400' from the house. As long as the wind is good im torching it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBow Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Well now you've all done it! I broke out in a rash just reading this thread! TBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Did you burn it yet? Ever had posion ivy in the lungs? You will get to know your Doctors very well. The happened to the father of my old girlfriend. He spent days in the hospital. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesse8953 Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 i got it bad in june this year.Started Friday and Sunday I had it bad enough i had to got to the ready-med and they gave me steroids and in a couple days it was almost all gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 I'm one of the lucky ones who isn't allergic to it. I've seen people have it REALLY bad, one poor guy I know had it on his manhood parts, had it on his hands before any symptoms and had to take a leak, and the rest is history. Can't imagine that!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultratec1 Posted September 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 (edited) Been there done that with the ivy on the manhood. As a matter of fact I'm the one who started this thread and I'm now the one with poison ivy on my wrist and inside my arms. Guess I didn't get it all off. I never use to be allergic to the stuff and I'm real careful when I'm around it. I'm starting to wonder if its something else that I'm allergic to that has the same reaction as poison ivy?? Edited September 11, 2010 by ultratec1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambuscher Posted September 12, 2010 Report Share Posted September 12, 2010 I could play in it until about 5 yrs ago. Now I can't get close to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted September 12, 2010 Report Share Posted September 12, 2010 When I was younger, I had it on 90% of my body. The dermatologist told me the oil from poison can stay in your body for up to a year. Once it finds a weak part of your skin it can show up. Which explains why I would get poison outbreaks in the winter time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODH Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 I found the most effective way... (maybe not the least painful) is to take a fork and scrape every bit of the ive area open so its exposed and seeping. Take a small cup of bleach and dump it on the ivy infected area. Hurts like heck!:48: but it works. Normally would take me 2 weeks for it to dry up and heal but doing this it only took 2-3 days. :boxing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA_Spike_King Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 I found the most effective way... (maybe not the least painful) is to take a fork and scrape every bit of the ive area open so its exposed and seeping. Take a small cup of bleach and dump it on the ivy infected area. Hurts like heck!:48: but it works. Normally would take me 2 weeks for it to dry up and heal but doing this it only took 2-3 days. :boxing: That right there is the way I used to do it also till my Dad taught me just what it looked like and I haven't had it in years. I don't miss those days. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 Take a small cup of bleach and dump it on the ivy infected area. Hurts like heck!:48: but it works. Normally would take me 2 weeks for it to dry up and heal but doing this it only took 2-3 days. :boxing: My Mom use to run my brother a bath with a cup of bleach in the bath. He gets it really bad too and it helped to dry it out.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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