Poison Ivy/Oak

[lilranch2001]

Dave,

I seriously hope you aren't going to expound on this any further ....

I had a friend who got it multiple times on his manhood.

We all could not completely figure out what he had been doing out in the woods so much......

 

[Maxify55]

The best remedy by far and away is plain old everyday dry powder laundry soap. Don't pay attention to brand. Dollar Store cheap stuff is probably the best.

Climb in the shower with a tub of powder (Keep it dry, Dummy) and start scrubbing those little blisters till
they stop itching.

It's not going to be pretty and, Yeah, you're probably going to have to put some ointment on the open
pustules. But at this point you'll do almost anything to stop the itch.

Yes, the relief is immediate! If you know you've been in it just scrub down with the powder....no blisters. NONE!

Then apologize to your wife for not bathing before going to bed and sharing the oils with her. How sweet of you to share?
Now strip the bed of sheets and wash them.

Psst! The laundry soap is in the shower.

 

[JamesHW]

I had a friend who got it multiple times on his manhood.

We all could not completely figure out what he had been doing out in the woods so much......

Master of his domain?

 

[John47]

Goats love poison ivy and poison oak, supposed to be poisonous to them, but I never had any problems when I bred and kept them, in fact they kept the "ladder fuel" down when I lived in "Kalifornia"

PI and PO never bother the wife, I've seen a few weed eat the stuff in shorts, never bothered them, just a few of us it's toxic for.
Also, don't throw any part of the plant on the burn pile!!!! You'll regret it when you burn your garbage!

 

[mrutkaus]

20 years ago at a big name training center in VA I was doing my lunchtime walk in the woods. I found a location where some sort of executive training session had been completed a day or two before. From obvious marks on a tree I could see there had been much climbing while hugging a giant poison ivy vine. I always wondered what happened to those people...

Mike

 

[timster2]

When I was a kid back in boy scout camp I got the stuff on my hands and took a leak. Well needless to say I got quite a rash. Hear I was twelve or thirteen explaining to the camp nurse where this rash was.:ashamed: Spent the day in the infirmary getting calamine lotion applied. Now for some reason the stuff no longer bothers me. My mother was helping in the garden and was just near the stuff and got a rash. Seems that it can also be transmitted in the laundry, at least that what mom claims Seems that my kids are also not sensitive to it as well I wonder if immunity is hereditary?

 

[Don87]

The best remedy by far and away is plain old everyday dry powder laundry soap. Don't pay attention to brand. Dollar Store cheap stuff is probably the best.

Climb in the shower with a tub of powder (Keep it dry, Dummy) and start scrubbing those little blisters till
they stop itching.

It's not going to be pretty and, Yeah, you're probably going to have to put some ointment on the open
pustules. But at this point you'll do almost anything to stop the itch.

Yes, the relief is immediate! If you know you've been in it just scrub down with the powder....no blisters. NONE!

Then apologize to your wife for not bathing before going to bed and sharing the oils with her. How sweet of you to share?
Now strip the bed of sheets and wash them.

Psst! The laundry soap is in the shower.

My Father in law would use the same sort of technique...........except that he used bleach, instead of laundry soap.