Poison Ivy/Oak

[JDgreen227]

Agree with Yellowhair 42 it looks like stinging nettle...when I first saw the picture I was thinking it looks much like catnip because of the leaf shape.

 

[Susanjoyce]

I have no reaction at all to poison ivy--I pull it out with my bare hands, etc.--and i'm a white bread Anglo-Saxon midwesterner. On the other hand, I brushed against some stinging nettle a while back, and by evening my legs looked like they'd been in a fire. No blisters, just bright red, swollen, and painful.

When I have seeping blisters from touching something I am allergic to, I put antiperspirant on it. Dries it right up.

 

[pclausen]

I didn't know stinging nettle grew natively in the US. I have never seen it in Virginia. On the other hand, we have plenty of Poison Ivy/Oak, which I gather would not make good wine, nor a nice hot soup!

 

[Daves Maple Farm]

OUCH...lol

 

[Susanjoyce]

PClausen--

In Ohio we don't have poison oak, thank goodness. But when I searched the net for ways to kill stinging nettles from a safe distance (say, from the next county), the first page was for recipes. Not a help.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Plenty of stinging nettle here in Washington. And I grab it by the stalks and pull it out or have weedwhacked it often without problems. I don't remember any poison ivy around here. There is another big plant called Devils club that is sort of nasty here.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

That is interesting. I have never heard of that plant before...

 

[JDgreen227]

Plenty of stinging nettle here in Washington. And I grab it by the stalks and pull it out or have weedwhacked it often without problems. I don't remember any poison ivy around here. There is another big plant called Devils club that is sort of nasty here.

When I was younger there was a lot of stinging nettle around in mid-Michigan but I have not seen any for a while. When I said earlier that nettle looked like catnip, I meant the leaves are shaped very much alike.

 

[jimmysisson]

I've never understood why PI (which I get bad) doesn't make you itch right away. If the plant doesn't want to be eaten or trampled, wouldn't it want you to know RIGHT NOW instead of hours later? I don't get it. By the way pclausen, very handsome pooch in your avatar.
Jim

 

[Cub 7274]

Lots of Poison Ivy-Oak and Stinging Nettle & Catnip in the Niagara area especially this year it seems and all very healthy

 

[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.