Poison Ivy

[mag_pbg]

I got Poison Ivy and I havn't been able to sleep for abotu a week becasue of how bad it itches, and this is my first time ever getting it!!!

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[magattack]

Well out here in newfoundland we have poison oak. It went through to pairs of jeans i was wearing and stung me, and it itches like CRAZY, put some gold bond cream on it, it works really good

[Thordic]

Ask your doctor for Elocon cream, if its not a very severe case. Usually doctors will readily give you a prescription for a cream like that if you just show them the rash and tell them it is really itching.

If its a severe case, ask your doctor for cortisone pills. Nothing on earth works better than these pills once you have poison anything. But, considering how they are steroids, doctors only give them out in the most extreme cases (I was lucky enough to get 40 of them once, and it lasted me through 4 seperate instances of poison ivy).

And, although too late for you now, if you know you are going to be around it, go to your doctors BEFORE the summer, and ask for the preventive shot. They can give you a shot that will last for that season that will keep you from having a reaction to the oils. I wish they had that stuff when I was a kid, woulda solved me a ton of itchy misery :-)

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Now that you've gotten it, you will be more suseptible to getting it again, and the rash will be more severe.

There is this stuff that you can get at Wal-Mart in the pharmaceuticals that you put on before you go into the woods and it prevents the ivy oil from bothering your skin.

Poison ivy is just an allergic reaction.


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[irbodden]

Another thing you can do is "cold presses" get a bag of ice, and put it on your infected area and push it down for a minute or two, than the itchies are gone! I got poison ivy my first time too, It only lasted 3-4 days though. Remember the cortozone(sp?)

-RIck

[Army]

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There are many over-the-counter creams and barriers you can use PRIOR to going out into the woods. One of my hunting buddies sent me a bunch of them to try. I am VERY succeptable to a Poison Oak outbreak, as most blond, fair skinned people are, and these baariers work fantastic!

http://www.hheadproducts.com/poib.htm

http://www.healthy.net/asp/templates/article.asp?PageType=Article&ID=761

You have a 15-20 minute grace period to wash off the oil from poison oak. In sensitive people, the oil can cause swelling, blisters and horrendous oozing and itching.

This is the best stuff I have used out here in California as we have whole hillsides, 40-50 acres, covered in poison oak. It gets pretty hellish during fire season as the Urishoil is carried with the smoke. Urishiol, or the sap of the plant, is what causes the skin reaction.

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[PyRo]

Just do what i do and be immune to it I go through it all the time, and have never gotten it

[-J�ker-]

i had never gotten it before this summer (i was immune apparently cause im alwys outside in it) but since i got it i go out in the woods walkin around barely gettin in to ive got it again.... sucks but o well i dont get bad rashes

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[mag_pbg]

Pyro I was just like you I could grab a hand full and rub it all over my body and still not get it and then i went out behind my house in a field and got it, pretty bad to it's all over my right leg my right arm my left arm and my stomach!

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[Peanut The Paintballer]

same here lol. i havent had it in 6 plus years and this summer i get it twice. One so severe that the had me on watch at the hospital cause it was so badly infected that the bubbles almost came an inch off the skin and i had a huge red line up my leg which meant it was in my blood. Needless to say, i was out for 6 weeks(yes i had it for 6 weeks, you try living with that.) now its just on my arm and i take care of it like every 15 mins with anti itch stuff lol.

[Tbone]

Lucky for me, I work in a Pharmacy so the pharmacist just gives me the strongest stuff he has without a prescription (it's amazing, the ivy rash is gone in 2 days!). Anyway, at least none of you is as dumb as my friend who decided to pull up all the poison ivy and burn it. Guess what? He breathed in the smoke by accident and then guess where he got poison ivy!

Yes, it really sucked for him.

[Paintballer86]

<font face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by magattack:
it itches like CRAZY, put some gold bond cream on it, it works really good</font>

Ya know where else gold bond works REALLY well dont you.....


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[Paintballer86]

Also one of my friends decided to go camping and took a dump in the woods. Guess what he used to wipe. yup. You guessed it. It was so bad, he couldnt "go" for a week and had to hve something done to stop it because it was spreading...farward...if ya know what I mean...

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[MagMan5446]

Poison Ivy is one of the few things that has not happened to me.

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[netjunk1e]

I found the best stuff for taking away poisen Ivy/Oak. In minor reactions it will take it out in one treatment(use), but in bad cases it takes a little longer. It also takes away all of the itching. The product actually removes the urushiol oil (the oil in oisen ivy) out of your skin. Here is the link to their web site:

http://www.zanfel.com/

The product is called Zanfel and if for both poisen ivy and oak. I have unfortenly had to use it many times but it has worked every time. I hope this helps you out.

Robbie Kimmell