Poison IVY

[Dryden]

COLD WATER, never rinse with hot water, opens your pores and causes it to spread. Rinse with cold water. This means holding your leg outta the shower, or take a cold shower.

Yes. After playing, take a cold shower and wash with Dawn dish soap. Seriously, it works awesome.

[lord1234]

I know a guy who broke up with this girlfriend over Poison Ivy in college.

He came home from paintball with a wierd rash on a lot of his torso and hands (we were city boys, had never seen PI before). His girlfriend was... um.. "in season", and they said damn the torpedo's (rash), let's ****.

She got poison ivy bad, but invisibly (I'm trying to be delicate)

She got so pissed at him they broke up within a couple days.

AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH

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[TheTramp]

Eating poison ivy is an old wives tale that surprisingly even knowledgeable people like park rangers still believe.

Unfortunately having a resistance to the oil when you are young does not confer a permanent immunity. In fact, if you aren't careful because you "never" get it and give yourself a huge exposure you can develop an allergy to it. I mean pretty much everybody is sensitive to the oil but if you develop an allergy it is ten times worse than normal.

I'm not particularly sensitive but at one point I got it in my eyes. That was nasty. My whole face swelled and looked like lizard skin and my right eye swelled completely shut for a week. I had to get shots and take oral medicine because the ointment wasn't doing a thing.

[Chris42050]

Eating poison ivy is an old wives tale that surprisingly even knowledgeable people like park rangers still believe.

Unfortunately having a resistance to the oil when you are young does not confer a permanent immunity. In fact, if you aren't careful because you "never" get it and give yourself a huge exposure you can develop an allergy to it. I mean pretty much everybody is sensitive to the oil but if you develop an allergy it is ten times worse than normal.

I'm not particularly sensitive but at one point I got it in my eyes. That was nasty. My whole face swelled and looked like lizard skin and my right eye swelled completely shut for a week. I had to get shots and take oral medicine because the ointment wasn't doing a thing.

Yep, I got it in my eyes too playing paintball back when I was in High School. Teacher all of a sudden looked at me and said you loook like you have pink eye and sent me to the nurse. By the time I got their my eyes allready started to get swollen shut. I had to go to the dr. and get a shot. Went away within a couple of days, just before my sisters wedding. I woulda looked real funny in the pictures otherwise.

[logamus]

i am not a doctor, but i would imagine a cortisone shot would clear that crap up quick.

[TheTramp]

You'd think but it took a shot then a week of pills to knock it down.

[Thordic]

Cortisone shots and/or pills work wonders.

Your body chemistry changes over the course of your life, I've heard allergies and whatnot can change roughly every seven years. (Which I tend to believe, as I used to get poison ivy all the time but I havn't gotten it since around the time I turned 21) That timing may be off, but its definitely true.

My mom used to be able to pull poison ivy out with her bare hands and would suffer no ill effects, then one day she just got poison ivy real bad all over her hands.

It happens, just because you aren't allergic to something at some point doesn't mean you wont in the future.

So dont roll around in the stuff

[Hexis]

So dont roll around in the stuff

Heh, that's exactly how I found out I wasn't sensitive to it. Playing woodsball, doing a belly crawl with two friends, then we realized what we were crawling through. That's a bad feeling. However, I never developed a thing, nor did one of my friends. The other guy was in bad shape. Poor guy, that had to suck.

[bornl33t]

I have never been allergic to anything. But the last couple years around spring I start getting runny noses with random nose bleeds and sneasing. I wonder if I'm turning into a real geek. I mean I got the braces, the computer lingo down, probalby some sorta allergies going on and now I'm reacting to poison ivy.... all I need is a set of glasses with tape around the middle to hold them together.........