Poison Ivy!!!

[Mr. Sandman]

If you have it real bad go to the doctor and get the shot containing the steroid. This will clear it up pronto. If you don't it can get out of control when all at PI juice starts oozing it spreads and then that starts to ooze. If you know you just touched it or had it rub against your leg use the over the counter stuff. I keep a bottle of tecnu my outdoor shower and a perscription tube of the steroid at the house and this keeps is in control. I seem to have it all the time.

A couple times I had it really bad. One time when I was younger I will NEVER forget. Face and eyes so sollen they were completely shut, had all over my crotch and crack area to the point of puss oozing out of everywhere. I looked like a friggin lepper. I was in the hospital for a couple days. I was on some kind of steroid and taking baths with oatmeal (very soothing actually). I was a mess for a nearly a month. Nowadays I try to avoid it but it seems all summer I get it. Thank GOD not this bad. (the other time I was in the dunes with a girl on Fire Island and well....you can figure out the rest)

Get a tube of the steroid from the doc and keep it in your house or in your vehicle.

PI is got to be the work of the devil, who else would create such a nasty plant.

[nightfighter]

Don't forget the sumac too. My dad and I were both prone to hospitalizations from that and PI. Worst one for me was UMass orientation, Colt45, and passed out relieving myself in a field of yo know what.... Never touched Colt45 again. Tuna can on tangerines, and my eyes shut tight. "I can't figure out how it happened, Mom..."

I almost killed a neighbor when he torched a pile of sumac...... upwind of my house to boot.

Bad memories to get me off to work. Thanks. Have a NICE DAY!

[Raven]

you have no concept how much i hate poison ivy........

i believe in using both natural remedies and prescription drugs simutaneously...

which is why i mentioned brewer's yeast because it fights it from the inside out! instead of the way topical stuff like calamine lotion and then you make your'self into a pink bunny...

Another remedy i figured out too -- was when the water is warmer at the beach ...i would go in for a swim in the salt water...then lay on the beach til dry.....soon as i was dry ..i'd go for a quick swim and repeat that all day long...that makes it dry up .

using the salt of the sea as a drying agent. works good too.

the beach lot we owned (where i grew up ) was like the thickest meanest hardiest poison ivy i ever saw and it took over four feet of fill to smother that stuff...

i walk now with my double bladed axe sharped ....and go out cutting massive 3 and 4 inch hairy poison ivy vines on big trees...that are 20 years old easy, when i find them nasty things...
being careful to not get any residew on me or my clothing.

those big vines make little tiny blue berries that certain birds eat and S h I T somewhere else makin more poison ivy...so i kill those massive roots
the MOTHERS of poison IVY just like it was an ALIEN beast attacking our friggan planet. I take no prisoners.

another other method is to take
a pump up gardening sprayer and slam in four times the normally reccomended amount of "ROUND UP" and go spray those patches with
it when your about to have four hot sunny days in a row. DIE>
it works systemically

[Raven]

that i think there should be a seperate branch of the military eradicating it by what ever means possible on the entire planet!

ooohhhh i hate that stuff.....smother it ,chop it.spray it KILL IT


ok i feel better now

[bloocrab]

Weird thing, the body is...
Some people get it, some don't
Some people go thru most of their life never getting it
Then suddenly it happens...then happens again, and again,

Mikey, don't be surprised if the steroid doesn't work as fast as they say it does. It still took over a week after a trip to the doctor's office for the shot. I think different remedies work for different people;;;

Do what I do/did...........SCRATCH THE f#$#@#@ OUT OF IT TILL IT BLEEDS.......FEELS SOOOOOOOOO GOOOOD, SCARS SOOOOOOOO BAD!!... ....it's a NO win situation.
Good Lucky

[PI guy]

Run some water( as hot as you can stand it) over it. This will take the itch away, temporarily of course, but for some instant relief it's not bad.