Poison ivy chip in eye

[CurSedVoyce]

Wish I could come up and help ya mang... Better me than you and some others here.

 

[squisher]

Come up and help me with my P.I.? That sounds kind of ghey.

Just razzing ya Stephen.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Hey money is money.. And PI or PO is my bread and butter

 

[squisher]

Yah I remember you're not really reactive to the stuff at all. You're lucky. PI just grows as a little bit of ground cover here, and there's not much of it around but I still managed to find a bit.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Katy puffs up like like Princess Fiona from Shrek .... She can't get near the stuff. I can totally sympathize mang. Kids have been lucky so far... I am in the shat every day for the most part. Some It don't take much...

 

[squisher]

I have zero tolerance for the stuff. As soon as I felt this bit coming on I've been having atleast three showers a day and scrubbing and scorching the shat off. Everything is getting washed constantly right now. Bedding one night only.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

TSP in the wash helps.. I also keep alcohol in the truck with rags for washing off from time to time with for those that get it. And tech nu...

 

[thattreeguy]

ahh suck it up......ya got paid didnt ya...itch your way to the bank

i just got some for the 1 st real time, got it in a big scratch on the love handle
great reminder of the jackass i was working for that day

 

[Highclimber]

I get it bad I look at a picture and get it in fact I think I got some PO from reading this thread. Up where I hunt it gets to be like a forest the shrubs get to be about ten feet tall or so it's bad stuff man.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Since I've been religiously wearing long sleeves, I'm not affected anymore. I've even stopped using Oral Ivy.

Long sleeves RAWK!!!

 

[squisher]

I was a itchy mofo last night.

 

[Tree Reb]

I feel sorry for you, been through that with a Rhus, http://dermnetnz.org/dermatitis/plants/rhus.html

We also had a plague of itchy grubs once, they were worse. They left webs everywhere, you only had to go near them and you were itichy.

 

[woodworkingboy]

You guys with the poison itching, you really need to try the half laundry bleach half water remedy, applied a few times a day. It works really good. It stops the itching and dries it out pretty quick. Diluting the bleach to half strength wont burn your skin.

Another good thing for crazy itching, is to hold the infected body part under as hot of water as you can stand, for a couple minutes. While doing that, the itching will become quite intensified, you barely can stand it, but immediately after, you're good for a couple hours.

 

[Highclimber]

Another good thing for crazy itching, is to hold the infected body part under as hot of water as you can stand, for a couple minutes. While doing that, the itching will become quite intensified, you barely can stand it, but immediately after, you're good for a couple hours.

your right I do that once the infection spreads a bit and it does work. afterwords after the hot water I like to use calimine lotion witch works well.

 

[Cobleskill]

Jewelweed grows in shaded kind of damp areas-a lot of places where poison ivy grows. You crush the stems and put the juice on like calamine. It lasts about as long as calamine. You can boil it and save it for the offseason too.

 

[stehansen]

All that stuff gets to me.

 

[Dave Shepard]

I was brushcutting last week in pi and jewelweed. The jewelweed is so succulent that I was soaked with the juices. I don't get pi anyway, but thought it kind of ironic that I was not only getting plastered with pi pieces, but also the cure.

 

[squisher]

Another good thing for crazy itching, is to hold the infected body part under as hot of water as you can stand, for a couple minutes. While doing that, the itching will become quite intensified, you barely can stand it, but immediately after, you're good for a couple hours.

This is my primary form of treatment.

 

[gf beranek]

I was taking some pics of the coastline a couple of weeks ago and was laying in the poision oak in order to get the foreground flowers in the picture. Yup, got I got the PO. Not bad.

Normally I wouldn't catch it at all, but my immune response is becoming weak since I quit working.

For most people the more they are in contact with the toxin the less their systematic response will be.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I never was susceptible to it until I suddenly got it bad, could roll in it with no effect. Now I get it easily after contact.

 

[squisher]

I'm wondering about my PI? My uncle told me today that people that are very reactive to it can have it re-occur without being exposed to it again. Anyone heard of this? Because I look for the shat and I don't recall seeing any this year or recently but I was working on the Westside basically the only place around that has any. Just wondering if all the stress from my bucket truck incident and my recent audit could have caused it to come back at all. It's way lighter then last year but in basically the same spot?

Anyone heard of it recurring or is my uncle out of er?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

If it gets in the blood... yes.

 

[squisher]

It's basically right on a year ago that I got it bad. It couldn't come back on it's own after that long though could it?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Never seen that happen.. More like a matter of weeks.... Never a year.

 

[gf beranek]

It's kind of like shingles in a way. I say that only because the symptoms can flare up and recede back and forth during post exposure.