Poison ivy on a tree.. vine as thick as my arm. Dad hacked with an axe, got sap POURED on him. No effect !! One of the lucky ones. I've been able to rip it out of the garden by hand with no effect. I'm 77 now, just got it on my arm and face. DANG! Dawn not fast enough. Insane itching. Cala Gel (clear) and antihistamines rescue. Every human is different. Gloves and long sleeves for me.
@dontwalkdontrun I have found as an adult, after having it all the time growing up in the country, I am less susceptible to it. Although at the moment I do find myself with a few small rashes and some extreme itching, but the plant was very large healthy and must have had quite a bit of the oil on it.
I've never had poison ivy in my life until this year and I've got it right now for the 3rd time it sucks.. i've always been an outside person I'm mid 50s maybe he just explained it to me.
what!? Soooo many resources praise dawn dish soap. It can actually spread it? To be honest, I do believe the alcohol seems like it should do a better job. With that being said, it's so frustrating when there are so many contradicting remedies out there.
I am highly allergic and can identify it even while driving down a highway. Beware in winter, the urusiol oil is present even in bare branches and the hairy vines as well. It can also stick to your dogs coat for a very long time, spreading it to you at every pet. TECNU is the best post contact solution, it’s pretty much deodorized mineral spirits in gel form. I am a land surveyor with 20 years experience. Good luck
I’m in week 3 and nothing has helped even the prescription from the doctors didn’t cure. I am out of ideas right now. Please let me know if anything helped in your case. Thanks in advance.
@@sudersanduwal379 Week 2 here, had to start antibiotics and corticosteroid 5 days ago, it's the first day that i'm not that itchy so I can sleep at least... the solutions that still work for me is colloidal oatmeal bath and or cream + intense cool shower at 2 am and that's all... calamine lotion and plantain leaves were very good at the begining, but not anymore. Green clay + apple vinager cider seams to be a good option, but did not try. So yeah, not taht itchy but what a mess in my instestines... Good luck on your side :)
@@Chameleonade Yes I also woke up at 2 am lol and took a shower cos I couldn’t stand the itchiness🥵. I got the second round of order of antibiotic couple days ago and I’m using Tecnu cream which has worked best for me so far. I’ve tried oatmeal bath, ACV, calamine lotion, cream prescribed by my doctor….I guess my skin is just getting super sensitive now. I had poison ivy/oak reaction 3-4 times few years back but nowhere near as bad as it is now. No one should go through the pain and agony I am going through just for touching a plant if u ask me lol
One of the best thing to do is just to have a spray of rubbing alcohol OR some alcohol based hand sanitizers on hand, alcohol actually dissolves and neutralize the oil in the poison ivy plants (urushiol), so bringing a compact source of it can be pretty helpful.
@Jennifer Maple Yep, any kind of alcohol will do to clean clothes and inactivate urushiol, from what I know by experience higher percentage alcohol on skin can make it dry more easily so you gotta watch out for that but as long as you dont have to use it on mucous membranes I think youll be fine with the more pure stuff. ALTHOUGH I wouldnt recommend putting it on your skin either depending of how sensible you are to it, maybe dillute it in some water before doing so would do the trick in that case ? Its all around better to use it on your gears and immediately on your skin if you fell in a poison ivy plant patch or any situation where you cant get to soap and water, if you can get to a bathroom just put soap on the affected area and clean it with water then wipe it with a wet cloth, I've seen lots of people say and some even demonstrate that would be the best way to avoid the rashes caused by that oil (its still oil so its pretty hard to get off the skin just like motor oil).
@@tsukishimakei5079 Yep its mostly isopropyl alcohol and that works fine just make sure you get the spot that got urishiol on it within 6 or 8 hours of contact with the plant, apparently that's how long you got till your skin starts reacting allergically and violently with very painful rashes.
I wish I would've remembered what drug my doctor gave me. It was in 2009 and I had the worst case he'd seen in years, all over my body and was spreading into my mouth(I was young and didn't know to wash everything). But once I got that drug it only took a little while and it was all gone.
Every exposure makes it worse. As a kid I would rub it on myself and nothing would happen. Got it once in college and now I have to take steroids every Summer or it is terrible.
Been having problems with this crap for a few months now. Went away for two months and it's back at this very moment. Back to treatments again. All over hands and arms. I have a rabbit that is outside all the time . Maybe I just got it again from holding it . 🤔
@@lindavid794 you only think you know what I have been through...I'll tell you just one thing I have experienced in my life ...walked from Iraq to Turkey in the mountains for 2 months with a bullet in my back ...all you need is water
