Next time bring toilet paper with you camping..
Never go camping without it. |
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probably a good idea to have your wife or girlfriend suck out the poison.
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WalMarts, Wallgreens, pretty much any place with a pharmacy will have it. Since I get out stomping around in the weeds fishing I come up with it about once a summer and Ivarest does the trick, cools the itch and dries out the bumps. |
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:huh: Why would one never go camping? I do not comprehend. |
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Try this as an experiment. I'm curious.
http://www.poison-ivy.org/html/stories.htm At the first sign of irritation caused by poison ivy/oak, wash the area with soap and water if possible, but in any case, spray (never use a stick or roll-on) the area with an antiperspirant containing aluminum chlorhydrate. Arrid Extra Dry was a favorite, but any kind that is not too sticky will work. Simple deodorants won't work; it must be an antiperspirant! This material reacts with the urushiol, the principal irritant in poison ivy/oak, and deactivates it. It will even provide relief and start healing when oozing blisters are present. |
There is a remedy for the itching.
A hair dryer. Hold a hair dryer over your skin. It will itch. Then itch worse, then burn. Then it will be terrible. It takes about 30 seconds. When you are done, you will not itch there for 6-8 hours. You can also do this with super hot water in the shower. It is the ONLY remedy. |
Kid that works for me isn't allergic. we had some growing behind the shop lay week and he pulled it by hand.
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I used to rub it on my hands and arms then go around touching/wrestle w people! Usually it was when I was camping and drunk! This type of behavior will piss people off lol.
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The ingredient in poison ivy that makes you react is the oil in the plant. The itch comes from your body reacting(overreacting) to the oil. So treating poison ivy involves 2 parts. Removing the poison ivy oil from the skin, and stopping your body's immune system from reacting to the oil(making you itch). Antiperspirant can help with that because it acts to dry the skin, and hopefully the oil. But I wouldn't say it "Deactivates" it. |
I'm resistant to the effects of it. My father and brother are also resistant to the rash. By that I mean none of us have ever had a rash from Poison Ivy. I can still spread it though so I just have to wash really good if I touch it.
A buddy of mine is super sensitive. If he touches it his whole BODY breaks out in a rash. As a kid it even got into his lungs and almost killed him. |
The Drifters remedy....
Your going to need an ocean
of calamine lotion........ |
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