poison ivy remedy

[Laureli]

I picked weeds, bean, peas, tomatoes, and carrots... lots of picking! I am pretty certain the pea vines were a tangled mess and tangled with poison ivy. I have poison ivy on my hands... I was foolish, I know. I have been "washing" my hands a lot with my homemade laundry soap. I also found my dishwasher soap (homemade from receipe on here) didn't do a great job on my dishwasher dishes, but I have been dousing my hands with that. I just pat dry a little. I have also found some relief in spraying my hands with distilled vinegar. All in all it doesn't solve the problem of curing it. Will anything?

 

[newbskywalker]

burts bees poison ivy soap does a good job, it contains jewelweed which is a natural remedy for poison ivy. Also if you know you have been exposed to poison ivy, if possibly stop what you are doing and immediately go wash off the exposed areas with rubbing alchohol. The oils in the plant are what spreads around and causes the misery the alchohol helps wash it off.

 

[rhoda_bruce]

Are there any members of your family, that somehow don't get poison ivy? I only ask because my sibs and I don't get it, no matter what we do. Therefore its my responsibility to make the initial cleanup of the garden, every year before the rest of the family goes in there. I pull it out by the root and make huge piles of the stuff and set it all on fire, after everyone is safely inside. If DS would attempt to do that, it might mean a doctor visit.
Also, when I'm done, I"m off limits to everyone until I've been decontaminated. My clothes goes straight in the wash...alone with lots of soap and my bath stuff. No one goes outside at all to avoid the smoke.
I would think that you can probably come into contact with a small amt and quickly deal with your produce, provided you decontaminate yourself and clothes real quick, as I do, but in your case, you would be dangerous to your own self, where I'm only dangerous to everyone else......I guess if you hurry up and deal with yourself....less damage. I hope its not too bad. I guess you just best use aloe or oatmeal soaps and maybe a little (very little) bleach in your bath. Note: some would disagree with my last statement, but it does have a drying action, provided you don't burn your skin with it.

 

[hqueen13]

go swimming in a chlorinated pool. It works.
Or you can do like my other half when he used to work on the Durock line - put cement slurry on it. Gross, but it works. Dries everything out.

I don't think I'm allergic to it, but I'm not going to try to test that theory! Dry poison ivy is just as dangerous as live vines. Someone I know ended up with a REALLY bad case, when they were ripping out dead vines, and putting them in bags, and then squeezing all the air out of the bags, the crushed leaves constantly blew up out of the bag, and she had poison ivy ALL over her neck and upper chest. Not good!

 

[Mr.Andersson]

Jewel weed
http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=342354#p342354

 

[baymule]

Clorox. Best if immediately applied to keep from breaking out in blisters. Clorox in some water, make a weak mixture and just let it dry on your skin. I am horribly allergic to posion oak and clorox keeps me blister free!

 

[Laureli]

Swam in a YMCA pool. Relief. Then, started applying antibacterial lotion due to the blistering, drying and continuous oozing and reinfection. My fingers looked like they had gone through a meat grinder . It was quite torturous (sp? word even?), but lesson is learned.

 

[Bettacreek]

Oddly enough, I'm another one who doesn't get poison ivy. Now, I get a reaction to everything else, including grass, pine type stuff, etc. And allergic to ant bites, bee stings, etc. So, how I managed to not be sensitive to PI, I'll never know!

 

[Kingsfarm]

only thing that stopped " itching " is vinegar...vinegar...vinegar ,, even tried clorox ...didn't work....

 

[Zoldani]

Second the jewelweed.