Poison ivy takes over the world!!

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✯Ꮋεαr ηο Ꭼνίl✯ Jun 12, 2013

It's spreading all over me, help! I pulled the vine of poison ivy unaware it was poison ivy until I was holding it in my hand.
Wyster Jun 12, 2013

Go see a doctor?
FRΞΞ☠ΜΛSΟΠ Jun 12, 2013

✯Ꮋεαr ηο Ꭼνίl✯ wrote:
It's spreading all over me, help! I pulled the vine of poison ivy unaware it was poison ivy until I was holding it in my hand.

I used to roll around in that stuff when I was a kid so I wouldn't have to go to school. Unfortunately, it has no effect on me.
Talk to me nice Jun 12, 2013

I've never had poison ivy.
I҈T҈A҈C҈H҈I҈ Jun 12, 2013

FRΞΞ☠ΜΛSΟΠ wrote:
✯Ꮋεαr ηο Ꭼνίl✯ wrote:
It's spreading all over me, help! I pulled the vine of poison ivy unaware it was poison ivy until I was holding it in my hand.

I used to roll around in that stuff when I was a kid so I wouldn't have to go to school. Unfortunately, it has no effect on me.
I'm immune to it also but is it possible for to to go away? My dad use to be immune to it but became hyper allergic a few years ago could this happen to me????
mdpaulk Jun 12, 2013

A fact I learned recently.
You can wash it off with handsoap, if it has been less than 30 minutes, after touching it.
Ojibwe Jun 12, 2013

☦ĐΣ⅃✪ɃØ$ℚ℧Σᵗᵡ☦ wrote:
FRΞΞ☠ΜΛSΟΠ wrote:
✯Ꮋεαr ηο Ꭼνίl✯ wrote:
It's spreading all over me, help! I pulled the vine of poison ivy unaware it was poison ivy until I was holding it in my hand.

I used to roll around in that stuff when I was a kid so I wouldn't have to go to school. Unfortunately, it has no effect on me.
I'm immune to it also but is it possible for to to go away? My dad use to be immune to it but became hyper allergic a few years ago could this happen to me????
Yes, more exposure can lead to more reaction, sometimes.
hotrodtech Jun 12, 2013

Dawn dish soap to remove the oils that the vine left behind , or I use brakekleen and spray on infected area it will remove the oils too
Boner Jams '03 Jun 12, 2013

Be sure to wash your hands before eating or doing private stuff. Got that nasty shit in my mouth one time. Unpleasant to say the least.

Scientists claim that after the age of 35 most people "grow out of it" (the reaction that is). I would rather not test that theory.
Add CARP Jun 12, 2013

☦ĐΣ⅃✪ɃØ$ℚ℧Σᵗᵡ☦ wrote:
FRΞΞ☠ΜΛSΟΠ wrote:
✯Ꮋεαr ηο Ꭼνίl✯ wrote:
It's spreading all over me, help! I pulled the vine of poison ivy unaware it was poison ivy until I was holding it in my hand.

I used to roll around in that stuff when I was a kid so I wouldn't have to go to school. Unfortunately, it has no effect on me.
I'm immune to it also but is it possible for to to go away? My dad use to be immune to it but became hyper allergic a few years ago could this happen to me????
It's actually an allergic reaction, so yes, it can. I never had it once in 16 years of tromping around in the woods, then got it last year, though minor. Like Ojibwe said, the more contact, the higher chance of becoming allergic.
qweeter1997 Jun 12, 2013

Up in AK, poison ivy is a problem when hiking. I've been lucky and only got a little bit on my hand once. What you need to do is keep the infected part in the shade. It gets worse in the sunlight.
qweeter1997 Jun 12, 2013

👆 And of course wash it out when ya get home and see a doctor if it gets bad, but keep it in the shade until you get home to minimize the pain.
✯Ꮋεαr ηο Ꭼνίl✯ Jun 12, 2013

My boss said to slap some mud on it when I was out working and it helps alot. It soothes the itch and as it dries, it pulls out some of the oils.
☠ðůﾅ⌖ʟḁẘ☠ Jun 13, 2013

Poison oak is worst
fun6754 Jun 13, 2013

💀༄्ཧ़ཀंེབ།༨ཛყ༄💀 wrote:
Poison oak is worst

Nettle is even worse.
€₳₱₮₳ī₦🌍₱ḻ₳₦ē₮ Jun 13, 2013

fun6754 wrote:
💀༄्ཧ़ཀंེབ།༨ཛყ༄💀 wrote:
Poison oak is worst

Nettle is even worse.
No its not. Nettle barely hurts in only one spot for 30 minutes tops. Poison ivy and poison oak spread all over your body and stays for quite a while
Guywithagun72 Jun 13, 2013

Mix together athlete's foot creme, Cortazone creme, and a moisturizing creme together and once well mixed apply to the area with poison ivy and in the next few days it should go away. Before this stuff my allergic reaction to poison was.....bad to say the least. Hope this helps and hope it goes away soon.
✯Ꮋεαr ηο Ꭼνίl✯ Jun 13, 2013

The thing is that I work outside daily where it is 95-100 degrees. I sweat like a pig and I hear it is critical to keep your poison ivy rash dry...which I have been failing to do.
ꑄϮ༱ꋬསϧξ༱ Jun 14, 2013

Helps to wrap it in ducktape to keep it from spreading. Words of wisdom I wish I followed when I was first told that.. 😁 But I'm serious, it does help, a lot
🔥SirTalkALot🔥 Jun 14, 2013

Most people aren't allergic to poison ivy or oak.
I had poison oak in my backyard in my old house sense I was a kid. And every week or so I would pull it out. Never realized it was poison oak until like 4 years later.
✯Ꮋεαr ηο Ꭼνίl✯ Jun 14, 2013

ꑄϮ༱ꋬསϧξ༱ wrote:
Helps to wrap it in ducktape to keep it from spreading. Words of wisdom I wish I followed when I was first told that.. 😁 But I'm serious, it does help, a lot

Hmm interesting. I might do that. Gonna have the physician check it out tomorrow. Still spreading bad and not healing.
✯Ꮋεαr ηο Ꭼνίl✯ Jun 14, 2013

🔥SirTalkALot🔥 wrote:
Most people aren't allergic to poison ivy or oak.
I had poison oak in my backyard in my old house sense I was a kid. And every week or so I would pull it out. Never realized it was poison oak until like 4 years later.

I read that about 85% of people have some sort of allergic reaction to poison ivy/oak.
sebastian5367 Jun 19, 2013

qweeter1997 wrote:
Up in AK, poison ivy is a problem when hiking. I've been lucky and only got a little bit on my hand once. What you need to do is keep the infected part in the shade. It gets worse in the sunlight.

Keep it out of the sunlight? What is it a vampire or a rash?
♠️ADD TURFA♠️ Jun 19, 2013

sebastian5367 wrote:
qweeter1997 wrote:
Up in AK, poison ivy is a problem when hiking. I've been lucky and only got a little bit on my hand once. What you need to do is keep the infected part in the shade. It gets worse in the sunlight.

Keep it out of the sunlight? What is it a vampire or a rash?
Heat?
TrailerTrash 💔 Jun 19, 2013

Amputation.
🚲ȅɭ💀Ꮥṯ⁅ℽℯ🚲 Jun 19, 2013

I would recomend carrying Tecnu skin cleanser in your car or with you when you might be in an outdoor place and potentially exposed. It will neutralize the urushiol. Never wash with hot water it opens your pores and allows for more absorbsion of the urushiol. Also the urushiol can stay on your clothes so wash everything you might have been wearing. And avoid Handling mango skin it contains similar oils if you are allergic. I love the outdoors but poison oak and I don't get along. hang in there. It doesn't spread it just pops up in places your skin has absorbed it.
≣☰〓CRͣAͩCͩKA〓☰≣ Jun 19, 2013

M₳Ŧ ƷX ¥Ө wrote:
I've never had poison ivy.
Hyena Jun 19, 2013

〓 CRͣAͩCͩKA 〓 wrote:
M₳Ŧ ƷX ¥Ө wrote:
I've never had poison ivy.

Neither have I but she was hot in that Batman movie..... 😻
♠️ADD TURFA♠️ Jun 19, 2013

Hyena wrote:
〓 CRͣAͩCͩKA 〓 wrote:
M₳Ŧ ƷX ¥Ө wrote:
I've never had poison ivy.

Neither have I but she was hot in that Batman movie..... 😻
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✯Ꮋεαr ηο Ꭼνίl✯ Jun 19, 2013

тʊʀғᵃ wrote:
Hyena wrote:
〓 CRͣAͩCͩKA 〓 wrote:
M₳Ŧ ƷX ¥Ө wrote:
I've never had poison ivy.

Neither have I but she was hot in that Batman movie..... 😻
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Lol yes she was.