Poisen Ivy

[mraynrand]

If you just get in the shower and soap off immediately after contact i've found that i rarely get the rash.

That's great advise...........but what do I do NOW???

You're fucked. Go to your physician and get a course of steroids - prednisone is the steroid of choice. Your body is having a hypersensitivity reaction and there's probably nothing you can do. At least the doc will be able to assess severity. It's possible it's not that bad, but it will likely get worse.

[oregonpackfan]

or benadryl maybe?? I'm blessedly immune to poison ivy, but I was a mean kid who abused the blessing, I'm probably going to hell.

As a kid, I discovered I was also immune to poison ivy. I used to tease my friends by rubbing poison ivy on my arms.

Yeah, I went to Catholic grade school. The nuns assured me I already have a place reserved for me in hell!

[packinpatland]

or benadryl maybe?? I'm blessedly immune to poison ivy, but I was a mean kid who abused the blessing, I'm probably going to hell.

As a kid, I discovered I was also immune to poison ivy. I used to tease my friends by rubbing poison ivy on my arms.

Yeah, I went to Catholic grade school. The nuns assured me I already have a place reserved for me in hell!

12 years of nuns..........you'd think I'd be immune
Honestly...........this is 'living hell'...

[MadtownPacker]

A couple of lines of some good blow usually take away all pain.

[Tarlam!]

I need a cure from Poison Ivy, too! :P

[Iron Mike]

http://www.jaxmed.com/articles/Diseases/poison_ivy_dermatitis.htm

You need to find an Impatiens capensis plant.

[packinpatland]

http://www.jaxmed.com/articles/Diseases/poison_ivy_dermatitis.htm

You need to find an Impatiens capensis plant.

That was interesting..........I've got ^ that all over the place.

[MJZiggy]

But really, did the blowdryer worked because it's worked for me in the past?

[packinpatland]

I did try the hair dryer last night.........but then it seemed to come back with a vengence. I wonder if there's 'window of time' when it works better. I'm like all 'blistery' right now.
Dr. gave me steroids.............

[hoosier]

I did try the hair dryer last night.........but then it seemed to come back with a vengence. I wonder if there's 'window of time' when it works better. I'm like all 'blistery' right now.
Dr. gave me steroids.............

If it's prednisone you got, do yourself a big favor and take it early in the day. Unless you want to be cleaning the house all night long.

[packinpatland]

It would take more than that to get me to 'house clean' !

Now, if I could mow the lawns at night...that'd be another thing.
Guess that could be one of the reasons I like Favre.........mutual love of lawn mowing.

[oregonpackfan]

It would take more than that to get me to 'house clean' !

Now, if I could mow the lawns at night...that'd be another thing.
Guess that could be one of the reasons I like Favre.........mutual love of lawn mowing.

Now there's a woman I like--one who will mow the lawn!

In my 27 years of marriage, my wife has mowed the lawn exactly twice. I was laid up with a broken ankle both times.

Her "allergies" allegedly keep her from mowing the lawn.

[hoosier]

It would take more than that to get me to 'house clean' !

Now, if I could mow the lawns at night...that'd be another thing.
Guess that could be one of the reasons I like Favre.........mutual love of lawn mowing.

Now there's a woman I like--one who will mow the lawn!

In my 27 years of marriage, my wife has mowed the lawn exactly twice. I was laid up with a broken ankle both times.

Her "allergies" allegedly keep her from mowing the lawn.

Maybe if she mowed the lawn more often you would discover that things were better when she didn't mow at all.

[packinpatland]

It would take more than that to get me to 'house clean' !

Now, if I could mow the lawns at night...that'd be another thing.
Guess that could be one of the reasons I like Favre.........mutual love of lawn mowing.

Now there's a woman I like--one who will mow the lawn!

In my 27 years of marriage, my wife has mowed the lawn exactly twice. I was laid up with a broken ankle both times.

Her "allergies" allegedly keep her from mowing the lawn.

Maybe if she mowed the lawn more often you would discover that things were better when she didn't mow at all.

Can't speak for OPF's wife...........but my 'lines' are perfectly straight.

Two years ago we bought a new rider.....a John Deere. One week into owning this thing (my husband hadn't even had the joy of riding it yet)....I'm out mowing. Got my big straw hat, music is on....and out of nowhere a bird dive bombs me, hits me in the forhead and knocks my hat off. My first reaction is to grab for the hat........taking my hands off the wheel.....but not off the gas. Smack! Head-on into a maple tree. Now,..... my theory is that mowers don't need headlights anyway.........
It still mows just fine........in fact I'm headed out there this afternoon......

[Deputy Nutz]

Next time you get it, it will be worse, and easier to get. Poison Ivy is horrible stuff. When I was a kid I got it from this big burm of weeds and trees we had separating our yard and the school. Well we played wiffle ball every day, and if you hit it in the burm, you had to go get it. Crawling through all that stuff you get in spots that make you question if there is a god, or if God is actually a man.

I never got it again. In fact I burned that Burm every year in the spring.