Poison Ivy/Oak Remedy

Tom Bond · Sep 14, 2012

Well...Not sure which one I have but I do have one of them. Not sure if it's poison ivy from mowing with the 861 or poison Oak from hanging the treestands getting ready for archery season here in Illinois in 2 weeks. Either way, it's just starting to swell and blister. Any home remedies you know of to help? It's not bad enough to head to the Doc yet for a shot but would like to slow it down. Heading to West Layfayette for the Purdue game tomorrow and would like to enjoy the game instead of scratching.

Old Roy · Sep 14, 2012

scrub it with Clorox to dry up broken blisters to keep oil from spreading it's gonna burn , but it helps.

old · Sep 14, 2012

Spray a rag with carb cleaner spray you get from say an O'Reilly's and then wipe the area. It will or may burn some but after doing that you will not have any problems with it in the next 24 hours or less it will be gone. I use it or did use it all the time but seems that I have little or not problem with it since I started doing that years ago

PJH · Sep 14, 2012

Here's a link to a video about the touch-me-not plant. It's a good cure for poison ivy, and it grows in every shady creek bottom in Illinois. Crush the stem of the plant and rub the juice on the affected area. A guy that I worked with rigged up some sort of press to collect the juice so he would have a cure in the off season. Poor guy would catch poison ivy in the dead of winter if he got in the smoke from a brush pile fire.

Paul
Jewel weed/touch me not

Stephen Newell · Sep 14, 2012

Never heard of jewel weed. I will have to try it if I can find it in Texas. I'm not sure sometimes that my cure for poison ivy is worse than the itchy. By accident I got paint and varnish remover on some poison ivy when I was refinishing a piece of furniture and it got rid if it in a few hours. Sometimes I get desperate enough to trade a chemical burn for the itchy.

Geo-TH,In · Sep 14, 2012

Tom,
Tecnu poison ivy wash. I love it, works great. Carry a tube in truck and apply as soon as I think I got into poison ivy. Don't even bother to wash the scrub off. Can get it at Walmart, Walgreens, Krogers. $12-16 but worth it. Try it, sure you will thank me later.

George

onefarmer · Sep 14, 2012

I'll second the Tech-nu. And after the first wash I use mint oil to hold down the itch and dry up any blisters.

gene bender · Sep 15, 2012

Go to a Doctor we are all different and cure is different for everyone. I used to get it real bad didnt even need to make contac. Got shots for a couple yrs now it doesent bother at all. Too many types of plants can cause it. Oak, Sumac and others. Dont mess around but i sure would see a doctor quick when you say its starting to blister.

Dachshund · Sep 15, 2012

Tumeric....Make a paste and rub it on.

showcrop · Sep 15, 2012

I have gotten a little here and there many times. Just when it blisters and gets real itchy, it seems that the next day it is gone.

Kevin Little · Sep 15, 2012

Technu is a good product, but I respond better to Jewel weed/Touch-Me-Not. We find it along mountain streams that we fish and guide on and I harvest a trash bag full each year. For immediate use, I press it with an old coffee french press and pour off the juice. For keeping, I chop up the leaves and stems, put in a pot and cover with water. Bring to a light boil and turn off heat. Steep for 20 minutes, then pour the resulting tea into old ice cube trays marked so the wife doesn't get the wrong ones. Freeze the juice into cubes, put them in a large Ziploc bag and store in the freezer to use when needed.

El Toro · Sep 15, 2012

My wife said she had it so bad when she walked through the smoke when her dad was burning it, that her eyes were swollen shut. Her dad could lay down in it and never had any itching. Hal

CAROGATOR · Sep 15, 2012

Use meat tenderizer for thr poison ivy and bee stings.

Walt Davies · Sep 15, 2012

Grandmother used Felsnaptha soap to wash with after being
out in the stuff. My sister Diana was the only one of us who
would get it bad from washing our clothes. Us three younger
kids would play in the stuff.
Walt

HenryO · Sep 15, 2012

Jewell weed is the best ever. You can usually get the extract at local health food stores, not the big chain stores. It grows along the banks of streams in most of the southern states and possibly Indiana and Ill and southern Ohio

Ol' Gimpy · Sep 15, 2012

An outfit in Missouri makes some effective jewelweed based products.I get mine from them via eVilbay.

spacecadet9 · Sep 16, 2012

(quoted from post at 20:41:10 09/14/12)Not sure which one I have poison ivy or poison Oak.

Antihistamine!! The rash is simply an allergic reaction.

36 Coupe · Sep 16, 2012

My mother picked sweet fern boiled it in water.After cooling it was put on the blisters.Another old remedy is vinegar put on when you have been exposed to poison ivy.

36 Coupe · Sep 16, 2012

Doctor told me years ago that antihistamines are hard on the heart and have to be used with caution.

Yukon3639 · Sep 16, 2012

(quoted from post at 18:41:10 09/14/12) Well...Not sure which one I have but I do have one of them. Not sure if it's poison ivy from mowing with the 861 or poison Oak from hanging the treestands getting ready for archery season here in Illinois in 2 weeks. Either way, it's just starting to swell and blister. Any home remedies you know of to help? It's not bad enough to head to the Doc yet for a shot but would like to slow it down. Heading to West Layfayette for the Purdue game tomorrow and would like to enjoy the game instead of scratching.

Ban roll on deodorant
Works great on some people

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