Freakin poison ivy

[Meatwad]

 


Swear this stuff singles me out everytime

[B-17]

it can smell the sausage virgin within you... 

[badhorse]

Never got into poison-ivy, but I have poison-oak. That stuff is no fun either. 

[fbWldcat]

Supposedly, if you ingest poison ivy/oak, you will never get it. Makes sense. You won't be alive to get it. Poison ivy sucks, my first and only bout with it led to impetigo that almost went septic. 

[Maverick]

It sounds a bit crazy but plain old lye soap works great to remove the oil from you and your clothes. It also helps dry out the reaction your skin has to it.

[hubsonfire]

http://www.zanfel.com/help/

I love this stuff.

[Krupinski]

I'm immune. 

[guncrasher]

It is illegal for poison ivy and poison oak to grow in California.  I can honestly say i have never seen it.  I lived in nc for 9 years and it wasnt allowed to come near me or my family  .

semp

[5anders]

I would never suggest anyone to do this unless you don't have sensitive skin, but I've always washed my arms really well with soap and a course rag and used a cotton ball full of bleach to kill it all out.  The course rag opens it up and the bleach kills it and drys it out.  By the next day it's still there but dried up and doesn't itch.  I've seen people try it with sensitive skin though and the Bleach eats them up worse than the ivy.  I used to weed eat for the City Parks and Recreation Dept. in my town.  Where I got it on a daily basis and used this method quite a lot.

[badhorse]

It is illegal for poison ivy and poison oak to grow in California.  I can honestly say i have never seen it.  I lived in nc for 9 years and it wasnt allowed to come near me or my family  .

semp

I grew up on the coastal area in northern Cal (on the ocean and in the redwoods)   Poison-oak was very common.
If any state would make a law prohibiting a native and wild growing plant it would be California.
 

[allaire]

I would never suggest anyone to do this unless you don't have sensitive skin, but I've always washed my arms really well with soap and a course rag and used a cotton ball full of bleach to kill it all out.  The course rag opens it up and the bleach kills it and drys it out.  By the next day it's still there but dried up and doesn't itch.  I've seen people try it with sensitive skin though and the Bleach eats them up worse than the ivy.  I used to weed eat for the City Parks and Recreation Dept. in my town.  Where I got it on a daily basis and used this method quite a lot.

I've used that method as well and it works good.  Only thing I can add to it is it burns like the dickens.

[Delirium]

It is illegal for poison ivy and poison oak to grow in California. 

If any state would make a law prohibiting a native and wild growing plant it would be California.

No doubt, that kind of law is incredibly stupid. Who are they going to charge, Mother Nature?

[gyrene81]

No doubt, that kind of law is incredibly stupid. Who are they going to charge, Mother Nature?

  imagine that case...the state of california v mother nature re: poison ivy/poison oak.   

[Delirium]

  imagine that case...the state of california v mother nature re: poison ivy/poison oak.   

It would never go to trial, or if it did, it was be a mistrial every  time as Mother Nature has a habit of poisoning jury pools or at least rubbing them the wrong way.

[Meatwad]

Ill have to try the bleach method. Think there is some oil residue somewhere since its spreading and I havent had contact with it since tuesday.