12-30-2006, 04:39 AM
Hopefully you have washed all the poison ivy "juice" off your skin first...
Or you will start spreading it!
Good old fashioned soap, and a not-hot shower... systematic scrubbing of every square inch.. .and twice where you REALLY don't want the rash. Repeat three times over 3-4 hours.
OR use something like Tec-Nu Poison Oak and Ivy cleanser... And in the future, use Tec-Nu Poison Oak and Ivy Armor to keep from getting exposed in the first place.
The stuff works like MAGIC.
Some friends and I expose ourselves every year to huge quantities of Poison Oak up at a friends cabin. Not intentionally, but pretty much ALL the green undergrowth IS poison oak around there.
We're pretty sure by the smell and texture that the Tec-Nu cleanser (which is VERY effective if you use it within an hour of exposure) is either all, or mostly, mineral spirits.
We had it so bad one year that we were all quite close to just burning all our belongings, along with the cabin, and driving naked directly to a hazmat equiped hospital...
After that trip, we became experts at three things;
Recognising Poison Oak.
Cleaning and treating poison oak "wounds" and
Exterminating that satanic weed with everything handy.
Or you will start spreading it!
Good old fashioned soap, and a not-hot shower... systematic scrubbing of every square inch.. .and twice where you REALLY don't want the rash. Repeat three times over 3-4 hours.
OR use something like Tec-Nu Poison Oak and Ivy cleanser... And in the future, use Tec-Nu Poison Oak and Ivy Armor to keep from getting exposed in the first place.
The stuff works like MAGIC.
Some friends and I expose ourselves every year to huge quantities of Poison Oak up at a friends cabin. Not intentionally, but pretty much ALL the green undergrowth IS poison oak around there.
We're pretty sure by the smell and texture that the Tec-Nu cleanser (which is VERY effective if you use it within an hour of exposure) is either all, or mostly, mineral spirits.
We had it so bad one year that we were all quite close to just burning all our belongings, along with the cabin, and driving naked directly to a hazmat equiped hospital...
After that trip, we became experts at three things;
Recognising Poison Oak.
Cleaning and treating poison oak "wounds" and
Exterminating that satanic weed with everything handy.