Does posion ivy etc get you down?

[Moxiechick]

I've heard that goats are good at ridding patches of it. Apparently, it doesn't affect them!

 

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

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Exactly!! This stuff has been my saving grace. I am another one of those people that is unfortunate enough to catch it just from being in the vague vicinity of the crap! My hubby isn't allergic to it.. So I make him wash up real good before I will let him near me.. I am that allergic to it!

 

[babylady4]

Sounds like your sweetie needs to take a trip to the doctor and get set-up on a round of predisone....

I had it all over my face once; it was so bad my lips swelled to 3x their normal size and one of my eyes was swelled shut.......

Thank goodess I have NEVER had it that badly again!!!!!! Luckily no scars either!

 

[youngbiddy]

Baking soda paste takes the itch and swelling out. I haven't gotten it since I was a kid, I don't seem to react to it anymore. But I don't go looking for it, either. LOL

 

[hollymh]

I'm immune to poison ivy and oak, I don't know about sumac, but my poor husband just looks at it and breaks into blisters. Bless his heart. Hope you guys get better quickly!

 

[ChikeeMomma]

I used to get it when I was little (never severe, though). Now I may get one or two little blisters if I rolled around in it. I'm usually fine to walk through it.

My hubby on the other hand is a different story. He didn't get it much as a youngster, but now gets a bad case of it at least once a year. Just two weeks ago, he had to go in and get a script for Prednisone to get rid of it. He usually gets one spot somewhere on his body that just oozes and oozes severely and has to go it because it won't clear up. This past episode, he was clearing some weeds from an area -- hoping to have a separate pumpkin patch this year. There was even a little snow on the ground still. We pretty much know where the poison ivy is around here and I have never noticed any where he was working. Well, there much have been some because he got it. And it would have been dead from winter, but I know you can still get it in the winter, too -- as long as you get some of it's nasty oil on you, you'll get it. When I called the doc's office to get him in, they didn't believe me that it was poison ivy because there was still snow on the ground. They believed it when they saw it though!

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Until I turned twenty-five I used to be able to pull the stuff out of the ground with my bare hands and sometimes did.

When I turned twenty five however it suddenly began to eat me alive. I have to be careful mowing the areas of my property where it's thick now.

Just because you do not react NOW does not mean you may not react sometime in the future. Sensitivities can and do build up slowly over time just as it did with me.

I'll also endorse the Tec-Nu soap. I always keep a bottle at the house now after my brother who used to work as a forest tech recommended it to me. He would occasionally have to work in very heavily infested areas and said when used as a preventative and an after-wash he'd be able to mark the entire area and not break out. Can sometimes be a chore to find the stuff though.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! I've always been *lucky* and haven't had a reaction to poison ivy .
I've never been allergic to anything and Tom says he hasn't either. Tom just said he's working on developing an allergy to chickens and chicken dust and the 'considerate thing' would be to get rid of all the chickens in advance --- but he's just kidding.
Hugs to all the itchers,

Lisa

 

[hennyannie]

I just need to look at poison ivy and the stuff breaks out on me!

 

[hennyannie]

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One year my aunt rented some goats to clear the woods behind her house. She was at the doctor a couple times for severe rashes before she figured out that leading the goats in at night was where she was getting the rash!