I've had great results using a paste made with dishsoap and baking soda. Applying the paste and then using a damp rag, and begin washing in the shower. IVYRest has been great to help stop the itch for a few hrs. I repeat washing every time itch returns for an active rash.
@happysawfish
3 ай бұрын
Good video. Highly allergic to poison ivy and many other plants of the vine which provide the same horrific symptoms. I hate this stuff more than i can say. But I love to work outside so have to pay the price by wearing long sleeve shirts, eye protection, long tall boots, and I have amassed a collection of gloves the world has seldom seen! The best are leather with extended cuffs that come out about halfway down your arm. You need these to try to guarantee to avoid contact with these evil plants. Learn to IDENTIFY the things. I made a short vid and will post. EASIEST WAY to get infected: when you never see them. How could this happen you say? You brush your lawn with your hand or pull some weeds or whatever but lurking beneath is the very small, undeveloped poison ivy. They start out tiny. They start out from invisible to barely in existence and grow from there like any other plant. People forget this simple fact. This applies especially when using the good old weed TRIMMER. Gas or electric, it doesn't matter folks, that weed whacker is going to spray noxious crap all around you. It gets down your collar, on your pants, in your pants, in your shoes, the stuff will get in your eyes, your nose, and parts you don't want to discuss. When you have to use the weed trimmer in woodsy areas, you're going to encounter your new friend here at some point. This friend wants to kill you and make you miserable. Your best option: suit up to do your work, you have to be clever and ingenious. Even when finished, if you know you've likely whacked some of the unfriendly enemy plants, then you GoJo all areas which might be effected. Apply it, let it sit for a bit. Take a lukewarm shower and wash off the residue with your best soap bar. Some people swear by a product called Fels-Naptha soap also for this. My best advice from years of fighting this: if you get it on you, don't panic. Go immediately and wash it. Dawn dish soap indeed can work. The technique described in this video is valid, right on. I also recommend lathering with a mechanic's grease remover, like they use in the shop. GoJo is one brand. Lather the effected areas. Let it sit maybe 30 seconds while it dissolves the or lifts the oily poison impregnated substance from your skin. Do not do NOT use hard or abrasive scrubbing that could open your skin and let the poison oils slide right in. No no no. Do not use HOT water or scalding water. Same result can happen. Use cool or minimally mildly warm water to slide the soap and grease removers off you. If the rash appears, you may not be too late. FIRST STEP: REMOVE THE POISON OILS. Yes, do the above. You simply must get this stuff off your skin. It's not going to go away on it's on, folks. Take action. It's a pain in the tail but get used to it. You'll be happy you did. Lately, I wash my arms several times with whatever we have available just to try to stay ahead. As a woodsman, I have to be vigilant about this stuff. You're outside. Here's your clue to be cautious: IF YOU SEE ONE plant, you're going to find more. More often than not, they're clustered like a wave of greenery about a foot high off the ground in mass. But in other areas that have not been invaded and saturated, you have to look. You look around, and there it is. A young plant or a single stalk. But guess what? That's not the end. They link together in a vine / root that runs very shallow underneath the soil surface. You see one group of Leaves of Three, then you'll find another stalk, and usually several in the general vicinity. It's June 2024 today. The stuff is growing in the SE United States in various stages. From last year, you will find it proliferating up trees sprouting from an evil hairy vine. The vine can confuse you because they start out so thin you may miss it, then over time they can get HUGE. In the ground there is what must be a rhizome that stores whatever it needs. You can cut the vine, the plant will spring back out. A devoted anti Poison Ivy expert on YT spent time digging out a tremendous root. It looked like a firewood log. Preventative double-safe: if you know you've been in areas where the stuff is, go ahead and wash your body with GoJo, Dawn, etc. You may not have contacted it but it may have contacted you by secondary means. A piece of wood. Another plant. Doggies. Chickens. Ducks, whatever you have. We love our little animals. Go and enjoy without fear.
@stacyrosa6672
4 ай бұрын
I'm 62 years old, and avid native plant gardener. I've been exposed to poison ivy many times, but was never affected, until today! I have a big patch of blistering on my butt...and it did take 4 days to show up! I am using a prescription strength steroid cream, which seems to be effective on the inflammation. and itch, almost immediately. I wouldn't take oral steroids unless I was covered in rash.
@ManusMagus
2 ай бұрын
Zanfel is the only product worth buying. It's expensive AF, but it does have a special property of enveloping the urushiol and washing it away. If you do develope a rash, use fast orange degreasing hand scrub from the automotive department. Then wash with dawn. I do a bleach bath ( best immediate treatment is a highly chlorinated bath/swim), then do the zanfel treatment, and then use the orange scrub with each shower to ensure that everything comes out of the skin
@kelleyhall1869
3 ай бұрын
This was helpful, thank you!
@PrednisonePharmacist
3 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@adamslip1
4 ай бұрын
Best thorough advice dealing with poison Ivy. Thank you!
@PrednisonePharmacist
4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your support!
@babion9479
Ай бұрын
So I haven't had PI for about 10 years and practically forgot about it. Poof! I found I have it and before I knew it, I had it (bad) in several parts of my body. I wasn't able to react after exposure as it was days later. So this doesn't work, and that doesn't work, but I'm going completely out of my mind and even wake up in the middle of the night scratching the **** out of my arms and hands. I found one thing that works (temporarily) is an ice pak/ cold compress etc... Probably not the ideal solution, but after I scratch it a bit, a healthy dose of salt not only stings (so good) but also stops the itching.. permanently, Sure my arm looks like a 1970's road map, but at least I can sleep
@baneverything5580
2 ай бұрын
It`s destroying my right hand. I cut into a large root back in March getting forest soil for a garden and got the sap on my hand and in mid July it`s still blistering and itching and making deep sores on my hand and wrist.
@neil_nice5252
2 ай бұрын
See a real doctor immediately! Meds work. Prednisone and antibiotics for normal. Hope you find relief.
@michelleherron6626
2 ай бұрын
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!! i am dealing with poisin ivy rash again!! I DO NOT want to take steroids!! iN THE PAST BEFORE I HEARD ABOUT THE Dawn dish soap option I did have VERY BAD reactions !! a red swollen face and spreading rash !! This time i got a little careless and didn't thoroughly dawn my whole body 3 times and forgot that I wiped my sweaty brow and did not dawn there so I broke out a little on my forehead and neck only!! It is day 7 after exposure and it's not spreading! SO thanks to your video I am not going to ask my doctor for steroid shots and '6 packs' this time and wait it out!!YAY!!
@JoseColomer-e9u
4 ай бұрын
❤❤❤ Thank you so much! I wish I would have found this 2 days ago.
@PrednisonePharmacist
4 ай бұрын
Appreciate your kind words!
@PaulineMatthews-de5gw
3 ай бұрын
For the itch l put on caster oil ,it is not immediately but in about 20 minutes l felt relief
@DDD11239
3 ай бұрын
I got Prednisone the next day. Quick act.
@ManusMagus
2 ай бұрын
8:33 just make sure you've taken care of all the oil before using any creams
@donnarobinson5255
2 ай бұрын
Prednisone made me sick, so here I am suffering, it is all over my face, my eyes were swollen shut, I’m severely allergic, steroids are awful, I thought I was going to die.
@Thecoolbonnie
20 күн бұрын
I have tried tecnu (the spray & the scrub)..didnt work ..dawn didn't work....I get it BAD several times a year and have had it 100's of times. This last time it was all over my feet, ankles and legs...my roommate did the weirdest thing..., it may not be recommended, but mine was gone in less than 24 hours. He rubbed it with a facecloth soaked in rubbing alcohol (didn't sting AT ALL, felt refreshing even though I'm sure that makes no sense) but then he took handtowels soaked in rubbing alcohol (wrung out obviously) and wrapped my feet/legs with them. I SWEAR it was a miracle...the next morning it had ALREADY HALFWAY cleared up!!! Itch was COMPLETELY GONE... try it? Everyone has towels and alcohol at home, nothing to buy
@OwenBray-br7xz
Ай бұрын
The best way to get rid of poison ivy even if don’t have it take a wash cloth and some warm soapy water and scrub in areas that you could have been exposed ( ankles arms hands and legs) one way that I practice is by putting axel Grease on mg hand or arm and scrubbing if away
@glebasictapdancemovesnmarv2180
2 ай бұрын
Iv gone 4 weeks with the poison ivy itch still living with it tried many creams and prednisone pills still hoping it will end soon.
@vincent7160
2 ай бұрын
Me too I'm about to lose my mind! I can't get rid of it!!!
@lauramatz3063
4 ай бұрын
i use Oreganol Oil (essential Oil) directly on my rash, yup it burns but stop itch can't handle itch ,,,rather have bit of pain for 10 minutes then itch & pain gone for 8 hours check out
@ump5754
Ай бұрын
One question / disagreement I have with the poison oil not being in the blisters is if the oil is rubbed into the skin to cause the blisters, what keeps the oil from still being within the blister? I believe it would be hard to say that there's no oil residue left in the skin when you pop a blister. Also anti itch cream has helped keep my blisters dry
@PrednisonePharmacist
Ай бұрын
Good question! I’m not sure.
@Thecoolbonnie
20 күн бұрын
Because the oil sits on top of your skin, it's sticky. The bubbles are your body's reaction to the poison ivy. There's just pus inside (made by your own body, not by the plant, same as a blister or burn
@pinnacleproductions6275
3 ай бұрын
Once you get it, all you can really do is take prednisone. Over the last few years I became really sensitive to poison ivy, never really got it bad before that. It’s torture getting it, I hate prednisone, it doesn’t agree with me at all, but I’ll be going to a clinic tomorrow to get some.
@vincent7160
2 ай бұрын
I guess I'll have to as well! I can't get rid of it, and it's driving me crazy!!
@1969TxCowboy1
4 ай бұрын
Did the study you mention have a control group that did not receive any prednisone? How much benefit was the prednisone over the longer term vs without prednisone over the same period? How much of the improvement was contributed to the prednisone vs. the condition just resolving on it's own? If there was a difference was it statistically significant? Thanks. I'm a Pharm D too!
@kimberlydavis1931
5 ай бұрын
Zanfel works really really well
@DDD11239
3 ай бұрын
Not compared to Prednisone, which dries up the rash within a day.
@DDD11239
3 ай бұрын
Also, Prednisone's cheaper.
@jacquelinenelson-norris5809
5 ай бұрын
Dawn soap, scrub brush, vigorously scrub. Then wash cloth to wash with a second time. And, no scrubbing in circles will not spread the oil if you soap and scrub. Just like machinery grease the scrubbing action will remove the oil. But, if you don’t get all the oil off, elbow, behind the forearms and behind the ears get steroid cream and rx steroid medication otherwise you will suffer. AND, poison ivy is prevalent now than it was 25 years ago. Duck 😅
@JoseColomer-e9u
4 ай бұрын
What can I moisturize with?
@PrednisonePharmacist
4 ай бұрын
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@MrJessDancing
2 ай бұрын
Tried and True RX. I learned this from an old nursing manual. NEVER USE AROUND ANY ORIFICE, ie., mouth,ears,genitals, eyes, or open wounds. 1)Run hot water as hot as you can stand (don't burn yourself obviously) over the affected area for one minute. It will hurt like hell for that minute. 2)Now enjoy a good night's sleep or whatever you are doing because you will not itch for eight hours. You're welcome. Old timer here.
@mrsmacca126
Ай бұрын
This doctor in video says NOT to.
@MrJessDancing
Ай бұрын
This Dr. has never had poison ivy. I'm convinced she means well. Some things she says make sense. My suggestion is for people who really need to stop the itching NOW for those affected tissues that are not near any orifices. One theory on why the hot water for a minute works so well is that it drives histamines from the lesion stopping the discomfort and restoring peace of mind. AGAIN NOT TO BE USED NEAR ANY ORIFICE. Good luck.
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