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|  I am helping a neighbor weed her flower beds and fortunately she grew up with poison ivy and knows 100% what it is..(I only know that it has three leaves.)
So she gives me gloves to which I only use if I am working around a rose bush or something prickly. I am using a hand trowel, but for the weeds that come up easily, I just pull them up and I reached into this plant and pulled up something and I soon thought, Oh No. I then said to my neighbor, "Is this what I think it is?" She says yes it is, so I throw the vine away and she helped me wash my hands so I didn't get any plant oil on anything.
I am home now taking a lunch break and even though I washed my hands, I went straight to the fast orange, washed my hands again and then applied hand sanitizer.
Here I was just getting over a bout of this itchy rash and I go and bare handed pull up a vine, how dumb is that? Well, at least we'll see if the procedure I used will prevent it from forming...
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1.  Hatley (48768)
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2 years ago
| |  oh my goodness Carmelanirel you did it again. wow. well you get
to see if the f ast orange will work like it did before. I can'
walk through the stuff, handle and neve get the stuff yet the
rest of my familywould break out all over.now I guess I have got
repaid for not ever getting poison ivy rashes. I have an allergic
reaction to something rash on my left let only and I do not have
the foggiest idea of what it was that caused it.I went through seven days of steroid pills that almost killed me but got rid of half the rash. go figure.Its a lot better but half of it is still there not itchy but really unsightly.
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| carmelanirel (12209)
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2 years ago
| | Wow, I guess I am fortunate, I've heard where people have to take steroids because the poison ivy was so bad..
Yeah, I can't believe I did it again..Though the first time was not expected, I didn't know it was growing there and it was early enough in the season that everything looked like just plain weeds..But today I knew it was up, because my neighbor showed me in another part of her property where it is growing. And yet I reached in, not thinking to look and see before pulling...I felt so dumb, especially after she pointed it out to me. Then after lunch break and we went back to work, in yet another part of her flower bed that is on the border of the woods, she find a batch of it and she put on what she calls her "poison ivy gloves" and pulled them out, showing my their long vines before she'd throw them away..Needless to say, I didn't go near her.. | | | |
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| 2. LauraElrod (396)
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2 years ago
| |  the oil from the ivy stays on clothes for up to one year , in order not to get a rash you must with in 5 mins wash it off your skin. they way to get rid of poison ivy is add salt and a tablespoon of dish washing liquid in a spray bottle and spay the leaves. i hate the stuff but i never get it but my hubby does. good luck and be careful.
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| carmelanirel (12209)
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2 years ago
| | Really? any kind of dish soap? And how much salt do you add? I was going to spray where I think I have some, but would rather not use chemicals..I did wash up right away, but from years past, we have waited for about half and hour or more until we can get home..Then we rub dawn for dishes on our legs and rinse with the hose before going into the house and we never got it..
I only got poison ivy last year because I forgot to wash and this year because I didn't know that is what I was pulling up. I couldn't wash my clothes right away, but I am sure the soap will take care of it, it always has in the past.. | | | |
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4.  spacedementia (155)
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2 years ago
| |  Try Cortizone cream. It usually works.
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