the thicker the skin, the longer the same exposure takes to show up. I've had it near my eyes and it swelled one of them shut for a day, I didn't have much there so it went away quickly, then it started popping up other places where the skin is thicker.
Wash everything, even tools
My mom always had us wash with what she called "brown soap" which was a bar of laundry detergent called "Fels Naptha".
Mom always caught poison ivy real bad - she claimed she could get it from the wind, maybe it was from handling our dirty laundry, I'm sure three boys running around in the woods brought home a lot.
My brothers and I would catch it, not as bad as mom, but enough to be annoying. After boot camp in Fort Lost in the Woods, Misery and there was this stuff all over the place that made good camouflage (poison oak, of course the DI's didn't warn us) I got a real good case of it. Since then, however after my tour I could pull the poison ivy off the trees with my bare hands and wouldn't have any problems.
Jim Frame, post: 328134, member: 10 wrote: I've worked with a number of guys who made that claim and backed it up by regularly wading through it, chainsawing through it, and hacking through it with a machete. But to a man, once they got cut with a cut stub, they got a significant rash in the area of the cut. And one of them, who used to belittle his employees who were sensitive to the stuff, abruptly lost his immunity one day. No one ever figured out why, but he walked through some that day and showed up at work the next day with a nice, itchy rash from head to toe.
karma
kampnguy, post: 327942, member: 6123 wrote: http://diply.com/country-living/poison-ivy-oak-sumac-rash-extreme-deer-habitat/150561
As annoying as this fella in the video is, personality wise, I have to admit that I did just now follow his advice. Another solo perk --> poison ivy shower at 2:00 pm.
I have found that taking a cold shower with an ordinary bar of soap asap of being exposed usually keeps me from getting it.
Most of the time, I get it from a secondary source. Say shoe laces or the blade of a tool.
I have had it since I was 5 years old....If I see that I've been in it I try to wash off in a creek or whatever water is around...my problem is going to the bathroom in the woods without realizing I have the oil on my hands and then transfer it to junior....not a good thing...
rberry5886, post: 328395, member: 232 wrote: I have had it since I was 5 years old....If I see that I've been in it I try to wash off in a creek or whatever water is around...my problem is going to the bathroom in the woods without realizing I have the oil on my hands and then transfer it to junior....not a good thing...
We had an old crotchety PC years ago, Jim Dycus, God rest his soul. Although in later years we became good friends, I did my damnedest to mess that old coot back in the day. For instance, if we didn't want to go out and work at some hell-hole we were at the day before; while Jim was upstairs talking survey with the boss, we would empty the graphite from his big iron K&E pencil pointer into the distributor cap of the pickup. It once ran so bad and backfired it blew off the air cleaner completely.
I was all the time swapping the HB lead in his lead holder with 6H. It's like trying to draw in a field book with a 16d nail.
When we found out he was allergic to poison ivy, we went for the throat. The chariot's steering wheel was rubbed down really well with the shiniest leaves we could find when he wasn't looking. Jim got it all over his face and his junk! He was miserable for weeks.
Thirty-five years later Jim and I were hanging out together at the OSLS convention. Earlier in the day I had confided in him the story of the poison ivy. He seemed to take it well and just chuckled. At break I was grabbing a drink of water from the bubbler in the hallway and Jim (at the age of 85) hauled off and put his boot up my ass (as hard as he could) as I was bending over drinking. As I looked up startled he smiled and said, "We're even..."
I miss him.
I had emailed the researcher at the University of Mississippi last year about the product/cure/protection/immunization he is developing in this patent:
http://www.google.com/patents/US8486998
The last I had heard is that it was going to clinical trials. A quick google does not turn up anything new.
James
Things certainly take time.
Patent publication date Jul 16, 2013
Filing date Apr 3, 2009
Invention Priority date Apr 3, 2008
and who knows if and when it will get through the FDA.
If I was in Mississippi, I would be knocking on their door trying to get in the clinical trials.
In the 90's I was taking a shot once a month, then suddenly it was no longer available. It was not a cure but it certainly helped.
I called the manufacturer and was told the FDA would not let them make it anymore. I called the FDA and they said the manufacturer could keep making it if they could provide a "standardized product". Called the manufacturer again and was told that there was no way to make a "standardized product" from a natural source like poison ivy and the FDA knew that.
James
