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Poison Plant Guide

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Poison Plant Guide

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One of the many hazards in our search for beer cans is coming into contact with poison plants. Learning to identify Poison Ivy, Oak and Sumac, you can decrease your chance of getting infected. If you do come in contact with these plants, by taking action quickly, you can decrease the severity of the rash.
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They make a poison ivy block...some sort of cream. It's a big problem at low elevations on the West Coast.... always make sure to wash up good when you get back from digging and get your dirty clothes in the laudry right away.
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If you pop those little blisters it seems to make the rash spread. I found one way to prevent that and to make the blisters go away. I take a scotchbright pad and some bleach into the shower, scrub the blisters so they pop with the pad doused in bleach. Warn everyone in the house what you are doing because a scream or two may escape :smt022 because it hurts like hell , but it definitely cuts down the rash time. Every time I've done it the rash is pretty much gone within 2 days, compared to a week plus it sometimes takes.
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Poison ivy skin rash comes from the plant's oils, not what's in the blisters (white blood cells). Wash with soap and water as quickly as possible, and remove clothing and wash, to prevent spread. In the Midwest, jewelweed is a good woodland remedy for poison ivy.
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Poison sumac as 7 to 10 leaves but is not very common.


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I cannot abide by urushiol-producing plants. I loathe them, and they mock me. My typical rash usually lasts a month, sometimes longer depending on the extent of the exposure. I've tried a few different OTC remedies with little luck. Once I have it, it's here to stay.

Until now.

I went out two weekends ago to a small dump that a guy at work told me about. Most all of the foliage was still down for the winter and I wasn't even thinking about poison ivy. I must have gotten into some roots while digging because the next day, the red dots were appearing. By evening, that had turned into a 6" swath down my right hand and wrist that made me look like a burn victim. It began to ooze incessantly, was a cross between itchy and painful, and about all I could do was keep it clean and cover it up with the ankle cut from an old sock. It was disgusting enough to scare women and small children. I had a music engagement last weekend and felt sort of self-conscious wearing a sock over my wrist while trying to play, and of course it would get nasty and need to be rinsed every hour. But then a guy I was playing with said three magic words: tea tree oil.

The next morning, promptly when Walgreen's opened, I went and bought a bottle. I found one with a dropper and one with a pump-spray head. Both were small and both were north of ten bucks, but I had to try it. Everything else had proven useless. Bingo. I sprayed the affected area with tea tree oil, and the oozing stopped within an hour. The whole area started to look sort of scabby and dry by that evening, but the rash was visibly diminishing by the next morning. I have continued to use one application a day for the last 5 days, and aside from some residual scabbiness it's damn close to healed. I found some dots developing on my left arm, also - sprayed the greater concentration of them one time and they were gone the next morning.

This stuff is a miracle in a bottle, and worth its weight in gold. I will never take a dumping trip again without having some of this along. If I'd have known about it before the main rash got as big and gross as it did, the results I've seen indicate I could have headed it off entirely. Regardless, this is still the shortest-lived case of poison ivy I've ever had.

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Dave, please post a photo of said bottle/spray.
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It was two places in the store, this spray was with topicals/antiseptics and a dropper bottle was with herbal supplements. Either would work, this just seemed convenient. Remarkable stuff.
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