Familiar with it. All kidding aside, it's no joke.It's something to pay attention to. Lyme disease (cause by ticks) is a real issue up this way. Have a friend who likely contracted it walking her dog in the woods regularly. Took quite a while for the doctors to figure it out, which unfortunately leads to cumulative issues.
Lol that's for amateurs, I got that beat.Poison Oak, but you know what this looks like.
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Lol...I hiked a mile then rode the bike a couple hrs and back to the campground where I didn't shower til the next morning...baginga!If possible, washing the area with soap and water as soon as possible (probably within 30 minutes) can remove the poison ivy's urushiol oil that causes the allergic reaction.
If soap is not available, even very hot water or alcohol (we all carry that, right?) can remove some of it.
I did forget to mention I had forgotten the ashes in the bike, so there may be something to that. I did go back a couple days later with Will and we rode to the upper parking lot, I had the ashes then.Hey Joe,
Is there a chance Mom was getting even in any way....? . I'm sure there was something from your past.......
Bad Todd . Bad........ No cookie for you.
Don't like chemicals, for me or for him.
Had enough of those way back when we did chemistry experiments.
Never heard that before, however, now committed to memory.. you only make this mistake once lolOld boy scout chant...
Leaves of three...leave it be.
Berries white... frightening site. Or something like that.....
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Yes! hot water feels great and relieves the itching for a couple hours. As hot as you can stand it. Poison ivy sucks!!!One other thing I learned that seems to work for me, is to run hot water over the itching area, as hot as you can stand. That seems to give me temporary relief from the itching, if I do that every hour or so. But that might not work so well if you have blistering, its been decades since I got it that bad, my more recent cases with Sumac have been milder.