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BarnBuster

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Yikes, that doesn’t look like fun. Some people react very poorly to poison oak and poison ivy like those pics, but usually it’s just an itchy red rash that occasionally weeps if you scratch too much. A lucky few have no reaction at all. Also, if you wash the oils off your skin within an hour or so, one can usually avoid any rash at all
I never had a reaction to urushiol at all until I was about 45, then it was nasty but I ended up getting a shot at the ER and it fixed me right up. Now I always shower immediately if I'm somewhere exposure is possible.
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Guess it depends on the severity of the reaction. It wouldn’t weep too much when I was a kid, but it spread like wildfire if you scratched it.

Poison oak on your dick when you’re 6 years old isn’t something I wish on anyone.

This whole conversation makes me want to take an oatmeal bath
When my son was 4 he rolled in some poison oak to impress some girls.

His next four weeks were hell. I washed him twice-daily with OxiClean and he HATED it.

My reaction is severe enough that it wept even when I resisted scratching that Itch.
 

DustyDuke

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Once upon a time, my ex-wife and I bought 3.5 acres in the Foothills. There was much poison oak. Then Ex obtained four Barbados sheep. They wiped out all the poison oak and thistle. The foxtails they ignored.
Some winner decided to introduce poison Ivy here I have a patch at the back of my property that I have burnt, sprayed said nasty things too but still comes back
 

WeedFreak78

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On the west coast, we have poison oak, sorta the same. I have no sympathy for that stuff. It grows all over the hills where I grew up, I had the rash more than my fair share as a child. Kill it...kill it with fire
Growing up a friend and his father were both hospitalized because they ripped up all the poison ivy they found and threw it on their burn pile. The father had to have a breathing tube put in when the ambulance arrived because his throat closed up. I'm all for scorched earth policy, just be careful.
 

WeedFreak78

Well-Known Member
The best surface treatment for poison oak that I've found is half-strength chlorine bleach. (Apply with a swab. Leave it on as long as you can stand. Rinse with cool water.) It takes that awful compelling itchiness away and replaces it with the ordinary (and in my opinion much more bearable) ouch of bleach on exposed nerve endings. I reapplied whenever the Itch came back. I'm pretty sensitive to it, and I healed much faster using the bleach than the " control lesion".

~edit~ won't work for pushki. Different suite of toxins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_maximum
I've used acetone a couple times when I got poison ivy. Instantly dries it out and it clears up in a day or two. Probably not the healthiest option, but when you're ready to tear skin off, anything goes.
 

WeedFreak78

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When I was in my early 20s I met this chick at a bar who was all over me the whole night. We ended up in the woods behind the bar after it closed, bare ass naked and rolling around in the leaves, just a one night stand. Neither of us realized it was a big patch of poison ivy. Yeah, so we both had it all over our assess and crotch bad and other less severe patches on our arms. We both thought we caught something from the other person. Fast forward about 7 years and one of my friends brought her to the beach for the 4th. It took us about an hour before we realized who we were and had a good laugh about it. She was a born again at that point, :roll:, so no matter how hard I tried she wasn't interested in recreating that night. I almost convinced her when I reminded her how good my head game is, but then she went off about temptation and I'm trying to make her stray, blah, blah, blah. Yes, yes I was:fire:
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
I've used acetone a couple times when I got poison ivy. Instantly dries it out and it clears up in a day or two. Probably not the healthiest option, but when you're ready to tear skin off, anything goes.
I've tried some crazy shit but I didn't try acetone. It makes sense to me - acetone should be a great solvent not only for the greasy toxin but its active metabolite.
 

Dr.Amber Trichome

Well-Known Member
When I was in my early 20s I met this chick at a bar who was all over me the whole night. We ended up in the woods behind the bar after it closed, bare ass naked and rolling around in the leaves, just a one night stand. Neither of us realized it was a big patch of poison ivy. Yeah, so we both had it all over our assess and crotch bad and other less severe patches on our arms. We both thought we caught something from the other person. Fast forward about 7 years and one of my friends brought her to the beach for the 4th. It took us about an hour before we realized who we were and had a good laugh about it. She was a born again at that point, :roll:, so no matter how hard I tried she wasn't interested in recreating that night. I almost convinced her when I reminded her how good my head game is, but then she went off about temptation and I'm trying to make her stray, blah, blah, blah. Yes, yes I was:fire:
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curious2garden

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Absolutely gorgeous bird.
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Thank you and they are CITES 1, Anodorynchus. I have a breeding pair. Since they hollow out trees to nest in we go through a lot of perches. Their nest box is metal. You don't want them out without direct supervision. They got out once and ate an entire lathe and plaster wall, snipped the chicken wire and were working on stucco when I walked back in, sigh.
 
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