FYI, the people on the Internet who say hot water, almost hot enough to burn, will make the itching go away for a few hours. Feels like getting tazed while you’re doing it, and may actually not be a smart thing to do, but it can keep you from scratching it, temporarily.
Supposedly it is an allergic reaction, so maybe some people are more sensitive than others. Also supposedly subsequent bouts will hit faster. That’s part of the problem, unless you know how to recognize the plant, you may not know you got into it for a day or so. Then unlike a bug bite, it gets worse and worse and worse. Like they say, leaves of three, let it be. If you look at the photos on the web, it’s pretty easy to recognize. The stuff I encountered is just like they say, plants on the ground and vines growing up the north side of a tree. Poison ivy / brush killer from the store killed it, but supposedly even dead it has the urushiol, plus it will grow back, and if you burn it the smoke is dangerous. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 7:41 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] This is what I had for lunch and you didn't I used to get poison ivy every year when I was a kid in Illinois. One year when I was around 9 or 10, my brother and I must have found a patch that gave us a miserable case of it for at least a couple of weeks. I never got it again while I lived in Illinois, or when we moved to Minnesota when I was a teenager. Moved to California after college, and there is no poison ivy out here, but poison oak. It's essentially the same stuff. A similar leaf, but a different plant configuration. The same Urushiol oil. I'd lived in CA for about 8 years, and never got the stuff. I got into a motorcycle accident and the bike went plowing through a giant patch of PO (short name for poison oak). I tore off my leather jacket and headed down the hill after the bike. Meanwhile, my girlfriend at the time (now my wife, bless her heart) tells me "Don't go through there it's all PO!" I ignore her, and shout back "I don't get that stuff." Well, I had ruptured my spleen. Many hours later, I went under the knife to get that taken care of. The next morning, I had several little round patches of PO wherever they had stuck a monitor patch of any kind. They gave me a tube of cortisone to take care of it. It did not get "bad", but I still got it. I've had occasional bouts with it over the years. As long as I'm reasonably careful, and wash it off within an hour or two, it almost never amounts to anything. I don't get a giant rash or anything; just a little redness that goes away in a day or so & no "big itch". That said, for people who are sensitive, it can be really nasty. -- bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 5:17 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I’m 68 and I encountered poison ivy for the first time in my life this year. Jeez Louise, that’s nasty stuff. It took 3 weeks to mostly clear up. Be careful. Just touching the outside of the Tyvek or the gloves and you’re still screwed. From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 5:56 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] This is what I had for lunch and you didn't I put on white Tyvek and HD nitrile gloves to clear a patch of poison oak behind the water tanks the other day. It was only about 80 or 85, but I was dying out there. When I pulled the gloves off, it seemed like there was a pint of water in each one. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 8/6/2019 3:26 PM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: The most real work I ever do is to: Steam Clean Sandblast Survey A couple of days ago I spent an hour sandblasting. It was 109 outside. I had on white tyvek but I thought it was gonna kill me. From: Jaime Solorza Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 4:07 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] This is what I had for lunch and you didn't Yep. Tower work in am, nice lunch, relay testing in pm, and now getting close to Tecate time. On Tue, Aug 6, 2019, 2:01 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I could afford to eat maybe the taco and the rice. Luckily they both look quite yummy. But since his selfies usually show him working or hiking, maybe it’s not just metabolism. If I worked that hard, I could probably get away with eating like that. From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 2:49 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] This is what I had for lunch and you didn't I wish I had your metabolism! 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