That works good, also banana peels. You rub the peeled banana peel, (banana side toward the skin) over the affected area.

 

Banana peel is amazing stuff, never heard of it for that before, but it works wonders on Athletes foot and cold sores. I was told eating lots of cashews works to heal poison oak and is preventive against getting it?? good snack if nothing else I guess

 

I used to scub myself down with ajax or something like it when I was in landscaping.

 

i never used ajax, but i do wash any suspected areas down with warm soapy water, as soon as i get home from afield, and that has worked tremendously well.

 

Take baking soda and milk ix in a bowel until it makes a paste apply to infected area immediate relief soothes and stops the burning use until ivy is gone usually three days

 

my aunt used to paint my feet with white shoe poilish it would dry on it and the itch would go away .sounds bad now but work real good back then

 

Meat tenderizer take some and water make a past and rub it on .It works great in a day or so it's all gone.I bought a book of home remedies it was in there ,a guy at work had gotten it bad ,he used it and the next day it was gone .

 

Take a hot shower. Have the water as hot as you can stand. Run it on the sores. This causes the histamines in your skin to release and will relieve the ich for a time. Repeat as necessary. The key is the water has to be as hot as possible.

They also make this stuff called Zanfel. Its a creme that has an abrasive in it and when you put it on it is absolutely heavenly. The itch goes away and you may not even need another application to be cured in a few days. The downside? This stuff is RIDICULOUSLY expensive! Upwards of forty dollars for a one ounce tube.

 

The hot water trick i've used. Work great instantly if you have nothing at hand. I use it for more than just that. FOr any kind of iche from bug bits, to ichy eyes. works great, but then again i like hot showers so I can stand hot water.

 

Bleach

I used to get it every summer from our lake cabin in my teens. The best meathod that i found was to either itch it until it bled or to take my bone saw for gutting deer (had an 8" serated blade) set it on edge and scratch all the bumps away and get a tub of as hot I you could stand water and bout a half a gallon of bleach. Usually was dried up within 2 days and now I don't seem to get it anymore not sure why maybe I'm just a little brighter and stay away.

 

My brother takes a wire brush and scrubs the rash until it is raw.Then he puts laqauer thinner on it.He swears it works.(I think he was dropped on his head when he was young,maybe several times).I like to think I'm smarter than him.:shade:

 

similar here. my grandmother told me to take a wash cloth and dip it into warm water with alot of salt disolved into it. Apply to area after you pop all the blisters and used a papertowel to soak away most of the weeping, redo the wash cloth once an hour or so.

I now use some scrubbing stuff made for ivy, oak, sumac and scrub it really good and then apply salt directly do the skin.

I get a shot for it, and still get it. Just thinking about poison ivy will make me break out

 

The lacquer thinner actually works....any kind of solvent like that will work. It dries it up really quick. I work with solvent based inks and I can get my hands on just about any thing I want. The thing that works the best for me is MEK (Methel Ethel Keytone) that stuff works wonders.

 

I had it really bad last year, where I'd have gladly removed limbs with a hacksaw to clear the itch. I tried the extreme pain meds that I had and the neighbors could come up with not much success, until I filled the tub with HOT water and jumped in at 3am. After the initial scream, the itch was gone. The hot water trick works to kill the itch. This post so far is the best list in one place I've ever seen.

 

Shower in dawn dish washing liquid right after exposure. It acts as a degreaser, therefore washing away the oils of the poision

 

I use rubbing alcohol on a cloth to break up the oil right after exposure. Ivy Cleanse is just alcohol on a moist pre packaged towelette...quite handy when needed.

 

Bath with a little bleach water. Bleach drys it up.

 

hot tub or spa with high chlorine in it is prolly the best way i could think of

 

Cheap hair spray,takes away the itch and drys it up. Costs about a $1 and thats for the really cheap stuff. The more alcohol content the better.

 

What has always worked for me, is I wet the area first with water and sprinkle heavily with salt. Then I scrub it into the skin for as long as I can take it, breaking the blisters. Next, add a little more salt until no more will stick. Then let it completely dry, and dust the salt off. It may take a couple of applications if new blister appear, but the ones you break will begin healing and soon be healed.

 

We always had a bar of Fels-Naptha soap around for treating poison ivy. Just lather it up and apply to the itchy area and let it dry. Takes away the itch and dries up the rash very quickly.

 

I am highly allergic to poison ivy. Now when I have been out in the woods or think I may have been near it, I take a bath in water dilluted with bleach. This has seemed to work. I haven't had a severe case in several years...

 

yea fells nartha soap works great been using that for a long time

 

Two cures work the best for me:
1. Brake Cleaner
Probably not the healthiest of cures but it works
2. Swimming in the ocean

I'll have to try some of the recommendations here. Thanks

 

Do you ever wonder who comes up with some of these? I mean seriously....rubbing a banana peel on yourself? Oatmeal paste...? Somewhere in time there was this guy sitting there thinking...man this poison ivy sure does itch.. Then he gets this bright idea to take the oatmeal out of his bowl and slap it on his leg. Then he sits there looking at it....waiting. (crickets are heard chirping in the background)
Or perhaps there's this old woman (the one the old wives tales are about) who goes around experimenting on people. She probably travels around with a large trunk full of odds and ends to try out. The epitome of the DIY'r.

In the end, if it works..who cares.

 

I got one for you.I used to get it so bad my eyes would swell shut.So a guy told me to eat a leaf.So I ate and no more poison ivy.I think it made me itch in my guts lol

 

Remove the oil by washing with dawn. Rub 1% hydrocortisone into the rash until it will not disappear. Done.

 

I had it bad, I may have had sumac but same cure......my mom used hot tea soaked towels on my sores.....But I like scalding my skin and using Sarna lotion.....or you can take a few benadryl capules and empty powder in calamine lotion bottle and use that.

Dry it out is the fastes way!!!

 

i use bleach on a towel

it feels like rubbing alcohol on acut