How to Treat Poison Ivy
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- “Leaves of three, leave them be” 🍃 for poison oak and poison ivy. Poison sumac has more leaves. The same treatment still applies for all of these plants.
If you’re concerned at all (even if it’s a mild rash), derms are here for you 🙏🏼
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If you've scrubbed the area thoroughly with a lot of friction and a good soap like Dawn, and are positive the oils are fully removed, scratching the rash will NOT cause it to spread, and it is NOT contagious to others. You generally don't want to be scratching it anyway, as popped blisters can be pretty painful. Much easier said than done, but try not to if you can at all help it.
The oil being left on your skin for an extended amount of time is what causes the rash to develop. Once the rash is there and it's been cleaned, it cannot get anywhere else as you've removed the oil already.
Poison Ivy rash doesn't cause histamine release, so antihistamines like Benadryl will not have any effect on it. It may help you sleep better due to the sedative effect, but that's really it.
The most important thing you can do if you've come into skin contact with Poison Ivy is go thoroughly wash the area as soon as possible, with Dawn and lots of vigorous scrubbing. The friction is what really gets rid of the oil. If you're quick enough at washing the oil off, the rash will never develop.
Itching may not cause it to spread if you have washed all the oil off but could still cause a skin infection called cellulitis
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😅 that kid at the end, I was looking just like that and looked just like him. My skin felt like armadillo skin.
I'm lucky I don't get reactions to poison ivy
Scratching does make it spread. The blisters do not contain urishol oil. The oil stays on surfaces for up to 5 years.
It will only spread if you haven't cleaned off the oil
Benadryl cream extra strength is the best . Trust me
And of course the doctor says nothing about using hot water[really hot-just shy of scalding-whatever the most you can tolerate before actually burning yourself]on the affected areas. Always just the symptoms. Never want to get to the actual underlying cause.
What can I do if my eyes swollen and puffy
1. wash with a rag amd soap. Friction wash
I’m experiencing a really really bad case of P Ivy (started as an arborist) and the only things that have helped me have been peppermint oil and scolding hot showers. Both of these are probably irritable to most people but to me it’s worth not feeling itchy my entire day
for me it was REALLY COLD showers that helped.
Use a degreaser soap. Dawn dish soap.
Don’t use an oil based soap.
Question I don’t have any rash but itchy after helping my dad do yardwork and he got poison ivy on his hands and feet but I didn’t but I still feel itchy. What do you recommend I put on it?
Scratching doesnt cause it to spread. UNLESS you still have the oil on ur skin.
Oh no the rash ir really bad 😢
Soap and water AND A WASHCLOTH rinse and repeat 3x.
How not scratch😢mine was severe and only got better with prednisone 🙌🏼
I read the oil stays on your skin so you need to wash with dawn soap and scrub it off because it breaks the oils down like grease
I use the medicine and the cream
Ooo I do have a bad rash❤
What about if it happens to a kid cuz I'm a 7 year old and my name is ivy
That girl is poisonnnn... never trust a big butt and a smile
If my face looks like the guy at the end… then I’m going to the hospital not a dermatologist…
I had it on my leg and now it’s all over my body
Don’t scratch.. you obviously haven’t had it, I wish I could be put in a coma til it’s gone!
100% agree with you. In the last year serving as a wildland fire fighter in California I’ve gotten poison oak several times. Every time more insufferable than the previous. I too wish I could just be put in an induced coma until the itchy blistery rash was gone
Me too I wish I could sleep away for 2 weeks 😅the scratch woke me up at night, tried everything, creams and blow drying it😅the only thing that worked for nine severe poisonivy dermatitis was prednisone 🙌🏼
@@miria81london Prednisone is the best! It’s the only thing that works for me too. Wish my Doctor would prescribe me an extra bottle to keep on hand though haha. Calamine lotion, hydrocortisone cream, and the cortisone steroid shot do nothing at all for me
I thought you said poor things to do 😂
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Nickname is ivy
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You can't spread it if you scratch unless the oil is still on you.
Imaa ot wash them im burning them
She just googled it
There's a difference right
Use cold water
Why
@@TheAboriginal1it helps it not itch
You missed the absolute MOST important one: When you wash your skin (immediately after exposure is best) you MUST use a wash cloth. If you smear black axle grease on your skin, soap and water won't remove it alone...just think of the toxic urushiol oil as invisible axle grease.
So you just took that from the other video and commented that right? 😂
Oh brake parts cleaner to spray my arm and legs after come in contact with poison rashes
Soap and cool water
What about if I got poison oak
It's the same oil
Sorry
🤣that’s okay
Wow are you married
Washing with soap and water releases the oils and actually makes it spread more
No