What is in your backyard?

[oldfogey8]

She should check you head(both heads) to toe…

Sorry. I hope your SIL is OK. Typed the reply too early…

 

[oldfogey8]

My poor little 3yr old granddaughters face is swollen up from poison ivy she got into at school on a fking fence. Looks terrible but she seems fine. No crying or anything just a lot of itching. They are using Calamine and it seems to be helping.

My kids pediatrician used to prescribe a steroid if the PI got on my kids face. The drawback is it is bad to get too much sun if they took the steroids but it cleared the rash in about 48 hours.

 

[WeedHopper]

Hell when we were kids Calamine was in most parents cabinet for just that reason. Kids got into that shit all the time that lived in the Country. Didn't get steroid shots nor did we go to a doctor for a rash.

 

[oldfogey8]

**** when we were kids Calamine was in most parents cabinet for just that reason. Kids got into that shit all the time that lived in the Country. Didn't get steroid shots nor did we go to a doctor for a rash.

Me neither. My grandmother kept Felsnaptha soap and calamine lotion. The Felsnaptha soap removes ALL oils from the skin so I would be a rash covered, flaky skinned, pink monster quite a bit of the summer. Fun fact-Felsnaptha soap has a warning on it to avoid skin contact now. lol…

 

[WeedHopper]

The good thing about those rashes is they are not transmitted from person to person. You have to come in contact with oil from the plant.

 

[oldfogey8]

The good thing about those rashes is they are not transmitted from person to person. You have to come in contact with oil from the plant.

I know that now but when I was young I thought(probably because my grandmother told me so) the fluid leaking from the blisters would spread the rash. My grandmother was a salt of the earth master class grower of any kind of vegetable you could imagine. She planted a watermelon patch and asparagus for me over a plot of land that had a chicken coop on it when her farm was a working farm. Some of the most delicious watermelon and (three years later) asparagus I ever had.

 

[WeedHopper]

Yeah you can look it up but no the fluid from the blisters does not spread the rash from poison Ivy or Oak. Normally what happens is the oil from the plant is on your clothes and other ppl touching you gets into that oil. My Mom always made sure she washed our clothes real good when we got into those plants. I don't have a reaction to Ivy or Oak for some reason. My Sister did but not me. Have no idea why. I have never even had a fever blister in my life. Only rash I've ever had is jock itch and that's because I'm a hairy mother fker.
Look like a Chewbacca in tightie whities.

 

[oldfogey8]

Yeah you can look it up but no the fluid from the blisters does not spread the rash from poison Ivy or Oak. Normally what happens is the oil from the plant is on your clothes and other ppl touching you gets into that oil. My Mom always made sure she washed our clothes real good when we got into those plants. I don't have a reaction to Ivy or Oak for some reason. My Sister did but not me. Have no idea why. I have never even had a fever blister in my life. Only rash I've ever had is jock itch and that's because I'm a hairy mother fker.
Look like a Chewbacca in tightie whities.

Yup. Urushiol from the plants cause the allergic reaction. One of the kids in our neighborhood would literally roll around in PI and spread it to the other kids. He never got a single blister. He was a dummy…

 

[WeedHopper]

What an ass.hole. Sounds like something I would have done.

 

[RosterMan]

That’s funny, I was thinking the same thing. I have been digging out pi since we lived here and none of mine is so beautiful like yours

There were 20 ft underground roots 1 " thick

 

[RosterMan]

My poor little 3yr old granddaughters face is swollen up from poison ivy she got into at school on a fking fence. Looks terrible but she seems fine. No crying or anything just a lot of itching. They are using Calamine and it seems to be helping.

If it gets to bad they have a shot that will help

 

[RosterMan]

What an ass.hole. Sounds like something I would have done.

Naaaa you would have rub it in their cups and straps LOL
The Day before the Big Game

 

[RosterMan]

**** when we were kids Calamine was in most parents cabinet for just that reason. Kids got into that shit all the time that lived in the Country. Didn't get steroid shots nor did we go to a doctor for a rash.

Yes Im the same way but people like my wife can go into anaphylactic shock, she never did until a few yrs ago

 

[RosterMan]

Just learned a new secret from the laborers
Before and after pulling poison ivy , wash your arms was gasoline
Just a bit on a rag cuts the oil

 

[oldfogey8]

Just learned a new secret from the laborers
Before and after pulling poison ivy , wash your arms was gasoline
Just a bit on a rag cuts the oil

Laundry detergent works well too. Gas is too expensive to rub all over my body…

“I did that”

-author in hiding

 

[user 60606]

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leaves of three, let it be

 

[RosterMan]

leaves of three, let it be

I get sumac very badly ivy not so much

 

[user 60606]

Virginia creeper gives me a similar type rash.

yep .. Round Up is a necessary evil .. but even burning the dead for a year or more vines can cause problems

 

[RosterMan]

yep .. Round Up is a necessary evil .. but even burning the dead for a year or more vines can cause problems

Can Kill ya

 

[Hippie420]

Virginia creeper gives me a similar type rash. I eradicated most of the poison ivy in the woods behind my house when the kids were young(a dumb thing to do in hindsight) but it is coming back. My issue this year is Virginia creeper. I pulled a bunch of it and hit the rash before I remembered reading that it will do the same thing as PI.

Neighbors down the road when I was a kid pulled a bunch off of a fence. George had a fire going and tossed the vines on it. His youngest son helped him. He got some of the smoke in his lungs and wound up in the ER barely clinging to life. The stuff blistered his lungs and the doc claimed he almost drown in the fluids.

On a serious note it caused a lot of late in life problems but she is doing OK now.

Yoop's doc said that's what caused the cancer he wound up dying from.

The good thing about those rashes is they are not transmitted from person to person. You have to come in contact with oil from the plant.

That's what they claim. The one and only time I've ever had it was after the Old Hen got it on her right arm, and she sleeps on my left. Guess what arm I got it on?