Stop Posion Ivy from Itching? (Please help.....)

I have not encountered this before, but I hope you get well fast and that torture ends.

It reminds me of The Sopranos where Paulie was affected by poison ivy.

BUMP too. ;)

You can try these:

• Soaking it in cool water
• Use an oatmeal based product: Aveeno
• Get Cortisone and Calamine
• Use wet compresses. Make a paste out of baking soda and water.

I have a bother who is highly allergic to all the poison vines. These are what helped him and me when I would get it.

I usually apply calamine lotion to poison ivy rashes.
Also, poison ivy rash only breaks out where the leaves contact the skin. Itching does not spread the rash.

Most drug stores will have something that can help; I have a small size bottle of Solarcaine (meant for sunburn, but works for most other skin irritants) on hand just in case.

Other than the lotions/ointments take an antihistamine and that will lessen your bodies response to the allergic reaction it causes. Also if its covering large parts of the body most doctors can give you a corticosteroid shots to help speed up recovery.

I say get some raw coconut oil, cocoa butter or Aloe Vera!

Also, I don't know if you have it but Bepanthen or Sudo Crem is brilliant (its in the baby isle)

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Just make sure not to scratch. Often poison ivy is causing allergic reactions so antihistamine might help.
Cooling and various lotions (in germany we got "Bepanthen") also help a lot if you washed away the plant's oils before.

you can't stop poison ivy <3

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I know that vinegar works against the itch of nettles and red ants bites.

Water, lotion(you can get medical lotion at any pharmacy, a specifically popular brand is the gray tin with the red label), natural lotions(aloe vera, and apparently plant oils), I guess some people have suggested anti-allergy medicine but I've never heard of poison ivy allergy personally, so no idea on that one.

There's lots of it around my area(lots of parks and whatnot around my area), so it's common around here. Just don't itch it, it makes it worse.

Cold water / ice will definitely help. From what I understood, almost whole of your body is itchy from the poison ivy, so taking a cold shower will definitely help. :)

Cold towels, calamine, and a baking soda paste helped me out when I got into some poison oak. Didnt completely get rid of the itching, but it certainly helped.

Hope you feel better soon though >< That itching is the worst

I'm not a doctor, but if you're developing hives in places not touched by poison ivy, you may want to take an anti-histamine to suppress the reaction.

You can try Ivy Block. It's a product over the counter. Most pharmacy should have it. It is suppose to be really good.

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I used to play in the woods a lot as a kid. Poison ivy is really annoying. I recommend oatmeal baths and lots of calamine lotion! Here's to a quick recovery!

Well. Poison ivy ointment not working, spreading of itches when it's not suppose too, more than 2 days.... Maybe it's not poison ivy. Have you consult a doctor, it might be something else ?

I remember having a run in with poison ivy when I was a (dumb) kid.
My parents treated it with an aloe vera concentrate we used mainly for sunburns. I can't remember how much it helped, only that it did.
Apparently the german wikihow agrees and lists aloe vera (with at least 90% "purity") as a treatment for the itching

Baking soda and vinegar. Look it up on google to be certain as to how much of each.

Run hot water over it, as hot as you can stand it. It will stimulate the nerves as if you scratched it. When the hot water first touches it, you will have an urge to scratch, just like if you start to scratch it you can't stop. Resist the urge to scratch it and keep running the hot water over it and after a few seconds it will start to feel good. Keep running hot water over it until it no longer itches. The effect will last several hours. The last time I had a bad case of poison ivy, it was on my right arm and face. I couldn't sleep I was so miserable, but once I found out about the hot water, I would do it right before bed and it lasted all night. I generally only had to do it 2-3 times per day.

Tecnu Extreme Medicated Poison Ivy Scrub I used it when I had it

I can see you have too much blood, maybe bloodletting works otherwise theres only one thing you can do, amputation works in most cases (6/10).

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This is controversial, but when I was growing up, I remember people using bleach. I just looked it up online and there are a lot of people that say they have used it and it works, but there are also a lot of people that say not to use it. I would suggest doing your own research and making your own decision if you want to try it because I have never tried it (I don't think I get a reaction from poison ivy). When I saw it, they just poured the straight bleach onto their arm and then washed it off after a little while, but I have read online of people saying to put it on something else and then just apply it to the affected area or dilute it with water first. I have also read of people saying to take a bath with around a cup of bleach added, but I think it would be better to just apply it to the affected area.

Also, it may burn, especially if you have open blisters. I have read of people that say they purposely scrub the affected area to open the blisters up and expose the poison ivy and then use bleach. They say it burns a lot that way, but the rash is gone the next day.

Again, this is controversial and I don't know if it works, I would recommend doing your own research and making your own decision (as with anything in life). Also, make sure to wash the bleach off after a minute or two, I don't think people leave it on and I would not recommend doing that.