Poison Oak

Poison oak rash? Pretty sure you just need to quit hooking up with girls on FarmersOnlyDotCom

Clean your steering wheel real good,then the truck seats.
I get it by just looking at it.
Woke up Sunday morning and I could tell I had it because one of my eyes was really puffy.
I can tell it's in my system right now but fortunately no signs like I would usually get.
If you've had it enough you just know.
I was hunting with Spinal Tap Saturday evening. He decided to go to the right, I decided to go to the left, until I saw on the forest floor a low layer of PO carpet. Screw that.  I went straight back up and went into ambush mode. No PO on the rock I was sitting on top of.
I've read that in some people the body doesn't recognize it as a poison at first. You get it and whatever system your body uses to react to it identifies it. Then the next time if it recognizes it is when you react to it.
I've had the steroid pills, but the shots work best for me.
Wear your clothes out into the field. When yo get back strip down and put them in a plastic hefty bag, wash with Technu or at least an alcohol based sanitizer. Put on clean clothes from head to toe and forget about wearing the clothes you wore previously.
Have a few different outfits to wear unless you can launder the clothes right away before wearing them again.
PO is a beotch!!!!!!

my neighbor swears that by eating the leaves you gain immunity...and has shown me several times
but im too chicken to try it ...I don't get it bad
but the trick is to get the oil off your skin fast so tecnu, ajax, dawn, bleach. butter, oil ...anything that will dissolve the oils will work

My wife grew up playing in the hills of Marin and became quite sensitive to poison oak as a young child. The smallest contact would give her huge hives.  A doctor she saw thought that giving her tiny injections of poison oak would eventially desensitize her.  Shortly after the first injection she was in the hospital with hives through out her body.  Didn't desensitize her either.

Sounds like a change of clothes and a plastic bags for the used one AND a bar of PO soap in my camp supplies

Yeah, I have to change everything I do from here forward. Thanks for all the tips guys, and Paul, it was plenty of fish, not farmer's only.

For sure cold wash in stream and or mud immediately if you know you have been in the Bastard Brush. Then Tecnu. Also ++++ on bagging clothing and wash separately. Turns out wives etc. don't think the fact that you do outdoors work for a living is cool when they catch P.O. from your work cloths. Especially when she has a way worse reaction than I do.
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I would love to see you neighbor eat some leaves..you should youtube this...I am gonna do a search now 

I looked today for the website about folks getting it-and sharing info,but I could not find the site.
I looked at the stories on this site years back when I was home for a week with a face like a b-ball and peeling off...

anyways they say there are two kinds of people
those who have gotten, poison oak
and those who will ,get poison oak
the other thing I saw on there was big section about folk lore about poison oak

" natives used to make tea from the berries each spring to become immune"
They said you will not become immune this way ,but, you will become very very sorry....i would recommend to folks to not eat poison oak leaves  imho

My wife grew up playing in the hills of Marin and became quite sensitive to poison oak as a young child. The smallest contact would give her huge hives.  A doctor she saw thought that giving her tiny injections of poison oak would eventially desensitize her.  Shortly after the first injection she was in the hospital with hives through out her body.  Didn't desensitize her either.

 

EDIT...anyone had east coast poison Ivy..it's been almost ten years for me so the memory fades behind the more recent Cali Oak.,,,,toe to toe I'd put my 5 bucks on Cali oak...but I remember burning weeping skin back east a few times..once from not washing it off in time for sure


this guy makes sense but still why not use expensive soap and a wash cloth....what savings...I'll save money somewhere else..give ME the good stuff 

I used to practically roll in it as a kid and never got it then got it for the first time in my early thirties after holding a friends puppy who must have romped through it.
If you're stuck out in the bush and come in contact with PO and/or develop a rash from it locate and dig up soap root (Chlorogalum pomeridianum) crush or cut into the root bulbs and rub it on the affected area. It has a chalky feel and will help absorb the oils. Soap root often grows in the grassy areas around oak trees and PO and is easily spotted.
Indigenous people used it to treat PO as well as a poison to kill and collect fish in small streams.
Good luck

I used Fels naptha soap, with cold water, after exposure. I lived in north Idaho we didn't have poison oak there. Moved to California playing on a hillside sliding down the hill through bushes which turned out to be Poison Oak. Our whole bodies were swollen head to toes. Had to get shots. My in-laws swear swimming in Salt Water helped a lot. I worked in a laundry and would soak my arms in the water down bleach vat. It felt oh so good but I'm not sure it helped to dry it out.

Oh I meant to Ask Montana if they had Poison oak or Ivy there on Montana. Like I said in North Id we had nothing poisonous at all. But now imported from Most likely California they have black widow spiders.

Forgot to mention. Hot water feels GREAT! The hotter it is the better it feels. Just don't scald yourself, but you'll want to.

X2 on the hot water.. Feels so freekin good.  After the hot water I turn it to cold, this keeps the itch at ease for a while.