Monday, August 12, 2013

Poisen Ivy, Poisen Oak ?

I bought this place in town back in January and it certainly gives me something to do. The place has a home on it, large garage and four large grass lots to be regularly mowed as well as tall trees and a bunch of cedars.
In my effort to manage whatever grows under or near the mature cedars and ripping out some stuff close to the ground I must have touched some poisoned ivy or oak...Several large very inflamed looking areas on my forearms.
Happy Camper it says on the jar of Luv-ye-Face product. For Bug bites, Sunburn and Poison Ivy it states on the label.
I carefully washed the red and somewhat inflamed areas on my arm and applied a generous coating of  Happy Camper. I had already used the cream on a number of nasty little mosquito bites, there was no need for skin testing, I knew this stuff worked on bug bites the question was is it equally effective to fend off plant poisoning or sting.
It took a few days and most of the more serious inflammation is long gone. Now, about 2 weeks later there are only some tiny spots sort of like 25 pinhead red dots in a couple of areas the size of a quarter.
I will be a lot more careful removing weeds, in addition to gloves I will wear long sleeves and trousers with long pant legs. I hope the rest of the red spots will disappear, apparently with Ivy these areas return occasionally whereas Oak is a bit more forgiving.

The pictures show area two days after initial treatment ....and now its gone..almost.

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