What's the best way to wash poison ivy out of your tree straps? :(
Please don't lecture me on avoiding trees with vines or tell me all about how you're completely immune. :)
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What's the best way to wash poison ivy out of your tree straps? :(
Please don't lecture me on avoiding trees with vines or tell me all about how you're completely immune. :)
The oil must be removed. Good old soap and water should do it. Beyond that, alcohol, preferably not good Scotch Whiskey, would help, then wash again in soap and water. I am no expert, but I think it would do it. Mule
I think someone makes a special cleaner to remove the oils that comes from poison ivy, but it may just be for your skin.
I think its called Technu or something like that. I saw it at Wal Mart
I just got a free sample of Tecnu when I bought Caligel. It says it decontaminates laundry, pets, and tools.
I don't know if they still make it or not but Fels Naptha bar soad was a constant companion for my brother when he was young. If you but said "Poison Ivy" he broke out. I hope this thread didn't do anything to him. Of course if you find/use the bar soap you'll need to wear golves while scrubbing.
I might add that anything the straps touched should be cleaned as well. I've had a bad experience with shoelaces on hiking shoes reinfecting me two weeks after I was healed up!!
Isn't that the chemical name for white gas or denatured alcohol, can never remember which?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramblinrev
I use hand sanitizer whenever I start to itch on my skin. I don't get poisen ivy, but everything else out there makes me itch. I'm thinking anything with alcohol should work.
They still make it, I have some at home. It’s generally found in a market along with the laundry soap. Even though it’s a bar soap, it may not be among the Ivory and Irish Spring.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramblinrev
Poison Ivy secretes oil which some people are allergic to and have the well known reactions. This soap is supposed to cut through the oil. Once a person has thoroughly cleaned the oil off their skin, another person can’t ‘catch’ poison ivy from them. I’d think the same would apply to straps, although cleaning them may be more difficult.
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I don't know about Poison Ivy, but Poison Oak, I have a lot of experience with.
First thing is to take some STRONG soap with you.
Wash yourself with lots of suds and COLD WATER.
Hot water will open your pores and you'll end up worse off.
Wash your gear with any strong detergent that will cut oil.
Dish soap is good for that.
Rinse, rinse, rinse.
Best thing I found in the field for Poison Oak was a tea made from Manzanita or Oak Bark.
Dried it right up.
i dont do anything,i have hung with poison ivy with no problem so far:cool:neoQuote:
Originally Posted by Coldspring
Yeah, some people are lucky.
My granddad used to swear by eating a tiny leaf each spring.:eek:
I was always afraid my throat would swell shut.
He said don't chew it, just swallow it.
He said it would immunize him.
He never got poison oak.
I got it every year.
Maybe he was right.:p
Euell Gibbons was one who I believe promoted that idea of eating the tiny leaves of poison oak/poison ivy. Of course while "many parts of a pine tree are edible"... He did die in the interview chair for the **** Cavett Show. Not a bad way to go... but all in all... probably not the best advertisement for his concepts.
Hahaha!
Yeah, will, at 89, my grandad was old enough to be Euell's daddy.
Gibbons didn't invent those ideas, he just wrote about them. :p
i remember him well on tv in the post grapenuts commercial.he was one of my favorites outdoorsman icons growing up:cool:neo
I'm the same way Neo and we are lucky with that... so far. I've heard of people's luck suddenly changing and getting a bad case of it so I try to be aware and avoid it as much as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by neo
A few of my backpacking buddies over the years have been sensitive to it and send me out to get water when the only way to it is through some poison ivy... or so they say.:D
I heard Euell Gibbons died of Dutch Elm disease. (smile)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramblinrev
David
Don't combine this idea with the idea about smoking a pipe or cigar in your hammock. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Coffee
I have gotten poison ivy every spring for the past 15 years. I know, I know, I get a lot of ribbing for not being able to identify it, especially when I'm so highly allergic, but I think it comes from my dog. The doctor expects my call starting in March, and running all through the summer. They were starting to think that I had it in my bloodstream, or that I'd pick it up from the air. I only have to know that it's around, and I get it. I finally threw out my sleeping bag, because I suspected it was in the fabric and despite numerous washes, I would still get the wonderful rash. So I'm no help in telling you how to get rid of it. Just don't burn the infected stuff if you decide to get rid of it - I've heard that burning is the absolute worse thing to do with poison ivy oils.