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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 697225" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>You might be helped by a cream or gel containing lidocaine. BurnJel Plus, sold at CVS in the first aid section, has helped my brother with poison ivy. I gave him a bottle a few years ago. My mom had him try it when he got poison ivy and it worked well for him. It is less expensive than the zanfel, though if the zanfel is working you may want to stick with it. I vividly remember having had poison ivy as a child and it was awful!</p><p></p><p>I was immune to poison ivy until I was about six, then I got a really awful case of it - even had to miss school because I was just covered. I have no idea why I stopped being immune. As a 4 yo I drove my mother nuts by planting it in her rock garden. She would get it all pulled out and I would replant it. It had such pretty, shiny leaves, I couldn't figure out who kept pulling it out, so I would replant it. She says I replanted it six times. She only figured it out when I accused a neighbor of 'stealing' my pretty plants out of the garden! The neighbor was terribly amused by my accusation, and was not at all offended, thankfully! </p><p></p><p>Now when we have had poison ivy we have had my dad get rid of it. He is incredibly immune to it. He once worked in a school where all the teachers had their plants ruined by students pulling all the leaves off of them. He brought in a big pot of poison ivy with a big sign saying that it was poisonous and not to touch it. He caught a group of boys gathered around it and it was missing leaves from about 1/4 of the plant. He lined the boys up and demanded they empty their pockets to find out who had it. It wasn't in any of their pockets. A couple of hours later two boys couldn't sit still or stop scratching their crotches. Turns out they hid the leaves down their pants. He sent them to the nurse and they ended up having to stay home for several days because they couldn't stand to have pants on over the rash. No one messed with any of the plants in his school again, lol! Dad didn't get into trouble because he had the plants for a science project and he had announced to each of his classes that the plant was poisonous and not to touch it for any reason and in addition he had the sign that warned the kids to stay away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 697225, member: 1233"] You might be helped by a cream or gel containing lidocaine. BurnJel Plus, sold at CVS in the first aid section, has helped my brother with poison ivy. I gave him a bottle a few years ago. My mom had him try it when he got poison ivy and it worked well for him. It is less expensive than the zanfel, though if the zanfel is working you may want to stick with it. I vividly remember having had poison ivy as a child and it was awful! I was immune to poison ivy until I was about six, then I got a really awful case of it - even had to miss school because I was just covered. I have no idea why I stopped being immune. As a 4 yo I drove my mother nuts by planting it in her rock garden. She would get it all pulled out and I would replant it. It had such pretty, shiny leaves, I couldn't figure out who kept pulling it out, so I would replant it. She says I replanted it six times. She only figured it out when I accused a neighbor of 'stealing' my pretty plants out of the garden! The neighbor was terribly amused by my accusation, and was not at all offended, thankfully! Now when we have had poison ivy we have had my dad get rid of it. He is incredibly immune to it. He once worked in a school where all the teachers had their plants ruined by students pulling all the leaves off of them. He brought in a big pot of poison ivy with a big sign saying that it was poisonous and not to touch it. He caught a group of boys gathered around it and it was missing leaves from about 1/4 of the plant. He lined the boys up and demanded they empty their pockets to find out who had it. It wasn't in any of their pockets. A couple of hours later two boys couldn't sit still or stop scratching their crotches. Turns out they hid the leaves down their pants. He sent them to the nurse and they ended up having to stay home for several days because they couldn't stand to have pants on over the rash. No one messed with any of the plants in his school again, lol! Dad didn't get into trouble because he had the plants for a science project and he had announced to each of his classes that the plant was poisonous and not to touch it for any reason and in addition he had the sign that warned the kids to stay away. [/QUOTE]
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