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From: bea@alice.UucP (Bea Chambers)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Any cures for poison ivy out there?
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 10:39:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 10:39:51 1985
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This is the 3rd time I've gotten p.i. messing around with our garden/yard.
Yes, (after the first time), I do what it looks like and I manage to
avoid it most of the time. We have a lot of back yard and there is just too
much to kill. Most of the time, if I shower with brown soap within 1/2 hour
of gardening, I am ok. But a few times, I get going into exciting things
like weeding, taking clippings to our local dump, etc. and I don't get
to the brown soap cure quickly enough. (or I miss a spot and that pesky
p.i. oil finds it!)

I use one of the cortisone creams for the itching and that helps a little.
Once, when I managed to get it 4 days before a trip to Europe,  I went to
the doctor who gave me prendisone. Worked fine but I am a little nervous
about wonder drugs.
 
Does anyone know if you can be desensitized to poison ivy? That would
be the easiest way for me. I hate the thought of giving up gardening and
stuff but I don't care to have several bouts with p.i. either.
Thanks a lot.