Seems to me that you missed my earlier mostly semantics post on the topic.


Yeah no I caught that, pretty good one.

I am having an issue with poison ivy spreading and had your post quoted but the fucking itching was getting too much and had to go take off for the fay anyway.

Funny thing is I've never had an issue with ivy before.

Even when my friends caught it I never did so this is surprising.

I just decided to ignore it the last few days figuring it would go away but it has started spreading.

So I think What happened it when I scrubbed it I used hot water which spread the oil.

From what I gather now after doing some research is you have to use cold water and soap on the oil and then dry the skin out with something like alcohol or vinegar.

And some say to use mint so I am doing an experiment and using alcohol on one arm and lotion with mint on the other after scrubbing them with cold water and dishwashing soap.

I wonder if getting old just makes you more susceptible to shit and thats why I caught it when I never have before?

When I was young I literally rubbed the shit on my arm to prove to my friends that I don't catch it when they had it and said I was lucky I didnt touch it.

Had a buddy that wouldn't believe I was immune, the poor bastard was covered and told me he even got it on his prick just from taking a leak with it on his hand.

If that happens I'll be going straight to the fucking ER!