[TheForge] Blacksmith medical cure

[Jerry Smith]

         Poison ivy actually leaves a resin on your skin that you react to. 
The blisters are filled with a fluid that your body is using to fight the 
irritation. The reason it spreads it that the resin is spread on skim.
         If you wash up after exposure to the poison ivy with either 
vinegar or bleach, that will destroy the resin from the plant. If wash up 
with strong soap and water you will reduce the possibility of the 
irritation, but if the soap isn't strong enough, you may spread it. I use 
the bleach approach it has worked for me almost three decades now.

Jerry

At 12:31 PM 9/28/2004, you wrote:
>Ah, I was told (I'm no doctor) that your skin catches the oil and
>that's why it spreads when you scratch. I have to say, though, I've
>never experienced the spreading phenomenon. I throught I was just
>lucky.
>
>Anyway.
>
>JRF
>--- "Mark A. Pesetsky" <pesetsky at Princeton.EDU> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Scrubbing the heck out of poison ivy with a nailbrush and gojo never
> > fails
> > for me. The nailbrush opens the pockets of oil trapped in your skin
> > and the
> > gojo dissolves it so it doesn't spread, it just goes down the drain.
> > Dries
> > the skin out, too, and the best part is you get the SCRATCH.
> >
> > JRF
> >
> >
> >
> > The fluid under the skin is not oil...it doesn't spread. It is the
> > bodies
> > immune system fighting the oil...
> >
> > Mark
> >
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