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Poison Ivy Tips
I offered to help my Nana this weekend with her flower beds. She just informed me that a couple of the back are over run with poison ivy. I've never delt with poison ivy before (that I know of) so does anyone have any helpful hints on how to deal with it and not end up spending the weekend covered in calomine lotion and itching?
Thanks!
Nichole
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Re: Poison Ivy Tips
1. Put poison ivy blocker on every inch of skin on your arms, legs, neck, chest, and face (ask your pharmacist if you can't find it on the shelf).
2. Wear a long sleeved shirt and long pants. I recommend using old clothes that you can just throw away when you're done. If you don't have clothes that you can toss, IMMEDIATELY wash your clothes in hot water afterwards. Like disrobe in the laundry room immediately. Buy some of the long sleeve latex dishwashing gloves to put over your gardening gloves--you throw away the latex and haven't contaminated your gardening gloves.
3. If possible, spray with poison ivy killer a couple of days before you go to pull it out.
ditto pp, but in case you are really sensitive, Cortaid also makes a scrub that you use after you have come in contact with Poison Ivy that I use just to be extra careful. It works great. My dad also used to wash down with a diluted bleach solution, I've never tried that.
If the beds are truly overrun with poison ivy, I'd be offering to help Nana pay for a professional to come in and spray with herbicide then remove those flower beds and start from scratch. (At a minimum, I'd spray the area w herbicide and not touch the area for a month or more.) I'm itching just thinking about the evil that is poison ivy. I'm quite allergic to it, so it's not something I take lightly. If I am plucking a few individual plants that pop up in my garden, I use neoprene gloves, put the plants into a garbage bag, tie the top, toss in outdoor garbage can along w the gloves, then run into the house and wash my hands and arms. I rinse first w cool water so my pores aren't as likely to open, then I use dawn dishsoap as the degreaser disolves the oils. That night, I will take benedril at bedtime for good measure, and if I get even one spot of poison ivy rash, I'll take the benedril for a few more nights.
What ever you do, do not burn what you have pulled.
I would definitely just throw your clothes away, and when you take the clothes off I would still wear gloves, you can still get it from just touching your clothes and shoes that have the oil on them.