Was wondering if anyone else that was at the CalRocs competition has come up with poison oak. My son and I were there on Saturday and he has just started to break out. Any body got any cures?

zanfel was what I was told to use. A few swore by it, but it didn't work for me.

I went to the Doc, got some prescription shiat that cleared it up.

cleaning the clothing for re-exposure is really important. the oil is supposedly alcohol based and normal soap won't get rid of it.

I am deathly allergic and I've found two very good things.

First, once you have it. www.Zanfel.com does everything it says. I wouldn't go out of my house if I didn't know this stuff existed. Sack up, stop choking on the price tag and get some. Follow the instructions and you will stop itching!!! It's that simple!! I can't begin to tell you have good this stuff is!! :D :D

Second to prevent it, I've tried alot of things but the one thing I've found that works very well, is Vaseline Intesive Care Water Reistant moisturizing lotion. Comes in a blue bottle. I put this on and have yet to get reinfected since I started. It's been a year of so, and I no longer fear wheelin' at Hollister Hills!!:rasta:

Originally posted by Dan-H
zanfel was what I was told to use. A few swore by it, but it didn't work for me.

I went to the Doc, got some prescription shiat that cleared it up.

cleaning the clothing for re-exposure is really important. the oil is supposedly alcohol based and normal soap won't get rid of it.

Your the first one I've heard of that it didn't work for Dan. Sorry to hear that. I know of some people that have reinfected them selves while cleaning with Zanfel. Since it breaks the Urishol bond with the skin, and if you don't wash it off all the way, you will reinfect yourself somewhere else on the body.:eek: I spent many a day at the hospital and got every shot and pill they could think of, and Zanfel was the only thing that helped me.

Or Accidentally eat some poison oak when you are a kid, so when you are older you are completely immune to it. :flipoff2: I once fell in a big field of poison oak and never broke out, while the guys I was with walked by it and broke out bad.

Zanfel is the stuff that I have heard about before. I guess he will have to try it. Surprised no one else has come up with it.

I don't get it:flipoff2: I had a friend that got it bad in the 4th grade, so I feed it to him, pushed it in his mouth....wow was he right! He broke out BAD:D :D ...Oh My Bad:flipoff2: :flipoff2:

<FONT COLOR="Red"> Wash your skin with TECNU and wash your clothes with FELS Naptha Soap (shave it off the bar in your laundry). Poison oak leaves have already dropped, so unless your an expert at spotting the stems, you're at risk.

I found that you need to be really careful handling your shoes after walking around in it. If you touch your shoes you will get the catechols on your hands, then spread it to your body wherever you touch. DO NOT take a piss without thouroughly washing your hands with one of the soaps I mentioned. Don't ask me how I know this, I'll just tell you that I never was alergic to it the first 40 years of my life... </FONT c>

yep, I got a mild case of it. I saw kids fully playing in poison oak this weekend. Im sure they are hating life right about now. :D

I got my first case in 40+ years this summer after repeatadly climbing a rock to jump in the river that was covered in it :(

It kept getting worse till I tracked down some zanfel. Stuff worked great...stopped the itch on 1st application. Did need to reapply like 3 times before it was gone for good. Shit is $$ but it worked for me

I'm surprized i didn't get it i cought myself running thru it a couple times.
We used to know a lady who purposely had her goats eat the stuff to remove from several neighbors yards, then thay milked the goats and made posion oak goat cheese, i ate some it was good, they say if ya ate it you be immune to it?? don't know??

Worst case is breathing the stuff fighting fires.. that fully sucks!!

I guess I'm a lucky s.o.b. then:eek:, cause I was wadin through it all day Sat and Sun. Even used handfuls of it for pulling myself up the slopes and got nary a sign of it. I must be immune or something. I don't remember ever getting poison oak or poison ivy or anything like that. :cool: Sorry to hear you guys got it. Do what Slick said and hopefully it will go away soon... :D:D:D

Supposedly if you slowly build up a concentration of poison oak extract in your system you build up a very good immunity to it. There is a product called OralIvy (sounds like a cheap porn flick) that you take a few drops of each day, and it supposed to make you immune. I have a bottle, just never got brave enough to drink PO, with my past reactions to it! :D

I remember years ago when I worked for the phone company they gave us some stuff called immuneoak... you dumped the vials in a glass of water and drank it, after a few treatments you were immune to it. Haven't seen it in years.

I saw people, kids, dogs , you name it running through it and I know they have to hurtin now. I don't get the stuff either but I love what one person said on Saturday to someone else " if it doesn't have the leaves on it you wont get it". Poor sucker:D

I heard some chick say that on Saturday, I was laughin'....adn then I ended up getting it :rolleyes:

I have contact dermatitis from a cactus named "Opuntia microdasys" since 5/27/05--it has these things "glochids" that stick intensly to skin-mine seemed to be an intense case of it. I am in TX and 3 M.D.s don't know what to do-I tried Zanfel and have done two apps--seemed to help at first-but now the outbreak has spread from arms to my ankles and neck- Does anyone knows anything about the possibility of combining contact dermatitis and an alergic reaction; where someithing like "urushiol" (found in poision oak/ivy etc.) are both going on at the same time. Would I see an allergist? My dermatologist, after 2 visits, kindly informed me that it was "over her head" Been to E.R, on anti-biotics for 8 wks, to a plastic surgeon (?? M.D. sent me there for scars ) I am now 4 mos into this, can't eat, sleep.or work. On verge of divorce. Am miserable and would appreciate any related info. Thanks. Miserable in Texas

I have been on Prednisone for a couple of months now because of a case of PO from the Badlands. After the PO cleared up, I had an alergic reaction to something else and was covered in red spots that turned black later on. Went to a derm. and he told me I had Lukocytoclastic Vasculitis. Strong doses of prednisone have taken it away for the most part and i'm starting to ease off the meds.

In the past I have gotten Poison Ivy from running trails and a small pack of prednisone would take it away.

first time on see longer message-must have messed it up somehow

I'm going to break out with it just for reading this thread!! I hear the name, and I get it!! :barf:

now if ya had been a boyscout, you would have known the remedy for it was growing 10' away from the poison oak

<FONT COLOR="Red"> Wash your skin with TECNU and wash your clothes with FELS Naptha Soap (shave it off the bar in your laundry). Poison oak leaves have already dropped, so unless your an expert at spotting the stems, you're at risk.

I found that you need to be really careful handling your shoes after walking around in it. If you touch your shoes you will get the catechols on your hands, then spread it to your body wherever you touch. DO NOT take a piss without thouroughly washing your hands with one of the soaps I mentioned. Don't ask me how I know this, I'll just tell you that I never was alergic to it the first 40 years of my life... </FONT c>

Gawd, this is an OLD thread... :eek:

And what ever happened to SLICK??? :massey:

Or Accidentally eat some poison oak when you are a kid, so when you are older you are completely immune to it. :flipoff2: I once fell in a big field of poison oak and never broke out, while the guys I was with walked by it and broke out bad.

So that actually works huh? My cousin heard that native americans used to eat poison oak to become immune so him and his buddy tried it. They were so bad off they wished they were dead, had rash all over their skin, under their eye lids, inside their noses...

I never asked if he was immune now that we're all grown up...

Burt's Bees Poison Ivy Soap, wash 2-3 times per day and it will be gone in a day or two unless it is really bad. Has some kind of lotion or something that stays on your skin and helps the itching too....all natural and available at any health food type store...used it for years with no problems and works great....