Home Remedies To Get Rid Of Poison Ivy Rash

Once you know you might have had contact with the Poison Ivy leaves, or alternatively, you feel an itchiness on your skin and see the first signs of the skin appearing to bubble and become contaminated, you should prepare a thick, preventative liquid to treat the poison.

This comprises of mixing together a combination 50% Baking Soda and 50% Distilled White Vinegaruntil they create a thickish paste, similar to peanut butter. Apply the paste over the contaminated skin and allow it to dry.

Next, take some liquid Hydrogen Peroxide and pour it carefully over the area to which you have just applied the paste.

Then, use a paper towel, cover the same area and apply as much pressure as you are able for around five minutes. You will probably see a little amount of red-coloured liquid oozing from the infected area.

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Don’t be worried as this liquid is a combination of the poisonous Urushiol fluid impregnated with blood issuing freely from the contaminated skin. Continue applying the pressure until the five minutes are up and then remove the paper towel.

Now take some rubbing alcohol and pour this over the affected area. Once more, place a paper towel on the wound and again apply hard pressure for several minutes, remove the paper towel and repeat the entire process several times, starting with the paste.

By this time you should start to see effective healing results, so that the bubbling and inflammation of the poisoned skin should start to decrease. Within about thirty minutes of starting the entire process, the itching should begin to ease up and the entire area that was affected by the poison ivy will start drying up.

Now you can apply the same paste made up with the Baking Soda and Distilled White Vinegar over the area and just let it dry for around half an hour. Once dry, remove this paste and repeat this entire process several times until all the poison has been removed and the bubbled, wounded area of skin has started to calm down and the itching has eased off.

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Advantages of Home Remedy

There are two main advantages to using this popular home remedy. First of all, the poisoned area of skin will stop itching more quickly, which in turn will alleviate the continual need to scratch the wound and possibly spread the poison.

Secondly, because of the speed of healing which reduces the urge to scratch the skin, it is unlikely that the skin itself will become severely bruised therefore minimising the risk of a permanent scar being left behind once the poison ivy has been removed from the area and the skin allowed to heal.

In the past people have tried various forms of remedial action in order to get rid of Poison Ivy, extending from the somewhat sublime forms of treatment right up to the most ridiculous and painful choices.

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They have tried to bath the affected area with regular “catch-all” solutions such as Calamine Lotion, which may temporarily soothe the skin yet does not remove the contaminating Poison Ivy itself.

There are those who have even scratched the affected area so much that the wound has become open, oozing both blood and poison itself.

However, they have then applied bleach to this area and whilst over a period of time the poison will in effect be killed off, the resulting pain has been so severe as to be almost unbearable. They are also still waiting for the scar, which was left behind on the skin to disappear, which is most unlikely.

How to get rid of Poison Ivy should involve a process that quickly soothes the itching, thus the need to scratch and subsequently scar the affected area, whilst at the same time, removing the poison itself and allowing the wound to heal quickly. The sooner such a treatment can be applied to the area affected by the Poison Ivy, the sooner the poisoned skin will be returned to is previously healthy, unscathed state.