I am highly sensitive to poison ivy. I get it easily and then need a Corticosteroid prescription to get rid of it.Anybody ever worry about this? I'm in a tree right now and single stocked up. I know my rope has to be full of the oil.
If so what do you recommend? I know some chemicals can be harsh on certain materials.
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Dawn dish detergent. You can wash again with unscented, but the dawn will break up the oils much better than most hunting soaps.Anybody ever worry about this? I'm in a tree right now and single stocked up. I know my rope has to be full of the oil.
If so what do you recommend? I know some chemicals can be harsh on certain materials.
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That must be a great tree to hunt out of. I would have passed and picked another tree.
I have gotten in the habit of cutting a 2-3” gap in the vines growing on any tree I think may be a potential stand tree for me. I do this during my post season scouting before they have put leaves back on. Typically they are dry as a bone by the time season rolls around.
Saw it and it is true. I was breaking off limbs this summer on the edge of the food plot by hand while waiting to get in the tractor, no gloves, and grabbed one without paying attention. It was not a tree limb, but a 1" thick poison limb. It has a very unique feel, unlike any other, if you have ever made that mistake you know what I mean. I immediately rubbed dry dirt on my hand and scrubbed like crazy. I poured Gatorade over my hands and then scrubbed with dirt (and then again). Went to the truck and used up a whole small bottle of hand sanitizer, scrubbed and dried with paper towels. Finished working and got home a few hours later before an actual washing, but never got a reaction. That video is what triggered my response and was $.I saw a video that made a lot of sense to me. It's not what you use that matters most (dawn, technu etc) it s HOW you work it. the poison ivy oils are like axle grease and it takes scubbing and elbow grease to get it off. I use dawn and one of those puff things to scrub down when I think may have been exposed. So far so good and in the past I could get it from looking at it.. I think the youtube was never get poison ivy again.
There is no place i haven't had it , best though and this is true, buddy of mine was surveying for corp of eng when we were in co!lege, wiped his butt with it, most agony i have seen. Better him than me. He could not wear clothes for 2 weeksI got poison ivy so bad one time I even had it on my junk. . No lie. I was on oral steroids as well as shots along with antibiotics. I stay away from it and will pass on a tree with it. I have given up looking for more than one ProVI AND JUST TAKEN THE PENALTY.