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Outdoor Joe's Poison Ivy Pro

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A couple of years ago there was a thread on removing poison ivy oils from ropes. In it, @Bwhana mentioned that he had taken "Rhus Tox" pills years ago when he worked outdoors, and that they completely eliminated his sensitivity to the oil in poisonous plants. All the poisonous plants (ivy, oak, sumac) have an oil known as "urushiol" on them that causes the itchy rash on people that have a sensitivity to it. That Rhus Tox product is no longer available in pill form, but there's a company selling a liquid homeopathic solution that contains the same active ingredient in solution. Their website claims that if you follow their simple dosing approach, it will completely eliminate sensitivity to contact with poison ivy/oak/sumac for the majority of users, and greatly reduce the reaction/rash/itchiness for the rest of the users.

Link: Medical Study available on Outdoor Joe's Poison Ivy Pro

Link: Outdoor Joe's Poison Ivy Pro Website

Have any of you tried this product? If so, please share your experience with regard to its effectiveness. Thanks!
 
Look up homeopathic. It’s snake oil.
Source: I’m a pharmacist
Believe me, I wish it was legit. I get poison ivy EVERY YEAR.
 
Poison ivy finds me, if I'm at all in doubt of exposure, a very thorough scrub down with dawn dish soap and a good washcloth. If I get it scrubbed within 3 or 4 hours I'm fine. Within 6 or 8 I might have a minor rash for a day or two. I had serious enough rashes to need treatment 3 times when I was younger. but since I adopted my scrubbing routine haven't had more than a very minor outbreak in 10 years.

Pro tip also, treat every dead squirrel and rabbit and the like as if they're drenched in it. Cause I killed one time that apparently was and got covered in it.
 
elk yinzer said:
Poison ivy finds me, if I'm at all in doubt of exposure, a very thorough scrub down with dawn dish soap and a good washcloth. If I get it scrubbed within 3 or 4 hours I'm fine. Within 6 or 8 I might have a minor rash for a day or two. I had serious enough rashes to need treatment 3 times when I was younger. but since I adopted my scrubbing routine haven't had more than a very minor outbreak in 10 years.
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This is the way.
 
Strangely enough, my dad wasn’t allergic to poison ivy/oak etc., and neither am I. I positively rolled in that stuff when I was a teenager building deer stands in trees absolutely covered in the stuff. I would pull down vines as thick as your wrist while wearing a wife beater. I would get a few small blisters on my back, which actually scarred, but I have never broken out or itched from the stuff in my life. My mom on the other hand, was deathly allergic to it. If she looked at it she broke out.
 
2Sloe said:
Strangely enough, my dad wasn’t allergic to poison ivy/oak etc., and neither am I. I positively rolled in that stuff when I was a teenager building deer stands in trees absolutely covered in the stuff. I would pull down vines as thick as your wrist while wearing a wife beater. I would get a few small blisters on my back, which actually scarred, but I have never broken out or itched from the stuff in my life. My mom on the other hand, was deathly allergic to it. If she looked at it she broke out.
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Im the same way. I ripped vines and vines of sumac off of the trees down here and the worst I ever got was just my ears and nose itching a little and peeling. No rash no large blisters none of that. My buddy Mike who helped clear the vines… his arms hands and chest all looked like he was boiled alive.
 
elk yinzer said:
Poison ivy finds me, if I'm at all in doubt of exposure, a very thorough scrub down with dawn dish soap and a good washcloth. If I get it scrubbed within 3 or 4 hours I'm fine. Within 6 or 8 I might have a minor rash for a day or two. I had serious enough rashes to need treatment 3 times when I was younger. but since I adopted my scrubbing routine haven't had more than a very minor outbreak in 10 years.

Pro tip also, treat every dead squirrel and rabbit and the like as if they're drenched in it. Cause I killed one time that apparently was and got covered in it.
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Scrubbing with Technu or even Dawn detergent and a hand towel works good when you’re aware you may have been exposed, but sometimes you don’t know you’ve been exposed. And sometimes you won’t be able to get to cleaned up before the urushiol causes a reaction. What if you travel through poison ivy in the dark on your way to/from a setup?

For these reasons it would be good to promote desensitization … and I’d give the product a try if others have found it to be effective. That’s why I’m asking if anyone has experience using it.

As to whether it’s snake oil, the verdict isn’t in (for me) unless I’ve given it a try. The idea of reducing allergic reactions through controlled exposure to allergens isn’t new though, nor is it medically unsound. Allergy specialists administer courses of shots of allergens to patients to reduce their sensitivity over time, and it works for a lot of people.

I appreciate all of your responses so far - even those in jest. Based on what’s been posted so far, it doesn’t appear that anyone has actually tried this particular product. If you’re reading this and you have, please share your experience and your assessment of the product’s effectiveness.
 
Just two useless things to add, I recently met a guy who swears he went to a “bee dude” for regular stingings and that cured his asthma and allergies.

Couple summers ago I pulled a root from a plow, appppparently it was poison ivy, that rash was so deep I don’t know how skin recovers.
 
Just reading this post is making me itch. I’ve had to result to getting a prescription of Prednisone (steroid) filled every year around the beginning of hunting season because I know I’m gonna eventually need it due to poison ivy. I’ve had to go to the ER twice to get a shot due to my eye swelling shut after being exposed to it.
 
LoadedLimbs said:
As to whether it’s snake oil, the verdict isn’t in (for me) unless I’ve given it a try. The idea of reducing allergic reactions through controlled exposure to allergens isn’t new though, nor is it medically unsound. Allergy specialists administer courses of shots of allergens to patients to reduce their sensitivity over time, and it works for a lot of people.
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I agree that the science of using controlled exposure to allergens has been researched and is a medically sound practice.

For homeopathic treatments a process of serial dilutions is used where the “essence” of whatever compound is extracted. If you do the math, the final product may have one MOLECULE of the original compound remaining. But, more likely, what you end up with is just a mixture of alcohol and/or water.I would just hate to see you waste time and money that you could be spending on a new climbing method/saddle/adult arrows or scentlock and a hecs suit… (too far?)
 
I used to go squirrel hunting with an uncle who randomly pulled off a leaf of poison ivy and ate it. I was so sensitive to it I would not let him sit next to me.
 
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