Poison Oak

[Gyopo]

[QI have a prescription (the wifes actually since she is super allergic) that is a steroid cream. I used it after choppers when I started to break out and it did a great job of stopping itching and minimizing the break out. Sorry, can't remember the name.UOT][/QUOTE]

I think Barroid Bonds called it Flaxseed oil.

 

[Zimm]

Steve, what are you talking about? That hog was a monster, he just smoked a lot when he was young and it stunted his growth a little

I need names of the sh!t medicine, so I can order it...can you ask the wife and let me know?

Thanks bro!!!

Zimm

 

[BDB]

Ah well, I tried, I think you missed my intention in the first line. Oh well, no matter. I will read the tube tonight if I can, it's pretty scrunched up right now, and post up the name of the cream. Any doctor should be able to percribe a steroid cream to help with the itching. Wouldn't be the first time would it Zimm ??

J/K bud

 

[easymoney]

Lot's of great info...
Jesse is very correct on Technu, and it is the best stuff out there is, period. The oil from the poison oak is the cuprit, once it is on your animals, tools, gun, clothes, etc, you need to wash it off ASAP. It doesn't wear off by it self or time. I don't get it but my wife and daughter pick it up from the dogs or my tools.
Once you have the symptoms of the deadly oak, use Dermpax HC. It stops the itch and gets clears up the oak in a few days. Calamine and the others don't clear up the symptoms for weeks.

 

[Rancho Loco]

I was just wading through it wednesday up at a property in Boulder Creek...Thirteen acres of dead in the water pick-up trucks, buses, vans, and various other mechanical devices all covered with poison oak. I've never seen so much of the stuff.
Nothing worth dragging away...As soon as I got home I took off all my clothes with kitchen tongs and slathered the technu creme.

I'm clean this time.

 

[JustAl]

I'm curious, for those of you guys that got poison oak or have it, is it from touching the hog or walking through the brush? It seems like a lot of you guys like to blaze your own trail through the bush.

For those of you who have hunted with Tom Willoughby, did you do a lot of blazing your own trail or did you follow existing trails? I don't mean to sound like a sissy, but I can't afford to get the stuff. Choppers sounds like a sure way to get it. How many have gotten Poison oak while hunting with Tom?

 

[Rancho Loco]

The oil from the leaves and broken stems is very fugitive.

Hogs spend most of the day and night running through the stuff...You shoot one, and then drag it out. Along the way you take a leak...Guess who's not going to be having much fun for awhile? You have just grabbed a handful of oil off the dead hog's hair and then spread it on your hootus and who knows where else.

The same thing can happen if your dog (or mine

) runs through it and then later you pet the pup, and then rub your eyes and nose.

Just consider the stuff radioactive. If you brush against it, you just spread radioactivity to your skin or clothes. If you throw your radioactive clothes on the chair at home in the evening - that chair is now radioactive.

It's quite a amazing plant. Did you all know you can buy the stuff in flats to plant for erosion control and native rehabitat plantings?

 

[SierraExplorer]

Originally posted by JustAl@Apr 15 2005, 11:02 PM
How many have gotten Poison oak while hunting with Tom?

I never have- But then again I never have had the pleasure of shaking the hand of any red/ozzing/tearry eyed/bow-legged person that has not hunted on Choppers in person after the hunt.

Does he hunt/stalk wearing runner flyfishing waders? Or is he that sacraficial??

I am looking foreward to growing my Lumps at Choppers again this fall

(Even thinking of forgoing rifle deer to get back up their.

- well mabey a week or 3 attempts for rifle deer.

)

 

[BDB]

Originally posted by Zimm@Apr 15 2005, 02:51 PM
I need names of the sh!t medicine, so I can order it...can you ask the wife and let me know?

Thanks bro!!!

Zimm

The stuff I have is called:

Fluocinonide Cream USP, 0.05%

Disclaimer: The stuff works for me. Milage for others may vary.

 

[BDB]

JustAl: Pretty much all of California below about 4 or 5 thousand feet is swimming in the evil stuff this year due to all the rain. I'd bet my next paycheck Tom's place is full of it too !!!

 

[larrysogla]

How are we going to hunt hogs now that there is so much poison lurking in the bushes??????? Even rabbit hunts can turn into a skin nightmare????? Any real preventive suggestions???? Don't want to swell & itch & pus like a tortured toad????

 

[Orso]

Larry,

Always be contious of it, avoid it when at all possible. It comes down to how much you want to hunt. You want to hunt smart, but sometimes you need to hunt hard... Then it's just a matter of dealing with it.

 

[larrysogla]

Orso,
You ever had a bad case of poison oak'itis'???????? Is wearing plastic gloves & disposing of it(in your own plastic bag of course, don't litter) before handling one's person going to fix the problem?????? Disposable plastic gloves are cheap?????
Thanks. God Bless. larrysogla.

 

[scr83jp]

I worked as a wildlife aid one summer in the Angeles National Forest where I contracted Rhus trilobita poison oak to you,even gave it to my then pregnant wife.The crew leader was a ds who insisted heading into the chaparral but he got his reward, top to bottom covered with poison oak requiring hospitalization.Calamine lotion,tannic acid ,soap and water plus other treatments worked a little.I still steer clear of it,anyone fighting a brush fire can get it from the smoke.

 

[Orso]

Larry,

I've had it but not to the extent of some. Though I didn't use plastic gloves on my last trip I was spared from breaking out. I always have plastic surgical gloves in my day pack and extras back with my gear at the truck. They are good to have with you.

In the past I have used the gloves while field dressing and skinning my game. As I think about it though, I've never used them to pull game to the truck. I guess I probably should.

 

[BDB]

Avoid it while hunting best you can. If you shoot a hog, drag it, gut and skin then wash your hands fast. All clothes worn go in a container until you get home to wash them. Have fresh clothes and shoes that haven't seen the woods for after you wash the oak off of your person. That should keep any outbreak to a minimum.

 

[larrysogla]

Thanks. Fresh set of clothes in the truck & 'nother black lawn trash bag for the "contaminated" clothes. Great idea. God Bless. larrysogla.

 

[BGH831]

So I take it nobody has hear of this "oral ivy" stuff huh. The caretaker of the nieghbors up north swears by it and my mother in lnlaw takes it no matter what. She has it, I can't find it, I'll get the info and pass it on but seems to be the trick according to them.