Ok found this ? Is it safe to use bleach on poison ivy rashes?!


Question: Ok found this ? Is it safe to use bleach on poison ivy rashes?
Many of the other people were really downing using bleach on poison ivy, that it was danger, cause your skin to blister, not generally put on skin, only use vinegar, and oatmeal... now they can do what they want. But they need to do more research. As a seasoned pro. who has to deal with many things in the animal kingdom and people who work outside all the time. Bleach water is the best way to get your rash over fast. like in a day or two, so it dose not have to go on for weeks, it also kills germs, it even saved my live once when trying to give an animal a shot and missed and got all over my arm. Now for not general used on skin they say, well swimming comes to mind chlorine anyone and if you live in the city you even drink it, you bath in it, you even wash your hair in it. And come to think of it I do not know many real swimmers that the p-ivy and other things don't really bother them. I was told when I turned into a teen to go swimming by a Skin doctor, wash your face with bleach water every night, and low and behold, I do not get bumps,.. I even did a test and rolled in p-ivy and I never got a thing Again.WOW! Should you drink it NO! should you put it on your skin Only if you want it to stay nice, You do what you want but I am going to always use it. Oh and I should let you no the only thing the vinegar did was burn and make me red and smell like a acid salad. It did stop itching for about 10 min's the one and last time I tried it, and if you have it on your face with Vinegar, don't get it in your hair, I know people wash there hair with it but it turned it red. luckily I only got it on the front and in a few days it went away. If you do use the bleach read directions, don't put it in your eyes, watch your hair, and don't huff it, or ingest it. You know like common scents stuff. Hu sounds like the same rule's for the steroid they try to give you for acne medicine. Oh wait that has bleach in it too... so is it the steroid that makes you grow hair on your face, or is it the bleach killing the germ and controlling your rash... I don't know, I'd think about that. But as for me no more pricey skin doc trips, and always have nice skin, I like that choice better.

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Personally I would not use bleach. Soothe itching with cool, wet compresses.

Add approximately 5 c. ground oatmeal or baking soda to a cool bath and soak for 15 to 30 minutes.

Add baking soda or Epsom salts to your bath, or make a paste of either of these and apply it to the rash.

Opt for lotions containing calamine, alcohol and zinc acetate; these will dry the blisters and help speed healing.

Leave the rash open to air. That will help it heal.

Talk to your doctor about taking an oral antihistamine if you are extremely uncomfortable or if the rash is covering a large area of your body.

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