personal protection in the heat, ticks, poison ivy?
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johnjk
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I never got poison ivy till about 5yrs ago. Now I look at it and get it. Now if I am cutting wood, long sleeves, long pants and wash exposed skin with dawn and post wash I wipe down with some 90% rubbing alcohol on my hands and arms. If I get it, it winds up being a dose of steroids to get over it. Ticks, I treat in the spring and do tick tubes. They have not been a problem this summer so far besides I can be in the brush all day and not get one, the wife walks to to compost pile and gets 3. Let’s talk chiggers. Now there is something I really despise.
As do I, along with no-see-ums
Just seeing that makes me itchy LOL. I'd burn that along with the wood it's sitting on!
I had two berry bushes fall victim to poison ivy last year. They'll actually break an older bush right in half from the weight if you don't catch it.
Lit them both up right where they were....Just went and tended to some others opposite side of the field to avoid the hospital trip.
Years ago when I cleared the land to build a house I burned enormous piles of brush that contained plenty of poison ivy. The smoke hung low in the air and drifted back over the hill. The next day in church a neighbor from over the hill came in and was covered with red hives, he asked me what I was burning. If you burn it, stay far away from the smoke.
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The worst I ever saw anyone get it was my BIL. He didn’t know what it looked like and went after it with a string trimmer. It was way up in some pine trees and he was smashing that stuff above his head. Drenched with sap and vine pieces. He ended up in the hospital for a few days with the only clear areas being his feet and where his shorts were. Hot day, no shirt, big mess
alphagal disease. Never know you have it until one day you eat a burger and a few hours later you're breaking out in rash, etc, and for no apparent reason. Write it off as some kind of unknown allergy, and next time you have a steak, same thing.
One of my coworker's wife has it. My ex BIL has it as well.
The coworkers sat down to eat a dinner the other night, just some hot dogs (turkey dogs). She can't have red meat so that's that. He bit into one and asked her why she got regular hot dogs and by then she'd already had two. She said I didn't I got turkey dogs. A few hours later she's broken out, sweating, etc. They dug the package out of the trash and it was labeled turkey dogs, but according to him they were half turkey and half beef hot dogs. I haven't heard any more about it, she's ok now, but he's still ticked that the store sold packaged dogs that were supposed to be turkey, and turned out to be beef. She also an avid deer hunter and that sucks because she can't eat the venison that she worked so hard to harvest. Can't have anything to do with red meat and there is a lot of foods out there that are made with some kind of red meat.
All from...a tick bite.
that's me. I am highly allergic to the smoke. I have had angioedima from it, couldn't breathe, rash, etc. Of course when I live out here, it never fails SOMEONE is gonna burn that stuff off and when there is smoke in the air, I go in the house. I have to keep an epipen as well. Angioedima is rough.