Smoked! What Not to Put in a Fire

Nyboy said:

You can get it from your pets, oil on their hair you pet them.

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Pretty sure family dog does give it to me as well

To Bay and everybody else - I'm doing great, and I didn't breathe any into my lungs! I did go to the doctor's yesterday and after getting my lips and most of my face covered in PI, was more than happy to get two shots in my back end (steriods and something else that I can't prounounce let alone spell). I also need to take antibiotics for a week or two.

The itch nearly disappeared shortly after I got the shots. The only drawback is that I can't stay in the sun for an extended period of time because of the antibiotics (the sun does agitated my skin). The rashes on my lips and face have mostly receded, which - I'm nearly 100% as long as I can enjoy what I've been harvesting for the past couple of weeks!

I don't think that I'm comfortable putting bleach on my skin since my skin is unfortunately very sensitive to chemicals of any kind. As for the pine tar, we might actually have some of that. I think that we use pine tar for coating the goats hooves and dressing the occasional wound on our other animals. (As for the goats, I'll have to post some pictures of those - they're the Texas strain of Tennessee Fainting Goats.)

Kuska, we've actually used calamine lotion before, just used some this morning. I have bad reactions to poison ivy, but I'm glad that I don't get a reaction from stinging nettle - the yard is fine, but if I go hiking in the wild areas, I can't go a few feet without walking into one.

Nyboy, about not wanting to go to the doctors I would have to agree with Cane and Bay. Everybody in my family including me have some sort of "trust issues" when it comes to doctors too. After all, they are people too, and there are good and bad people. We've had both greedy doctors and dentists insist that one of us would need an organ transplants of some sort, or get crowns on all of these teeth -only to get a second opinion and find out that we didn't need any of that. Those doctors that were insisting that we do this or that just wanted to get more money in there own pockets! It's not that we're totally against modern medicine (It has drawbacks, as does home treatment) it's just that you shouldn't be using it for every ailment that you happen to experience. "Moderation is everything."

Nyboy said:

You can get it from your pets, oil on their hair you pet them.

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Yup! The dog slept on my bathrobe. I had PI in places I could never have reached otherwise.

SeedO, so glad to hear you're better. I was worried about you getting the oils into your lungs. I have heard horror stories...

SeedO, I wouldn't rely too heavily on those home remedy / homeopathic remedies as the product used may or may not contain enough of the active ingredient from one item to the next or even from one season to the next for effective treatment. NO label listing active ingredient much less the amount per dose.

I don't plan on using many home remedies when I'm on the prescribed medicine. I figure calamine lotion because it's external (and not quite a home remedy, at least according to how I define a home remedy). Want to avoid any potentially bad combinations. That and most of the herbal remedies have "side effects" or function as more than one thing. There's no telling what could happen if I use both at once!

But yes, you're right.

Everyone here cares about you, glad you broke down and went to Dr.

Making me itch reading this thread. This one acre was covered with PI when we got it 4 yrs ago. The first 2 years, every spring I would go around spraying them with roundup. Then we got chickens....so now I just pay ttention to where the vines are.
Glad you went to the Dr seedO. The Doc can at least give you treatments with stuff you can't get OTC or diy at home. Sounds like you got a bad dose of the smoke.

I feel miserable for you. I got PI really bad on vacation once. It to two rounds of steroids to clear it up. Unlike So Lucky I have not been so lucky. I will get it if I so much as stand near it. It comes into the house on the dog and the hubby. Grrr. They love to wallow in it then sit around spreading the oils onto surfaces I later come in contact with and get a nice oozy rash = During the season petting the dog and doing laundry sends me straight to the sink and soap for fear I have touch the oils. *sigh*

I need to mention that when ever I think I may have made contact with PI I wash with Fels Naptha.
My grandma always had a bar ready for the occasion that any of us would get near a patch of PI.

THANX RICH