Poison Ivy "Cure"
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 2:51 pm
Poison ivy loves me and I've never found anything that I consider to be effective...UNTIL RECENTLY.
My usual course is about 2.5 weeks start to finish. I get exposed but have no symptoms for 2 - 3 days. Day 3 to Day 14 is a worsening of symptoms and no real relief. Day 15 to Day 18, the itch stops and the rash starts to subside.
Urushiol from the plant binds on a molecular level to the cells and no amount of washing will unbind it.
A salesman for mean green fell into a large patch of poison ivy while on the road and washed it off with Mean Green Power Hand Scrub. It worked so well that he took the same active ingredients and created Zanfel.
Now when I read about it, I was very skeptical. I've tried everything under the sun (shots, oatmeal, creams, clucking like a chicken... You name it) but nothing actually treated the cause. Everything was simply symptom control while waiting on the body to destroy every cell bound with urushiol. I can say without a doubt that zanfel works as described. The itch goes away almost immedietely and stays gone. I have yet to try it BEFORE a rash breaks out but I'm sure it would prevent a rash if I knew I was exposed. Usually in 3 days with 1 treatment per day, the rash is gone.
I don't know that zanfel has exactly the same proportions of detergents as the hand scrub, but I'm going to buy a tub of Mean Green Power Hand Scrub for my next bout. Nobody sells it locally but im sure I can find it online. Zanfel is $30 - $40 for one ounce (compared to $3 - $4 per ounce for the hand scrub). If the hand cleaner doesn't work like zanfel, I'll still pay that insane price because it really does work that well. I've used it on the last 3 outbreaks with the same great results. I went to the doctor and got a steroid hot this time since I got it all over my manhood. I was always told face or genitals...go to Dr.
Sorry for the long post but hopefully it helps someone else who is hypersensitive to poison ivy like I am.
My usual course is about 2.5 weeks start to finish. I get exposed but have no symptoms for 2 - 3 days. Day 3 to Day 14 is a worsening of symptoms and no real relief. Day 15 to Day 18, the itch stops and the rash starts to subside.
Urushiol from the plant binds on a molecular level to the cells and no amount of washing will unbind it.
A salesman for mean green fell into a large patch of poison ivy while on the road and washed it off with Mean Green Power Hand Scrub. It worked so well that he took the same active ingredients and created Zanfel.
Now when I read about it, I was very skeptical. I've tried everything under the sun (shots, oatmeal, creams, clucking like a chicken... You name it) but nothing actually treated the cause. Everything was simply symptom control while waiting on the body to destroy every cell bound with urushiol. I can say without a doubt that zanfel works as described. The itch goes away almost immedietely and stays gone. I have yet to try it BEFORE a rash breaks out but I'm sure it would prevent a rash if I knew I was exposed. Usually in 3 days with 1 treatment per day, the rash is gone.
I don't know that zanfel has exactly the same proportions of detergents as the hand scrub, but I'm going to buy a tub of Mean Green Power Hand Scrub for my next bout. Nobody sells it locally but im sure I can find it online. Zanfel is $30 - $40 for one ounce (compared to $3 - $4 per ounce for the hand scrub). If the hand cleaner doesn't work like zanfel, I'll still pay that insane price because it really does work that well. I've used it on the last 3 outbreaks with the same great results. I went to the doctor and got a steroid hot this time since I got it all over my manhood. I was always told face or genitals...go to Dr.
Sorry for the long post but hopefully it helps someone else who is hypersensitive to poison ivy like I am.
