5 Minute Refresher Course: Poison Oak, Poison Ivy, and Poison Sumac Identifying & Treating

by EzekielDiet.com
Posted on Sep 12, 2024

Ezekiel Diet Note: It’s been 50 years since I got into a patch of poison oak, ivy or sumac.

Because it’s been so long I just wasn’t thinking about it or even considering it as possible. Mistake #1

Poison sumac is a plant I’ve never seen or knew about. So I wasn’t even aware that a plant growing in the middle of an Azalea bush in my yard was poison sumac. Mistake #2. A bird must have deposited a seed in it’s droppings that took root.

Somehow I got the poison on my waist. I must have got it on my hands and then pulled my pants up (from weight loss) and got the poison on my waistband.

Day 1: I think it must be a mosquito bite I got in the middle of the night. So I lost the opportunity to take immediate action to stop the spread on day 1. Mistake #3.

Day 2: I still don’t know what this rash is. It’s spreading and itching a lot. I lost day 2 to get the rash under control.

Day 3: It’s the size of 2 hand prints and I realize it must be poison oak, ivy or sumac. I haven’t had a rash like this for 50 years and all I knew to use was the old pink Calamine Lotion to dry it up. Mistake #4.

Day 4: I realize pink Calamine Lotion never completely drys and just makes a mess on clothes, sheets and towels. Mistake #5 I saw clear Calamine Lotion in a spray and lotion that I went back to the pharmacy to buy. Tip: Use a blow dryer with a cool air button to dry clear spray and lotions to get dressed. Heat aggravates the rash.

Day 5: I discover Zanfel exfoliating poison ivy, oak, sumac scrub at Walmart for $38 for a small tube. The pictures on the box sold me on the idea this might work. I had to consider the extortion pricing indicates it must work well. There are other exfoliating poison ivy, oak, or sumac sandy creams on the market for less than $10. I bought one but used Zanfel first. The basic idea is to exfoliate the infected area with some type of body scrub and cold water as soon as possible. Zanfel just has specific ingredients to stop the swelling and itching as well.

My opinion, Zanfel works well, especially on new small patches of the rash. It stopped a new small dime sized outbreak on my arm. It must of spread to my arm from scratching while asleep. However, the main rash area is now pretty bad and will just have to run its course.

The Zanfel scrub does make a big difference. It immediately stops the inflamed swelling and the itching subsides completely for several hours. The first day I used the product 3 times, second day 2 or 3 times, then a couple times a day until I used the tube up.

The second day is better after three treatments, third day better, and by the fourth day of use it was just a red patch with no itching. Fifth day it’s pink with an occasional itch-ping here or there where the affected area is touching something or warmed up.

Just a heads up for anyone else out there that gets into a patch of poison ivy, oak, or sumac. Treat it early with Zanfel to deactivate the urushiol poison oil by exfoliating the rash to stop it in it’s tracks. Then use a clear liquid spray Calamine for drying and itch relief. If you catch it and treat it quickly it won’t get bigger than the size of a dime or quarter.

Zanfel instructions are specific and only work if applied and rinsed correctly. I lost more time I believe (Mistake #6) by applying the cream scrub while in the shower with running water diluting the strength of the ingredients.

Here’s how to apply Zanfel correctly: Before you get into the shower wet both hands and apply a 1.5 inch stream of Zanfel cream in your palm (less won’t work) and rub into a sandy paste in two wet hands. This activates the ingredients. Then apply the sandy paste in a rubbing motion over the rash for a minimum of 3 minutes. THEN get in the shower and rinse and rub under cold water for another 3 minutes to thoroughly remove the culprit… the urushiol poison oil. Each tube has up to 15 treatments for an area the size of your hand.

The problem with gaining this experience is I probably won’t need it again, so I’m sharing it with you as a 5 minute refresher course in poison ivy, oak, and sumac.

Poison Ivy:

Any combination of 3 leaves should be suspicious. As a child poison ivy was more prevalent. I always looked for the thumb hand print looking leaf.

Poison Oak:

Any combination of 3 leaves should be suspicious. Notice the oak looking leaf on the right and the sumac looking leaf on the left. This means almost any 3 leaf combination plant should be dealt with as though it was poisonous.

Poison Sumac:

Those sumac berries mean this plant can show up anywhere when eaten by birds and deposited in your yard. There are 2 dozen poison bomb seeds in this image that may have been 24 new customers for Zanfel. What a great marketing strategy for Zanfel. An army of living drones dropping poison sumac seeds all across American suburbs.

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