poison oak ...jeez!

Dear favorite garden heads,
I have the true gardening battle scars, a nasty case of poison
oak, right along the glove-line at my wrist, and on up, and
across my neck. I was doing some over the fence pruning, trying
to get a little more light, and must have tangled with some. Or
else my  dog carried it in. In any case, I itch, I howl, I roar
in the night with itch madness. well, sorta...
I am sure there are many folks with remedies, traditional and
not, that can give much needed advise. So far I've used
Cortisone, and a nice, but seemingly ineffective remedy called
Calmoseptine. Mostly calamine, with lanolin, thymus. zinc,
menthol, phenol. Should do the job, right?

So, please, send me your recipes, and potions, and help!
your humble fairfax fan
loretta
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