Re: poison oak ...jeez!
- To: loretta gerity jacobs
- Subject: Re: poison oak ...jeez!
- From: W* B*
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:03:57 -0800 (PST)
Hi Loretta,
You have my sympathy! Dogs and horses (and even smoke) can bring poison
oak into the house.
There is a good book about poison oak, poison ivy and poison sumac. The
author had done research, and talked with doctors at UCSF, etc. I can't
remember what remedies were suggested. The book is: NATURE'S REVENGE, by
Susan Carol Hauser, pub. by Lyons & Burford, ISBN: 1-55821-449-6, $13.95
(but I'm sure it's in the library).
When I had poison oak, the only thing to do was to crawl into a hole and
wait it out with a large injection of cortisone to help me.
With best wishes for a speedy recovery,
Elly Bade
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, loretta gerity jacobs wrote:
> 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
>
>
