poison ivy

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I definitely get it and very bad.  I have always had to get a prescription for prednisone.  I have a friend who was put in a wheel chair for life as a result of a reaction to the prednisone she was taking for poison ivy.  So the last time I was suddenly covered with open blisters I decided to try something different.  I took a vitamin 3 x the first day, an extra vitamin A and then I took 1000 mg of vitamin E very hour the first day.  Then one vitamin each day and vitamin E five times the second day and for the rest of the week.  It wasn't an immediate fix but did work and I was ok in about 1 1/2 weeks.  Just about as fast as if I had taken the prednisone.  I honestly don't know which is safer but I felt better taking the vitamin E

While living in Connecticut I got a very bad case of poison ivy. This was my first real bad case.   I had been to the dr and wasn't getting better but was still getting worse.  I was off work in a terrible mess of open blisters.  A friend called and when I told her I wasn't able to go out because of the severe case of poison ivy she came over to see just how bad it was.  She took one look at me wearing only my husband's long shirt with the sleeves cut out and said, I'll be back.  She went into town to her italian father-in-law's and returned with his secret medicine.  It was in several large wine jugs.  She poured them all in my bathtub and told me to get in, lay down and wallow around in this stuff as long as I could. Then she left.   I did as she said and was cured, that day.  All of the oozing blisters healed that fast.  When I asked what it was  she didn't know. She said it was his secret.  She said he had tried to get some medical attention, a patent, etc but no luck yet.  I was able to return to work the next day.  Whatever it was, it looked the color of wine but didn't smell like wine, didn't sting my open blisters and was miraculous. I didn't even have scars.   And I didn't drink it.

If I had been older and wiser I think I would have tried to help him market the stuff.

Carolyn