The "Combined" Poison Oak Thread :-)

mtnbikej said:
One thing to remember..... @Luis just said above about using his bike as a shield to push through it......

The oils from PO will stick to your bike, your shoes, you helmet, your pack.

Be sure to clean all these items if you think you have been exposed to it. Nothing worse than going nowhere near for a while, yet getting a breakout because you were leaning over your bike working on it.
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Thanks J
Forgot to mention that as well. Wash or wipe your bike down :thumbsup:
 
This is a great thread... I think we had one similar a while back, but it sparks the idea of a thread for hostile plants since there are several. Should we let this one run its course and start an Evil Plants Thread? More of a pictorial/description thread?
 
I've never been "got" by poison oak, ivy, or poodle dog when I know I should have been. One time up on Straberry Peak, Red Box to Switzer was inundated with Poodle Dog. We picked and chose and rerouted until we just got tired of it. I don't know about the others, but I just started plowing through it. My bars and gloves were soaked with P-Dawg juice.
I worried for like two weeks............. nothing!

On another Strawberry ride we dove into the Gabrielino Trail and it was smothered with Poison Oak. I was terrified! I knew I had multiple moments of contact, still, nothing. I'm not prepared to test my theory, but I think I might be immune to such flora.

Come to think of it, both those rides were led by @rossage! Hmmmmmm..... it's all making sense now. :sneaky:
 
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Mikie said:
I've never been "got" by poison oak, ivy, or poodle dog when I know I should have been. One time up on Straberry Peak, Red Box to Switzer was inundated with Poodle Dog. We picked and chose and rerouted until we just got tired of it. I don't know about the others, but I just started plowing through it. My bars and gloves were soaked with P-Dawg juice.
I worried for like two weeks............. nothing!

On another Strawberry ride we dove into the Gabrielino Trail and it was smothered with Poison Oak. I was terrified! I knew I had multiple moments of contact, still, nothing. I'm not prepared to test my theory, but I think I might be immune to such flora.

Come to think of it, both those rides were led by @rossage! Hmmmmmm..... it's all making sense now. :sneaky:
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Lucky dog, apparently you are not allergic.
 
Let's get this thread going again (sorry Mikie).

I now understand how to be proactive where my skin is concerned. In truth, I already knew this stuff but I am lazy about being responsible where becoming infected is concerned.

So, let's talk about decontaminating our riding attire/clothing/and wash clothes. Once I am infected, I wash all of my suspected infected items in a cold wash with detergent and color safe bleach. Is that enough??? I using rubbing alcohol on my riding shoes, too.

How do you guys disinfect everything?
 
I got P.O. bad once on my leg after a ride in the San Gabes. Was too tired to take a shower after the ride and went to sleep. Woke up late the next morning and went to work dirty. About week later my leg started to itch and swell up. Treated it with all the usual remedies but too late. I checked with the internet doctor and found out there is really nothing you can do , just let it run it's course. Continued to swell up for like 3 weeks. My leg was more than double its regular size. Then almost overnight the swelling went down. Normal again. Lesson learned, take a shower after riding the Gabes or other P.O. filled trails.
 
I am highly sensitive to Poison Oak. It really sucks when I get exposed to it and useually results in several transfer outbreaks and weeks of irritated skin.

A few years back a friend took me "hiking" through a bunch of PO up and down the banks of trabucco creek. I was wearing shorts he was in pants. I did not know I had been exposed and I was not paying attention and he never told me to beware and I never asked or even thought I was rubbing against PO most of the day.

The next morning I went surfing at trestles at dawn. While crossing the river mouth on the beach we past through a swarm of hungry mosquitos and I was bitten everywear including my legs. I am kind of allergic to mosquito bites and swell up. Keep in mind I did not know I had poison oak yet.

The next few days I was really itching a lot and did everything I could to treat the bites. That week I was wearing my MTB skin guards, and could not figure out why my mosquito bites were getting worse. 2 weeks latter the bite locations were getting better, but the pattern of irritation on my left leg was moving around and duplicated in several places on my legs. Funny. So my PO infection had been picked up by my MTB skin guards and now appeared in same pattern but moved around a few times.

Off to the doctors on the 3rd week of torture. "You have poison oak" what?
 
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Ok so this is....poison oak?
 
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