Cures For Poison Ivy
Cures for poison ivy rashes are available in many different methods. There are lots of things you can do to improve your situation.
Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Lots of Water
You need to stay healthy and by taking vitamins and drinking plenty of fluids your body will help fight off and cure the poison ivy rash. Take your vitamins. Drink lots of water. Vitamin C and E especially help with skin repair. No matter what else you do, give your body the raw materials it needs to do skin repair.
Hot Water / Hot Air
Some effective poison ivey cures are heat related, whether it is hot water or hot air. The heat actually will dry up the skin and accelerate the healing process. Using a blow dryer on the low setting, and blowing the warm air against the affected skin will help to dry out the damaged skin and eliminate it, along with the itching and burning. Taking a hot bath can provide the same benefits and relief. This can prevent the itching caused by the poison ivy rash for hours.
Oatmeal / Baking Soda
The reason you have this itchy rash is that the skin is full of white blood cells that are swarming, looking for victims. Your aim is to disperse them as quickly as possible, because you know there really is no threat to the system. It is a false alarm. So there are various methods in which you can hasten the drying process, to dry out those white blood cells. One is to take a bath in oatmeal or Aveeno. One is to make a baking soda and water paste and layer it on your body.
Clearasil / Salycilic Acid
Clearasil, the acne medicine, works in part by drying out the skin. Many acne medications have salycilic acid in them, which is also a drying agent. In essence salycilic acid is a beta hydroxy acid – it’s a very mild acid that helps your top layer of skin ‘loosen’ and slough off. Since that top layer has a lot of the rash on it, the more that you can help it fall off and let fresh, new skin below it grow, the more quickly the rash goes away.
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