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How do you take the itching and burning out of poison ivy or insect bites?

  1. DonnaCosmato profile image96
    DonnaCosmatoposted 5 years ago

    How do you take the itching and burning out of poison ivy or insect bites?

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    Emily Sparksposted 5 years ago

    I use Ivarest.....found in most grocery stores or Walmart.  It is the only thing I use.  It takes away the itch, soothes the burning, and eventually dries it up.  Hope this helps!

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    gramon1posted 5 years ago

    Calamine is very good for poison ivy and any other itch that comes with an infection.  Calamine has about 0.5 % Zink oxyde. Zink oxyde is a great anty-irritant and desinfectant.
    With bad bites, I apply first Solar Cayne, which is an anesthetic with aloe, and then I apply calamine. I also keep Zink oxyde and triple antibiotic cream in my first aids box.

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    Rabie-MDposted 5 years ago

    You can use any anti-histamine available in the market or those containing cortisone and applied locally over the site of itching.
    Anti-histamines prevents the itching action of histamine...
    And cortisone prevents further release of histamine which causes the itching, redness and the burning sensation.

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