I don't know if any of you remember a while ago I asked advice on how to invite fueding family members to a 60th birthday party for my mom. I did invite them all (about 50) and had 30 people come. I am just exhausted from the whole weekend. The party was an open house yesterday from 2 to 6:30. Yes I picked the hottest day of the year - 99 degrees in the shade. I made way too much chicken salad but that's OK. Nobody really fought (just a few avoiding each other). I think everyone had a good time. But I have a question (don't laugh either). I have poison ivy around my tree in the back and along the fenceline by the woods. The weeds around the tree had not been trimmed. The kids were running around back there playing hide and seek sometimes with shoes sometimes without. Then they'd be running around in the house. Should I be really worried about if they tracked the stuff onto my carpet or my furniture? I am so paranoid about it that I can't relax.
Party success but have a concern
- Thread starter KimDW
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Imafitnessfreak
Cathlete
Would spraying Lysol on the carpet and upholstry work??? Very interesting...
Sunshine 1528
Cathlete
It seems that we are always told if we have contacted poison oak or poison ivy to wash in warm soapy water.
Do you think cleaning the carpet and furniture with hot water and a standard carpet cleaner would work? I would bet that the carpet cleaner would be just as strong or stronger than the soap we tend to use.
Good luck !;-)
Do you think cleaning the carpet and furniture with hot water and a standard carpet cleaner would work? I would bet that the carpet cleaner would be just as strong or stronger than the soap we tend to use.
Good luck !;-)
kathryn
Cathlete
Poison ivy is my nemesis! I hate it (and it hates me!: I have a systemic allergic reaction to it when I get in contact with it, and for the past two years, have had to go on prednisone twice a year to help combat my body's overreaction to it).
The oil (urushiol) can be washed out of fabrics with just warm water and soap, so shampooing the rug/furniture should work. If it got on any hard surfaces, then using something like Technu outdoor skin cleanser (which I have bought in bulk from www.dermastore.com , I think) will neutralize and remove the oils.
I would be more concerned about the kids themselves having been exposed to the poison ivy and gotten it on their clothes, and then on themselves, or on their bare feet (why in the world were they running around by the poison ivy anyway?)
I think maybe the ivy to shoe to carpet transfer is a long shot, but I'm not sure.
The oil (urushiol) can be washed out of fabrics with just warm water and soap, so shampooing the rug/furniture should work. If it got on any hard surfaces, then using something like Technu outdoor skin cleanser (which I have bought in bulk from www.dermastore.com , I think) will neutralize and remove the oils.
I would be more concerned about the kids themselves having been exposed to the poison ivy and gotten it on their clothes, and then on themselves, or on their bare feet (why in the world were they running around by the poison ivy anyway?)
I think maybe the ivy to shoe to carpet transfer is a long shot, but I'm not sure.
acatalina
Cathlete
Don't know , but when i have come in contact i get the clorox out on my arms legs what ever.
I had it once on the legs and it was spreading up my butt.
Never gonna do that again .
Oh, and my doc thought it was funny...
Anne
http://www.picturetrail.com/acatalina
I had it once on the legs and it was spreading up my butt.
Never gonna do that again .
Oh, and my doc thought it was funny...
Anne
http://www.picturetrail.com/acatalina