A Familiar Itch... or Is It?

As I looked down at the red bumps on my right wrist this afternoon, my first thought was that I had been allergic to one of the products used on my skin at Aveda yesterday. After all, the upper body massage had definitely included my arms. But then why would it be on just one arm and not both?

Then it struck me that this is spring time, the time when the poison ivy in my lower yard starts to come out. I never ever go down into that part of the back yard in the spring, but it turns out that I don’t need to. The dogs bring it in on their coats. Or I throw Jake’s Kong for him, which I did just the other day, and the oil from the greening plants is transmitted to my skin.

It is true that that particular wrist is where the poison ivy inevitably first attacks my body. But it usually starts out as a couple of very itchy blisters and this is much more like a rash. It’s so weird that it is only on my right wrist.

I find it curious that certain people are allergic to poison ivy and it doesn’t phase others. The bad thing is that every time you get it, it gets progressively worse.

If it’s poison ivy, I will definitely know by tomorrow. It is unrelenting and may require steroids to get rid of it. I wonder if Deborah has any new ideas for treating it?

Any other ideas out there in the Blogosphere?