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[QUOTE="Edward Sargent, post: 5047336, member: 912"]
Systemic herbicides do take time and you may have to give them several applications depending on weather.  The plant also has to be actively growing.  If you contact it wash with soap and water taking care to remove and wash rings watches etc.  The active agent is an oil - urushiol, and you need lots of soap to remove it.  One fallacy is that once the rash appears that if you touch pustules it it will spread.  The rash is the bodies immune system reacting to the oil - its contact dermatitis so where you contact the most you will get a stronger reaction sooner.  Also the oil is throughout the plant, stems, roots and leaves.  DO NOT burn it as noncombusted oil will deposit in your respiratory tract. It usually takes up to two weeks for the blisters to appear and about another two weeks for the blisters to subside. Cortisone cream and Benadryl help but do not fully stop the itching.  Last before you sprayed you might consider renting some goats,  Goats to Go!  They love poison ivy and are not allergic to it!
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