To be safe, wear long pants and a shirt with long sleeves, boots and gloves, to minimize the chance that you will accidentally be exposed to poison ivy.As a good poison ivy treatment, compresses with Burow’s solution (available without prescription) can help dry the ooze faster. Poison ivy symptoms are hard to miss. The telltale symptoms of redness, itching, swelling and blisters are easily spotted. The skin can become red as well as the rash shall be slightly bumpy and really itchy. You need to apply calamine lotion or have the person take an oatmeal bath.
During this time, it’s important to try to keep from scratching the blisters. Bacteria from under your fingernails can get into the blisters and cause an infection. After about a week, the blisters will start to dry up and the rash will start to go away.