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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mango sap reaction
« on: Today at 12:04:07 AM »During my undergrad years at Cal Poly, I was a budding field botanist. In a failed attempt to impress a girl during a field botany trip, I ended up getting covered in dormant poison oak sap. Keep in mind, during dormancy poison oak has no leaves and urushiol is something like 10X or more concentrated in the sap than on the leaves. Well later that night it went full systemic and I ran to CVS or Rite Aid, buying everything they had (Tecnu etc.). Of course it was too late, the urushiol had already chemically bonded to my skin. I went in to the college physician's office the next day and was received pamphlet on how to ID poison oak (ahh..........it was in the middle of winter. There's no ID for sticks, c'mon) and a full course of oral steroids. The steroids stopped the allergic reaction dead in its tracks. Once it goes systemic, there's not much you can do besides steroids or tough it out IMHO. Good luck man.If it's hard to breathe then it should be treated as an emergency, but they do sell epinephrine inhalers OTC which could be a reasonable short-term (until you get to the emergency room) remedy. It provides some of the symptom relief of a steroid, but the potency is marginal and you may get jittery.