Exposure to poison ivy can result in a severe rash. While the rash may subside without treatment, home remedies, such as cold compresses or calamine, can help treat the rash and manage other symptoms.

Poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac contain urushiol, an oily sap that can trigger contact dermatitis with an itchy rash and blisters. You are not born sensitive to urushiol, but you can become ...

Shingles and poison ivy can both cause itchy, blistering rashes. Shingles often also causes burning, nerve pain, fever, chills, headaches, fatigue, or weakness. Shingles is a varicella-zoster virus ...

A patient recently came into our dermatology clinic with a rash and a story similar to many others. He had been camping with friends a few days earlier and helped carry some logs to stoke the fire.

Gardeners and hikers beware: Poison ivy may look like an unassuming plant, but it's one you're going to want to be able to identify before you wind up with an uncomfortable rash. If you do come home ...

Both shingles and poison ivy cause a painful, blistering rash. Poison ivy is an allergic reaction, while shingles is a viral infection. Shingles also causes additional symptoms that can differentiate ...