Poison ivy/oak?

I get very severe PI. Have had to have cortisone shots twice because I'm so allergic. This is my treatment for if it starts to weep:
Rub the area with rubbing alcohol to help dry it out. Do this a couple times a day, not too often though or it will dry the skin out too much and itch even more. I usually do it morn before work, afternoon after work, and before bed. After wiping down with rubbing alcohol, wrap in clean, dry gauze. Then I usually wrap this up with an ace bandage or a sock with the toe cut off. This is gross, but here's why it works (for me at least): the pus, ooze whatever ya want to call it, forms a crust in the gauze, but doesn't keep breaking open and oozing which itches like the dickens. It keeps it clean and dry. Not the most natural, but it works for me even with my worst PI. And trust me, I have a lot of experience. I have been in landscaping for the last seven years and I usually stop counting the number of times I get PI each year when it hits about a dozen. Oh yeah, and when removing the gauze, they'll want to run warm water over it to soften up the crustiness.