Can you identify poison ivy?
Here’s some useful tips about poison ivy.
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Can you identify poison ivy?
Here’s some useful tips about poison ivy.
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June 13, 2018
This is something one learns at boy scout camp.
June 13, 2018
LEAVES OF THREE LEAVE IT BE
June 13, 2018
Peter Lindelauf
Thanks for that. 🤗
June 13, 2018
I learned how to identify poison ivy, poison sumac, and poison oak when I was a kid. I think the article is useful (obviously) for those that don’t already know how poison ivy can look and grow differently depending on where it is.
June 13, 2018
Peter Lindelauf I’m lucky that it doesn’t really bother me. My dad sat on Toxicodendron diversilobum once. It didn’t go well.
June 13, 2018
I was taught this, but since I’m one of the 10% of the population that’s immune it’s never really stuck for me. My brother is also immune, we learned one camping trip that our cousin was not. My brother and I left the camp ground to play on the trails, my cousin was not allowed to leave line-of-site of the camp. We came back after a bit and started playing with our cousin, including some roughhousing. About 15 minutes later he was covered in hives and swelling up. We had somehow gotten the oils on us and transferred it to him.
I kinda know which ones are which, but I wouldn’t bet money on it.
June 13, 2018
I have to have been immune as a child, but I got my first case in my 40s so I’m much more careful now.
June 14, 2018
Growing up, me and my brother were both susceptible to poison ivy, while my youngest sister wasn’t, she’d rub it all over her arm to taunt us, joke was on her when one day she got a bad rash 😀
June 14, 2018
As for temporary (hours) relief from the itch
1) the discharge from the rash will not spread it
2)the itch is caused by your body releasing histamine
So take a hot shower, and stimulate (rub, don’t scratch) the rash, you’ll use up the local histamine content (or at least overload cell’s ability to process it;)
The end result being a respite from itching
June 14, 2018
Yeah, I learned about the hot shower trick and that was the most bizarre thing ever but it would work…for an hour or so, ha ha. Ugh. Awful three to four days 😛
June 14, 2018
Cindy Brown It makes a huge difference when trying to go to sleep !
June 14, 2018
Ray Bernache
Good advice. Didn’t know that. Thanks