Ivy

I have been known to get a rash from the stem in the winter...of course I am getting a rash looking at that picture....

rberry5886, post: 448151, member: 232 wrote: I have been known to get a rash from the stem in the winter...of course I am getting a rash looking at that picture....

That's what I'm thinking too, from what I read either the leaf becomes dormant or it doesn't, but the stem always has the oil ready to attack.

That vile weed will get you in all seasons and all forms. Even dead plants, leaves, etc contain the oil and will get you. Lastly, don't ever think of burning it, anyone downwind will be in danger.

The active irritant stays active!

The caution is tool handles, shoe tops, anything, long after can still cause rash. Dead plants still a an exposure hazard.

Even burning lawn and garden debris with ivy leaves doesn't eliminate the irushiol.

I believe that the most oil is on the leaves when they are red and shiny.

Kind of like your picture 🙁

I got the second-worst case of my life after digging for a monument in an area that had been bulldozed clean, right down to what appeared to be bare earth. I guess a lot of the leaf litter had gotten mixed in with the loose soil layer, and I was on my hands and knees digging through it. 3 days later I was on Predinsone.

John Evers, post: 448156, member: 467 wrote: I believe that the most oil is on the leaves when they are red and shiny.

Kind of like your picture 🙁

Or when it's as green as grass. Or dead and brown.

Ivy is always active as long as it exists.
Never inhale the smoke if you burn a patch or pile of it, that will get it inside your lungs.
When exposed to it, wash yourself, your clothes and everything with soap and water or the same materials will expose you over and over.
Take maximum dosage of some form of antihistamine and/or allergy relief such as benedryl or generic A.S.A.P.
If it starts to spread quickly call your doctor and ask them to prescribe you a 5day allergy pack.

I started surveying full time in June 1969 and was in the field till 1987. Sometime in the early 70's when I had bad case of poison ivy my party chief said, "Don't worry you will become immune to it." It took to the late 70's but he was right. During the 80's I could walk through it with no shirt on and pull it out with my hands and never got it.

Floyd Carrington, post: 448169, member: 474 wrote: "Don't worry you will become immune to it."

I've been waiting about 60 years to become immune to it. I must be getting close, right?

I used to get poison ivy on top of my foot. I finally learned to keep my socks on when I got home. The socks kept it from transferring from the leg of my jeans to my foot. When I took my pants of, then my socks came off.

James

Jim Frame, post: 448174, member: 10 wrote: I've been waiting about 60 years to become immune to it. I must be getting close, right?

I've had it so many times, I was hoping I got immune cause I've managed to avoid a rash for quite a while even though I'm around it. This summer showed I not immune.

I developed an immunity over the years. When I started surveying I would break out in a rash just by looking at it, the worst is between the fingers. But now I can grab it, hold it walk all through the ivy and never get a spot.

I get a spot of it about 1x a yr.
Black scab over.
Then, i scratch it off, and I'm good for another yr.
Now, the ticks? I came home last wk, with over 100 dug in....
I think they were females. That's what i told my wife anyway!
I know a surveyor who has to take drugs, to work in ivy.
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I've been surveying since I was a kid. I've never had a case of poison Ivy. I'm not gonna push it though. If I see it I try and stay away.

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Ron Lang, post: 448177, member: 6445 wrote: the worst is between the fingers

I can top that.

Jim Frame, post: 448186, member: 10 wrote: I can top that.

They say "Pictures or it didn't happen" but in this case I think we'd rather you didn't. :D:D

Stephen Ward, post: 448188, member: 1206 wrote: They say "Pictures or it didn't happen" but in this case I think we'd rather you didn't. :D:D

I was thinking the same thing, although Uncle Paden could probably whip up a GOOD story about just how it MAY have happened.

😎

How it happened.

I've got 2 half sisters. They were sorta raised liberal by their dad. They were several yrs older than me, and my brothers. I'm the middle of 3 boys. They went to nefarious activities, that we were not allowed to participate in. We even heard stories of nudist colonies, and roach clips. Basic California hippy activities, in the 1970's. Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Foreigner. Zappa
Well, my sisters believed in the idea that "there is nothing evil, and maybe satan is just misunderstood."
They would visit grandma in Chicago for 6 wks. They were green, from chlorine, in a pool. Then come visit us in Oakhurst Coarsegold area, in California.
We had horses, goats, (herd of 60).
A few dogs. And cats. These poor sisters of mine, who believed in "nothing is evil" then went to the bushes. Did their business. And wiped with poisen ivy leaves. They had met the devil!
It was one of their 1st introductions to pure EVIL. All the playing with horses, putting clothes on goats, and riding bicycles ceased.
They had now "met the devil".
We went around them, eating poisen oak leaves, and berries. They screamed at us. "Keep back".
O well. Maybe eating berries helped us.
I don't know. It's what we learned from our dad.
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