Coming from mibasshunters question, who has ever gotten a bad case of poisin ivy?
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Coming from mibasshunters question, who has ever gotten a bad case of poisin ivy?
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My mother had a bad case a few years back that was blistering on both arms. Each blister was about the size of jelly beans. She had it for weeks. Towrad the end of the summer, one the first day of school, I got it while helping a friend set up a stand. Mine was just as bad. Both arms were wrapped up for a month, and my arms looked gross. We tried every product under the sun, we both needed antibiotics. I still have scars. To all of those who say it doesn't bother, I said the same thing, but once its in your bloodstream, you have it bad.
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How bad your reaction to poisin ivy is depends on how allergic you are and the site of your exposer. Eyes are bad. I have had men work for me that can weed it out like any other plant. I did have one that had it so bad he had to be hospitalized. One thing you have to be careful of is burning it and inhaling the smoke.
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I am very allergic to it. Or I used to be. Now it is almost like I have built up an immunity or just don't notice it because I have had it so much. I have it at least 10 months out of the year though. I have learned a trick though. If you wash the areas that you have poison ivy in dawn, it dries it out and makes it heal faster.
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As a teenager, I worked for an auctioneer. We were selling a barn full of antique furniture. The auctioneer had a local farmer brush hog the field in back of the barn for parking. Apparently the field was full of poison ivy that was shredded into a fine mist of oil that coated the entire field.
We all got it pretty bad. One of the kids I worked with ended up going to the ER and doctor a couple of times.
If you attended an antique auction near Berkley Springs, WV in the early 80's and got a terrible case of poison ivy, sorry. That's one field that shouldn't have been mowed for parking.
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My older brother cut a large fuzzy vine that had a one inch diameter. He didn’t know it but the vine was poison oak and as he was climbing up the tree in his climber tree stand. Every three feet he would cut that poison oak vine, again. He said he cut that poison oak above him at least five times and all the particles floated down on top of him.
The next day my brother was scratching so hard his skin was bleeding. He was going insane. His wife drove over to my house and I gave her my medicine from the Dermatologist. He learned his lesson the hard way.
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