PSA - poison ivy

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 8:07 am

ok, a co-worker got into some of this nasty stuff... didnt know what it was. well he is paying for it now.

well, I got to thinking, may be others dont know what it is.

well here are a couple links.

the main site -> http://www.poison-ivy.org/
and some bad cases -> http://www.poison-ivy.org/rash/index.htm

so if you dont know what to look for, and are planning to head into the woods, hell even you back yard, read up.

Soliex · Post by **Soliex** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:12 am

Growing up near woods and having a very woody backyard i am very familiar with posin ivy, although i havent had a bad case of it some people can be immune to the stuff.

Amy · Post by **Amy** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:05 pm

I also grew up in the woods (quite literally- the house was surrounded by woods). I can remember fixing fence while growing up, and inevitably my father always had to go to the doc the next day for prednisone. I only had to do that once or twice. Poison Oak is just as bad as poison ivy, IMO. It's 5 leaf, though, and the rash is usually different. A lot of bumps in a line (or several lines) is characteristic of ivy, and the bumps just in a chaotic rash is more characteristic of oak (at least, in the beginning stages of the rash development). Granted, some people react differently, so that is just general terms. I tell you, though...I never let it get as bad as some of those pictures before I was running to the doctor!!

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:51 pm

never have got it (knocks on fake wood desk) been around plenty of it on the farm and when hunting.

Amy · Post by **Amy** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:27 pm

some people (like my mom) are simply immune to it.....Oh, to be so lucky...

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:35 pm

as far as i know im immune, i grew up in the woods and spent most of my time there and never got it so... hard to say. I never avoided it never really thought about it.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 4:24 pm

I've never had it either and was raised in the mountains of Colorado, don't even know if they even have it there. And now I live way out in the back woods of Missouri and I'm out cutting trees and clearing my property all the time and I"m still poison ivy and poison oak free............

NAiLs · Post by **NAiLs** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 2:50 am

I had Poison Ivy a couple times. The first time I didn't know what it was, and I was only like what, 7? Yea, didn't know much about that crap. So one morning I woke up and it was all over my legs and arms. It got on more of my body due to my ignorance of scratching and not washing my hands!!

My brother ended up getting it too. Unsure how, maybe by touching me before the rash actually developed or touched my clothes that was covered in the oil?

The second time I got it, I knew what the hell it actually was and what to do and not to do. I believe this time around it was only on a small spot of my arm and gone fast.

Poison Oak isn't five leaves, it's actually three also. They look just like an oak leaf, in bundles of three.

Image of a fall Poison Oak leaf.

Trevor · Post by **Trevor** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 9:11 pm

mmm... Poison Ivy

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 11:21 pm

a good way to get back at someone you really don't like is to extract the oil and place it on their clothing somewhere while they're not looking; you laugh and feel pity for that person at the same time, lol (I'm a sick sick man!!!

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infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 12:07 am

or dry it out crush it up and put it in a little baggy and give it to them.

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 12:21 pm

infinitevalence wrote:or dry it out crush it up and put it in a little baggy and give it to them.

rofl, it's even funnier if the person you're giving it to is a pothead, heheh

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 1:54 pm

thats exactly what i was implying. Dont really do it though because it could kill some one. Poison ivy inhelation is a nasty nasty thing.

Soliex · Post by **Soliex** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 2:52 pm

probobally a rash in your lungs, imagine that!

Amy · Post by **Amy** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 4:51 pm

I was mistaken, sorry...3 leaves..

One way to avoid getting the rash (works, I promise) is to rub your body down in rubbing alcohol after the exposure.

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 6:38 pm

yeah, it would severely irritate the mucuous membranes in your lungs, causing lung problems leading up to things like bronchitis, and even pleuresy, where the fluid in the membrane between the lungs can build up due to the irritation. Not a pretty thing indeed.

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 6:47 pm

ummmm, yeah, Poison Ivy = BAD!!!
I live in northern Michigan and the stuff is all over the place. I've had it numerous times since I was a child and it is no fun. The worst time I had it (I kid you not) a "friend" of mine (who, shall we say, is no longer my friend), decided it would be funny to throw a plant at me. Well, needless to say, it hit me in right in the face and I got it in my eye. Yeah, my FREAKIN' EYE! It was so terrible I can't even begin to explain the torture I went through for that week and a half.