Poison Ivy
By DianneN
@DianneN (254926)
United States
May 22, 2019 10:52am CST
Just thinking of it makes me itchy, but as often as I accidentally touched it pulling weeds, I never got a rash. Well, perhaps one tiny blister, but even then I’m not certain it was from poison ivy.
Our younger son just had a third of an acre cleared of dead ash trees, vines, and of course, loads of poison ivy. He is highly allergic to poison ivy, so I’m happy it’s gone.
Doodles the cat even turns away from it when he hears the reminder, “No big bad poison ivy!” At least he can roam freely there until we return to Connecticut in a mere two weeks!!! I’m so excited!
Are you allergic to anything? I’m allergic to any medication with CIPRO in it.
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42 responses
@TheHorse (238347)
• Walnut Creek, California
22 May 19
Here in California, we have poison oak. I believe the toxin is the same as in poison ivy. I DO get a reaction to it--an itchy spot that lasts about two weeks. The real danger is if someone burns poison oak. If you breathe the smoke, you can wind up with the toxin in your lungs.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
22 May 19
Eeek. As they say "Leave of 3, leave it be".
I'm allergic to cats 
, maple tree, elm trees, and certain of evergreen
, maple tree, elm trees, and certain of evergreen4 people like this
@DianneN (254926)
• United States
22 May 19
@FayeHazel The trees are there to stay, but.......Good idea for the cat allergy!
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
22 May 19
@DianneN Ah so true. My parents yard has all of those trees. Happily cat allergy isn't too bad, so I take some benadryl and lavender oil. :-)
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@Shellyann36 (11383)
• United States
22 May 19
If I even look at poison ivy I get a rash! I am also allergic to penicillin.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
23 May 19
I am allergic to some people and happy I can stay away from then easily.
Talking about Ivy we have the other kind that invades the garden if we are not careful but see what it has done to this pot
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
23 May 19
@DianneN The ivy you see on the pot is safe.
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
22 May 19
Definitely poison ivy but i can remember my grandmother boiling some kind of tree branches in water and it took the itch right away. Just can't remember what kind of tree branches it was!!
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
23 May 19
I am allergic to cats and I can only admire them from a distance. And I have a lot to suffer from dust allergy in a tropical country like India and so is my husband. Unfortunately we have passed it on to our children too.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
23 May 19
@arunima25 I’m sure it is awful. Are you up late or is it morning there?
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
23 May 19
@DianneN Yes it is tough especially in our country where we have a lots of construction going on and with all pollution and traffic. I wear a mask when out but that is suffocating in a hot weather.
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@rebelann (117259)
• El Paso, Texas
23 May 19
I have never seen poison ivy, probably that's a good thing, but we do have a ton of desert plants that have all kinds of tiny thorns that'll wriggle their way under the skin which I find totally irritating .... not that I'm allergic but still..........
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), I was so scared that I could not find it. my husband rushed me to the ER.
@Fleura (35069)
• United Kingdom
22 May 19
No, thankfully, not actually allergic to anything, but I have found that I seem to be rather sensitive to adrenaline/epinephrine. If the dentist gives me an injection containing this my whole face, from my forehead right down my neck, stays numb for the entire day which is really not very nice!
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
22 May 19
Me too, it only takes a little for me.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
22 May 19
Oh wow, you get poison ivy in your yards? Thus far I have not been allergic to anything . . . except this one time a couple years ago. I ate a sample of this Korean snack from a fellow mom . . . it was similar to a Japanese one but it had these nuts and things on it - but I didn't think anything of it except that I've never eaten it with those toppings. That night I got these weird welts on my arms - and then onto my body (but not my face!). I was told this was a food allergy of some kind - but I've never gotten it again.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
22 May 19
So glad it was a one time thing. You do not want a nut allergy. That happened to me once after having shrimp. I ran to the doctor, but by the time I got there, the welts disappeared, so they gave me an allergy test. No food allergies. I’ve been eating shrimp since and never had a problem. We both seem to have had fluke allergies thank goodness!
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@aninditasen (18198)
• Raurkela, India
23 May 19
I am allergic to heat as I get rashes when it is too hot.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
26 May 19
@aninditasen Thank you. I wouldn’t know where to find those items here.
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@aninditasen (18198)
• Raurkela, India
26 May 19
@DianneN Neem and sandle wood paste cures rashes.
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@LindaOHio (222623)
• United States
22 May 19
I had a bad reaction to a medication that I took for bronchitis. Other than that, no.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
22 May 19
@LindaOHio Make sure you never take it again or in any other form. Those meds build up in our bodies and our reactions to them are worse every time.
@LindaOHio (222623)
• United States
22 May 19
@DianneN Yup! Biaxin. It made me so sick.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
21 Dec 19
my son-in-law is hyper allergic to poison Ivy. touched it helping me clear the back fence, it had covered his arm by the next day!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
21 Dec 19
@DianneN it really is my poor son-in-law. Plus he was helping me so I felt 10 times worse!
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@LowRiderX (22901)
• Serbia
23 May 19
I'm not sure we have this plant, maybe we have, but it's called different. I was allergic to eggs until a few years ago. How much I love the eggs, I persistently ate them...For several years I have no skin rash
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@LowRiderX (22901)
• Serbia
25 May 19
@DianneN Yes, it's a miracle, but it's just gone. The allergy gave up as much as I persisted
Otherwise, believe it or not, I had that allergy ever since I was a child, but I always liked to eat the eggs.
Otherwise, believe it or not, I had that allergy ever since I was a child, but I always liked to eat the eggs.1 person likes this
