Poison Ivy

[The Kizzy]

Great, now I have poison ivy all over, including places I shouldnt

[Zanchief]

Stop having sex with shrubs.

[Martrae]

I've never gotten poison ivy and I've taken MANY a woodland tromp.

[Harrison]

Stop having sex with shrubs.

[The Kizzy]

I know, right?

[Harrison]

I thought it said "Stop having sex with scrubs"

I had a late 90's flashback.

[The Kizzy]

The back of my knee is on FIRE, Im trying not to scratch it

[Harrison]

Cold compress?

[The Kizzy]

That works until you take it off, then it is just as bad as before. Plus I'm at work.

[Narrock]

Try the Neosporin that has the pain reliever in it.

[Gaazy]

go to a in and out clinic and get the shot. Cleared up in a day max

[Captain Insano]

Do meth. It takes all the pains away.

[Yamori]

Drinking Draino cures poisy ivy itches, scurvy, the hiccups, and the deadly HIV virus

[Harrison]

Cure of course means kill.

[Hylissa]

Thanks for clearing that up~

[Phlegm]

Cortaid make a over the counter poison ivy treatment kit. You can pick one up at your local drug store.

[Drem]

yuck getting PI in your joints like inside elbow, behind knees, etc., really really sucks

[Arlos]

We don't have poison ivy out here much. Out here it's all Poison Oak, but we have lots of it. That said, I think I'm in the "immune" crowd pretty much. Gone on many a woodlands hike, never gotten it. My mom was immune too for a big chunk of her life, til she happened to sit in a big patch while she had a cut on her leg.

-Arlos

[Phlegm]

From Associated Press:

WASHINGTON - Another reason to worry about global warming: more and itchier poison ivy.

The noxious vine grows faster and bigger as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rise, researchers report Monday.

And a CO2-driven vine also produces more of its rash-causing chemical, urushiol, conclude experiments conducted in a forest at Duke University where scientists increased carbon-dioxide levels to those expected in 2050.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas — a chemical that traps heat similar to the way a greenhouse does — that’s considered a major contributor to global warming. Greenhouse gases have been steadily increasing in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.

Poison ivy is common in woods around the country, making it a bane of hikers, campers, fighters of forest fires, even backyard gardeners. Its itchy, sometimes blistering rash is one of the most widely reported ailments to poison-control centers, with more than 350,000 reported cases a year.

Compared to poison ivy grown in usual atmospheric conditions, those exposed to the extra-high carbon dioxide grew about three times larger — and produced more allergenic form of urushiol, scientists from Duke and Harvard University reported.

Their study appears in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“The fertilization effect of rising CO2 on poison ivy ... and the shift toward a more allergenic form of urushiol have important implications for the future health of both humans and forests,â€

[Insanityfair]

I used to get it all the time, haven't in a long time, but I make sure to wash the kids and the dog after they've been near/in wooded areas and wash their clothes. I'd hate for them to go through what I did as a kid.