Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 9:57 am
Great, now I have poison ivy all over, including places I shouldnt
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:05 am
Stop having sex with shrubs.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:06 am
I've never gotten poison ivy and I've taken MANY a woodland tromp.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:35 am
Zanchief wrote:Stop having sex with shrubs.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:40 am
I know, right? 
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:42 am
I thought it said "Stop having sex with scrubs"
I had a late 90's flashback.
I had a late 90's flashback.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:44 am
The back of my knee is on FIRE, Im trying not to scratch it
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:46 am
Cold compress?
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:47 am
That works until you take it off, then it is just as bad as before. Plus I'm at work.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:49 am
Try the Neosporin that has the pain reliever in it.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 2:37 pm
go to a in and out clinic and get the shot. Cleared up in a day max
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 3:44 pm
Do meth. It takes all the pains away.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 7:04 pm
Drinking Draino cures poisy ivy itches, scurvy, the hiccups, and the deadly HIV virus
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 7:07 pm
Cure of course means kill.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:09 pm
Thanks for clearing that up~
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:11 pm
Cortaid make a over the counter poison ivy treatment kit. You can pick one up at your local drug store.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:58 pm
yuck getting PI in your joints like inside elbow, behind knees, etc., really really sucks
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 1:21 am
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
-Arlos
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 11:15 am
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€
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€
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 11:20 am
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.