Poison ivy

[b116757]

I deal with the crazy poison ivy also

 

[PatinPA]

Be careful, as poison ivy immunity can go away and one's sensitivity can change. I am fairly sensitive to poison ivy, but my wife WAS like you, it had virtually no affect on her...until last week. She was cleaning PI from the fence line, as she does every year. However, this year different. For the past 10 days she has had a miserable rash.

Here is a quote from Healthline Medical Journal:

Remember, everyone has the potential to react to urushiol. While some people are less sensitive to it than others, increased exposures can eventually cause them to have a reaction.

My recommendation: Treat PI carefully, wear gloves, don't re-wear cloths or gloves before washing and wash areas potentially in contact with PH with lots of soap and water.

We have a couple of acres of PI along with large PI vines on our property. It is a challenges to eradicate, but we are making progress.

I never got it until I was 24. I could roll around in it as a kid and never get it. When I was 24 I was putting up a tree stand and the tree had a vine around it. I thought nothing of it but woke up the next morning with poison lines across my arms from it. That was when I found out that your sensitivity can change. I still don't get it bad. At most I'll get a few bumps.

 

[hunts_with_stick]

I don’t get poison ivy very easy, maybe every few years I get a small line of it in my wrist or face but not enough to ever be a problem. My youngest son and wife get it really easy so have to be careful, they even get it from cross transference from the dog I think if she ran through it.

On the back side of one of our orchards we have some crazy poison ivy. It gets a couple feet tall or more, throws berries and almost looks like little poison ivy trees in spots with little wood trunks.
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No thanks!!

 

[356]

My wife is on week two of a bad "first case." She has been miserable. I agree, "No thanks!"

 

[Tap]

Pi is very nasty. It will kill the tree if it grows up it. Cut the root at the base and watch it wither and die above. Spray brush killer concentrate on to the stump roots.

Just be careful of which herbicide you are using because if it's soil active, it just might kill any trees within several feet of where you treated the ivy.

 

[Tap]

Not poison ivy. Poison ivy doesn't have opposing leaves like that. Do you have poison sumac in your area?

There is some PI in his photo. And there is another vine in the pic which you referred. That other one might be bittersweet?

 

[hunts_with_stick]

there seems to be more poison ivy the older I get? The property I bought had a hay field in the front. It had poison ivy growing in it! I do my best to try and eliminate it. I’ve looked at other properties that was just covered in pi. I will would have bought it, but it would have taken a lot of time to go in there and eliminate it…..

 

[Tap]

Be careful, as poison ivy immunity can go away and one's sensitivity can change. I am fairly sensitive to poison ivy, but my wife WAS like you, it had virtually no affect on her...until last week. She was cleaning PI from the fence line, as she does every year. However, this year different. For the past 10 days she has had a miserable rash.

Here is a quote from Healthline Medical Journal:

Remember, everyone has the potential to react to urushiol. While some people are less sensitive to it than others, increased exposures can eventually cause them to have a reaction.

My recommendation: Treat PI carefully, wear gloves, don't re-wear cloths or gloves before washing and wash areas potentially in contact with PH with lots of soap and water.

We have a couple of acres of PI along with large PI vines on our property. It is a challenges to eradicate, but we are making progress.

Definitely!
I used to work with a guy who made fun of me when I would get the rash. He'd boast "Haha, I don't get PI". I'd tell him "you mean you haven't gotten it YET", and he's scoff. He hit his 50s and now he's allergic. (I try not to laugh at him!)

 

[omicron1792]

Aminopyralid plus triclopyr. Bye bye ivy. Will also protect some grasses.

 

[MadMadHoosier]

Definitely!
I used to work with a guy who made fun of me when I would get the rash. He'd boast "Haha, I don't get PI". I'd tell him "you mean you haven't gotten it YET", and he's scoff. He hit his 50s and now he's allergic. (I try not to laugh at him!)

I’m going to knock on wood big time saying this. As a kid, I was SOOO allergic to PI, we used to joke that I would get it just looking at it. Not sure if it is a built up immunity from so many bad cases, so many times, but I’ve not had it since I turned 50ish. (63 now). And this is with lots of exposure on trails, tree stands, bush hogging, etc. I know I’ve come in contact. The couple times I thought oh heck, I’ve got PI on my waist, it turned out to be chiggers. Anyway, hope the allergy never returns!!!

 

[Tap]

I’m going to knock on wood big time saying this. As a kid, I was SOOO allergic to PI, we used to joke that I would get it just looking at it. Not sure if it is a built up immunity from so many bad cases, so many times, but I’ve not had it since I turned 50ish. (63 now). And this is with lots of exposure on trails, tree stands, bush hogging, etc. I know I’ve come in contact. The couple times I thought oh heck, I’ve got PI on my waist, it turned out to be chiggers. Anyway, hope the allergy never returns!!!

Ain't it nice that the level of your sensitivity went in the right direction?! I'm a little bit that way too I think. I don't get it nearly as bad as I used to and my property, and surrounding woods are loaded with major PI vines and patches, plus I am in it all of the time.
I will say however that I am very aware to wash asap and handle tools and clothing carefully after I've been in the crap.
And I realize that there are lots of home remedies and products to treat it, but I'm absolutely convinced that Dawn dish detergent is as good as it gets. I wash with it after exposure and if I somehow miss a spot, or if I handle something with urushiol on it and get a rash, Dawn is a great ointment. Just rub it into the rash and (for me) it's gone in a day.

 

[OakSeeds]

It might be the fact that the agent provoking a dermatological reaction (rash/bumps) is an oil and we all know how dawn cleans oil off a duck (commercial). One thing you don't ever want to do is ... swim in a creek/lake/river - where the water is high from recent rains - and where poison ivy has been growing on trees/bushes/in the open along the bank. Oil floats on water; you can easily get a nice coating if you submerge any part of your body and come up where the oil is on the water. Ain't been there, ain't done it, and I ain't going there.

 

[GMan5465]

I’ve got a lot of poison ivy on the property, and subsequently got nailed quite a few times. This year, one mild case, my own fault. Anytime I plan to get into the woods to work, I wear long sleeve shirts. In the summer, I use those spf fishing shirts, a little cooler. When I come in for lunch, I always wash up with dawn soap. Don‘t just wash with your hands, use a wash cloth and scrub. Think about grease on your hands, without a wash cloth, it’s hard to get off. Once done washing, wash cloth goes in the wash pile. I wash those and my clothes with a good mechanics degreasing laundry scope. Yep, a little anal about it all! If I start to feel any itching later on, I scrub again with wash cloth and dawn. In the event I get a rash, the one thing that helps me is Jewelweed salve. I buy a product on Amazon called HIS MAJESTYS JEWELWEED SALVE.

 

[Knehrke]

I always Technu myself and scrub with abrasive cloth, which works even with Dawn detergent, but somehow in August I got a big patch right behind my knee. No clue, since I was wearing brush pants and they're not contaminated. Anyway, it made for an interesting flyfishing trip to Wyoming.

 

[Catscratch]

Used to get it as a kid real bad. Had to go to the hospital a few times with it. Don't seem to be real sensitive to it now (knock on wood). At a very young age I developed some habits of always washing my hands well after being in PI, and even changing clothes and shoes after exposure and for certain never touching my skin with bare hands after being in the river bottoms. I still do a lot of that today just out of habit. I hated getting it between my fingers, toes, and on eyes to the point of needing shots. Probably why I still have those habits.

I'm just as sensitive to chigger and tick bites as ever!

 

[b116757]

Used to get it as a kid real bad. Had to go to the hospital a few times with it. Don't seem to be real sensitive to it now (knock on wood). At a very young age I developed some habits of always washing my hands well after being in PI, and even changing clothes and shoes after exposure and for certain never touching my skin with bare hands after being in the river bottoms. I still do a lot of that today just out of habit. I hated getting it between my fingers, toes, and on eyes to the point of needing shots. Probably why I still have those habits.

I'm just as sensitive to chigger and tick bites as ever!

I think for a lot of us the incidents become much less frequent with age because we learn to recognize it and avoid it as we get older.