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Post by Woody Williams on Jun 4, 2015 17:42:51 GMT -5
A good friend of mine got ate up by poison ivy and is now miserable.  |
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Post by jdaily on Jun 4, 2015 23:10:24 GMT -5
Funny, you bring this up. One of my employees told me a week and a half ago, he was not allergic to poison Ivy. Missed 2 days of work this week and has it in every place imaginable. And yes, there too! Now, every vine plant is poison ivy.  |
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Post by deadeer on Jun 5, 2015 0:29:33 GMT -5
It loves me too! I got it in my eye last year, made me look like a boxer. Now whenever I get it, it's a trip to the doc for a shot AND a predinisone (SPL?) script every time.
Jay
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Post by featherduster on Jun 5, 2015 6:49:04 GMT -5
I am not allergic to Poison Ivy never have been and I am still not and that's a fact, yesterday as I was mowing the woods I was pulling down with my bare hands Poison Ivy that was clinging to trees.
Now Poison Oak is another story.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jun 5, 2015 7:25:21 GMT -5
I've never got either one. I grab it bare handed to. If my friends start messing with me on the 3D course I'll pull their arrows and hand them back to them with a few poison ivy leaves stuck on the end.
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Post by 10point on Jun 5, 2015 7:47:28 GMT -5
It loves me too! I got it in my eye last year, made me look like a boxer. Now whenever I get it, it's a trip to the doc for a shot AND a predinisone (SPL?) script every time. Jay That's me right now! Just started prednisone this morning. |
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Post by 36fan on Jun 5, 2015 11:08:33 GMT -5
Funny, you bring this up. One of my employees told me a week and a half ago, he was not allergic to poison Ivy. Missed 2 days of work this week and has it in every place imaginable. And yes, there too! Now, every vine plant is poison ivy. LOL - worked with a guy that said he was immune to poison ivy. We had to tear down a fence that was covered with poison ivy. It was late Feb/early March and we were wearing Tyvek suits, nitrile gloves under work gloves, hard hats, and safety glasses. He ended up being covered with poison ivy. I inquired about him being immune, and he said he had never had it before. He was a city-boy, so I asked him if he had ever been exposed before. His reply was, "I've gone hiking on trails before". sigh.....  While I jest at his expense, he was a hard working good guy, and he would do anything you told him. |
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Post by Russ Koon on Jun 5, 2015 11:41:02 GMT -5
My dad was immune to poison ivy as a child, (MI farm boy, exposed plenty). Discovered that he had lost that immunity when he was about 40 and helped a guy change a tire when he had a flat and pulled over to find himself in a patch of it, then began itching like crazy by the time he got home. He had cleared plenty of it from fence rows and such as an adult, also, and knew what the plant was.
I was also immune as a younger person, and lost my immunity later in life than Dad. Mine lasted until I was in my 60's and we have lots of it growing in the backyard around our retaining walls. I still don't get it easily or have the terrible reactions that many do, but I have to use some caution now when pulling the vines and I wear work gloves and wash up immediately afterwards. Wearing the vines down now with repeated application of Ortho Poison Ivy and Oak killer. Seems to be pretty effective, but there are always some stragglers that I miss that show up the next year. Fewer each year, though.
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Post by squirrelhunter on Jun 5, 2015 12:33:52 GMT -5
I'm not really allergic to poison ivy or oak,I had 1 small patch 1 time of poison ivy as a kid and that's all I've ever gotten.
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Post by duff on Jun 5, 2015 20:23:39 GMT -5
I get it by looking at it. Getting better at avoiding it i guess.
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Post by parson on Jun 6, 2015 7:33:03 GMT -5
I have always been immune to it- but I don't tempt it! My wife has extreme reactions to.
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Post by pigeonflier on Jun 6, 2015 22:43:36 GMT -5
Man O man when I was a young squab,, I would get poison ivy just from looking at it!!! Every summer was a guarantee!! Now days I don't seem to get it as bad,, maybe every other year or so and not near as severe as back then. I already have it this year,, got it on my hand in between my fingers. Couple years ago I was doing a day trip down the river. I stopped at one of the islands at day-break on my way up river to pick up some folks. I hid a couple coolers full of lunch time supplies for later on that day. I grabbed all the weeds and brush I could gather right quick to try and hide the spoils. Wasn't really paying attention to what I was grabbing!!! YIKES!! To make matters worse,, first thing I did before getting back in the boat and making the rest of the 30 min run upstream was to stop for the all mighty time out potty break!! DOUBLE YIKES!! Needless to say the next week and a half was pretty miserable!!!
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Post by drs on Jun 7, 2015 4:18:52 GMT -5
I've never had a case of poison ivy in my life. Guess I am immune to poison ivy, but both my Sisters and Brother aren't immune to it. Got a Cousin, and she only has to look at it to get it
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Post by Sasquatch on Jun 7, 2015 6:06:11 GMT -5
My dad was immune to poison ivy as a child, (MI farm boy, exposed plenty). Discovered that he had lost that immunity when he was about 40 and helped a guy change a tire when he had a flat and pulled over to find himself in a patch of it, then began itching like crazy by the time he got home. He had cleared plenty of it from fence rows and such as an adult, also, and knew what the plant was. I was also immune as a younger person, and lost my immunity later in life than Dad. Mine lasted until I was in my 60's and we have lots of it growing in the backyard around our retaining walls. I still don't get it easily or have the terrible reactions that many do, but I have to use some caution now when pulling the vines and I wear work gloves and wash up immediately afterwards. Wearing the vines down now with repeated application of Ortho Poison Ivy and Oak killer. Seems to be pretty effective, but there are always some stragglers that I miss that show up the next year. Fewer each year, though. My hard working grandmother had no fear of it, pulling it with her bare hands when she weeded around the place. Then one day, in her eighties, she pulled some and it got her. As for me, I literally grew up in a woods, and have been in the bushes a lot since, and surely must have got into it some time or other. I don't remember any rashes. But then, mama always told me to leave vines alone, and I still won't just reach out and grab a plant unless I know what it is. |
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Post by 36fan on Jun 8, 2015 11:17:51 GMT -5
I'm am very tolerant to it, but I can get it. It typically takes about a week after I'm exposed to show up. Right now I've got a few spots on my hand that showed up a couple of days ago, but they're nearly gone already. I had to take down part of a fence last week, and new I was in it, I just forgot to wash up my hands with dish soap when I was done. (dish soap cuts through the oil)
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Post by swetz on Jul 26, 2015 9:43:25 GMT -5
Not to derail the thread, but I was down at my place yesterday and saw I have a lot of poison ivy vines starting to climb some of my trees. Given that's it in an area I want to build a house someday, I want to kill it off before it gets out of control.
I was going to (carefully) cut the vine near the base and spray the cut with glyphosate. Good or bad idea? Any better approach?
Thanks
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Post by duff on Jul 26, 2015 9:54:38 GMT -5
That works. I did it on some impressive vines and waited the folloing year to pull down the dry vines.
Birds love the berries so if you have good perching places you will have more poison ivy all the time. Stay vigilant :-)
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Post by nfalls116 on Jul 26, 2015 20:06:00 GMT -5
Got it when I was a kid quit getting it and now I avoid contact with it but do contact it every once in a while and haven't had a reaction lately to it ... The real killer for me is itch weed man o man is that terrible vicous stuff
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Post by featherduster on Jul 27, 2015 18:59:54 GMT -5
What is itch weed? do you mean nettles or thistle weed.
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Post by nfalls116 on Jul 27, 2015 19:51:17 GMT -5
What is itch weed? do you mean nettles or thistle weed. stinging nettle |
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