Eating poison ivy

JAVO · 03-31-2008, 09:00 PM

Has anyone ever tried the technique of gradually consuming larger poison ivy leaves to "innoculate" themselves against a skin reaction to it?

Or do you know anyone who has and lived to tell about it?

Protecting Against Poison Ivy

Beat · 03-31-2008, 09:24 PM

I just stay away. hah...

whatever · 03-31-2008, 09:53 PM

I have never gotten poison ivy- even if I pulled it out of the yard with my bare hands! I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't KILL you though- our sheep used to eat it sometimes and didn't die!

JAVO · 03-31-2008, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBeatGoesOn

I just stay away. hah...

But how do you stay away from it when there are no leaves or in the dark?

hah

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Originally Posted by whatever

I have never gotten poison ivy- even if I pulled it out of the yard with my bare hands! I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't KILL you though- our sheep used to eat it sometimes and didn't die!

Be careful about that, because sensitivity to it can be cumulative. I used to be like that, but several years ago, I accidentally crawled around in a patch of it. It was covering my forearms, and I had to take steroids to prevent it from driving me insane.

cafe · 03-31-2008, 10:29 PM

I try to stay away from it and then I go to the doctor and get a shot because I've got it all over my face and my eye is swelling shut.

Geoff · 03-31-2008, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by JAVO

Has anyone ever tried the technique of gradually consuming larger poison ivy leaves to "innoculate" themselves against a skin reaction to it?

Or do you know anyone who has and lived to tell about it?

Protecting Against Poison Ivy

Wait! What did the madmin in question ever do to you!

Ivy · 03-31-2008, 10:33 PM

prplchknz · 04-01-2008, 03:43 AM

I think i've grown imune I use to get it when I was a kid and have walked through it in the near past and been fine. though I don't roll around it. I don't roll around on the ground that much to begin.

Kiddo · 04-01-2008, 04:30 AM

I've always been immune to the stuff.

One of my professors used to boil it several times and make a tea out of it.

JAVO · 04-01-2008, 06:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Geoff

Wait! What did the madmin in question ever do to you!

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Originally Posted by Ivy

...just a few ~~lockets~~ leaves from your hair, this won't hurt a bit.

03-31-2008, 09:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
JAVO Heading to my cabin Join Date: Apr 2007 Type: NP Location: Ohio Posts: 2,251	Eating poison ivy Has anyone ever tried the technique of gradually consuming larger poison ivy leaves to "innoculate" themselves against a skin reaction to it? Or do you know anyone who has and lived to tell about it? Protecting Against Poison Ivy

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whatever shameless hussy Join Date: Oct 2007 Type: entp Location: wherever Posts: 7,620	I have never gotten poison ivy- even if I pulled it out of the yard with my bare hands! I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't KILL you though- our sheep used to eat it sometimes and didn't die! __________________ We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~ Kurt Vonnegut ENTP- 7w8 so/sp SCUEI

03-31-2008, 10:29 PM	#5 (permalink)
cafe AWOL Join Date: Apr 2007 Type: INFj Location: depressed midwest Posts: 4,930	I try to stay away from it and then I go to the doctor and get a shot because I've got it all over my face and my eye is swelling shut. __________________ This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. ~C. S. Lewis

03-31-2008, 10:33 PM	#7 (permalink)
Ivy Avatar is non-ironic Join Date: Apr 2007 Type: ???? Posts: 8,074	__________________ I don't wanna face my fears! I'm afraid of 'em! -Spongebob

04-01-2008, 03:43 AM	#8 (permalink)
prplchknz and free bunnies! Join Date: Jun 2007 Type: INFP Posts: 4,274	I think i've grown imune I use to get it when I was a kid and have walked through it in the near past and been fine. though I don't roll around it. I don't roll around on the ground that much to begin. __________________ "It was all very well to say `Drink me,' but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. `No, I'll look first,' she said, `and see whether it's marked "poison" or not'; ......if you drink much from a bottle marked `poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later."-Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland My pupils are not students they dilate but they never learn. my pupils are not students they dilate but they never learn. ~ Marilyn Manson.

03-31-2008, 09:24 PM	#2 (permalink)
Beat ...lost Join Date: Oct 2007 Type: ISTj Location: Yonder Posts: 4,806	I just stay away. hah...

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