Eating poison ivy

[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

 

[swordpath]

I just stay away. hah...

 

[miss fortune]

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]

I just stay away. hah...

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

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]

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]

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]

 

[prplchknz]

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]

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]

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

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

 

[swordpath]

Actually I think I might be immune too, naturally. I've spent a lot of times in woods growing up but have never had an outbreak.