Posted by MarkB_MI on July 04, 2008 at 04:05:07 from (216.234.99.66):
In Reply to: OT-Poison Ivy posted by Heyseed on July 03, 2008 at 18:16:37:
It's funny, but although we have always had poison ivy around our house, it's never bothered me. I don't deliberately come in contact with it, but I don't go out of my way to avoid it either. I got it very bad when I was a kid and I think I may have developed a resistance to it. A friend of mine who is very sensitive to poison ivy visited us and he broke out just from walking around our yard.
In his book "Stalking the Wild Asparagus", Euell Gibbons talks about immunizing himself from poison ivy by eating small amounts of it every spring. Google brought up an interview with him on this topic from Mother Earth News; I've posted it below. In the interview he mentions that there is an over-the-counter pill you can buy that does the same thing. I've never seen them; I'll have to check the next time I'm in the drugstore.
As a kid, I remember a scoutmaster who said he overcame a serious sensitivity to poison ivy by eating it. "They put me in the hospital for a week and I wished I could die," is what he told me. But he said it fixed his sensitivity.
The other day I mentioned this to a friend. He said he knew someone who told him that he was immune to poison ivy and proceeded to demonstrate it by eating a leaf. He was in the hospital that same day with poison ivy rash inside his throat. So eating poison ivy is NOT something I recommend.
I killed a big patch of it in our yard with Ortho "Brush-Be-Gone".
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