If you're anything like me you can't get
anywhere near Poison Ivy without spending the next two to three week scratching
your skin off. And, I might add, it's not like snake venom, you don't build up
an immunity to it. I have come to understand that you become more allergic with
each major exposure.
Let
me take a moment to say, sometimes other plants will be in the way, plants of a
desirable nature……you must choose…….sometimes the good die young so the
itchless need not scratch.
Now, let me warn you, it will look dead in two week but don’t touch or grab it with your bare hands; the itchy substance of the plant is an oil, and it is still there. And don’t burn it either, the oil will suspend in the smoke; and I don’t think you’ll be able to get your hand deep enough into your mouth to scratch your itching lungs. Just leave it, or, if you must, carefully remove it while wearing a long sleeve shirt and throw away rubber work gloves.
Please study this picture carefully, cut
it out and put it in your wallet or purse get to know this plant, be able to
recognize it on the fly. To not be astute in the profile of this harmless
looking perennial will cause you great embarrassment in the presents of others,
you will feel the eyes of them all as they whisper among themselves, “who’s the
leper in the Calamine paint”.
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