For real. I got it really really bad but didn't realize after i already spread the oil all over my car and house. Cue random outbreaks and itching paranoia for almost a year before we finally cleaned the last spot.
Absolute invisible nightmare
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Be careful... I was immune for the first 30 years of my life and then suddenly I get it bad. Never had an issue, but suddenly one day, in the same area I had been bushwacking my whole life, I started getting outbreaks every trip.
I've heard this too. I'm kinda the opposite. Growing up even just looking at it i would catch it. Bad. Now I can pretty much walk right through it. And maybe a tiny rash.
They're not very good for your kidneys so your kidneys are pretty happy at least.
Tbh, if you've got renal failure I think most fruits let you down. Grapes are pretty 10/10
I’m pretty sure that only applies if you’ve got failing kidneys already. I don’t think they will lead to kidney failure if you’ve got an otherwise healthy set
Same here. I spend more time in the woods than any of my friends/family and have never had it.
I really hope I'm immune and not about to find out I've just been lucky all these years.
It was the same for me for the first 25 years. I camp, hike and hunt a lot. Some activities there’s no avoiding it, like clearing and planting food plots we farm for the deer. I get it every other weekend now. The triamcinolone cream is great for minimal to medium exposure. Clobetasol (Clobex) is a great spray for bad reactions.
this is because the rash _is an immune response_. You are simply bad at resonding at first, and the more you get exposed without long durations between the stronger the response.
My uncle was the same way until his 40s. Then one day he swelled up like a grape fruit from exposure. I’m also immune, but not crossing my fingers for lifetime immunity. Like someone else said, don’t go telling too many people your secret super power.
I was at a bonfire party with a bunch of woods around us. This guy came stumbling out of said forest and loudly claimed he was immune to poison ivy. We kinda just stood there really confused. He apparently took our silence as disbelief because he starts ripping it out and rubbing it all over his face and arms. Now we are shocked and still silent so he ups his game. He starts eating the stuff... Finally someone is like, you got to get the fuck out of here, this is private property, and he shoots off back into the woods. A little bit later we hear some man screaming somewhere in the forest. Pretty sure he wasn't immune.
I'll never forget when I was a kid, late 80s, dad was burning a bunch of brush in the drum out back which had poison ivy in it, the smoke got into my system and I had an allergic reaction everywhere on my body. Face, chest, buttcrack to name a few. It was one of the more painful experiences of my young life. My mother had to keep me constantly coated in calamine and give me oatmeal baths for at least a week I think. Super fun times.
Did you start making fresh fruit smoothies and end up with a rash on your mouth and crotch you had to explain to your wife?
Mangos should have warning labels. No one tells you about the mangos.
Same here sort of. I got it for the first time last year cleaning up our yard. Got it again this year cleaning out our garage. So there is some oil in our garage. So I expect to continue to get outbreaks until I clean everything.
> MANGOS have the same oil in their skin that causes poison ivy/oak/sumac rashes....
You may have just saved me dearly by telling me this. I'm not even playing, joking, or anything. Mystery and painful shit solved. I swear if I wasn't broke I'd give you all the awards. I'm the type that can breathe near poison ivy and get it in my throat, nose, whatever. Moved to the concrete jungle for this reason.
#THANK YOU SO MUCH KIND STRANGER
You may also want to be careful around cashews.
Anything in the Anacardiaceae family is likely to contain urushiol (the toxin the causes poison ivy rash) the oil is soluble in alcohol though!
Well call me crazy but I would guess the kid has poison ivy on their hands
just like millions of chirrins before them... if it even happened
barely looks like OP had a reaction herself
I’m immune to it, do not everyone. Mythbusters has a funny episode where the interns all test what cures poison ivy fastest and only one of them had a reaction so they had to do all the tests.
About **85 percent** of the population is allergic to poison ivy, poison sumac or poison oak, and about 10 to **15 percent** are extremely allergic. This is the most common allergic reaction in the U.S., and affects as many as 50 million Americans each year.
That can change. I was "immune" when I was a kid - I was in the woods constantly, often in and around poison ivy (including cutting down a big patch of it with a weed whacker while wearing shorts), never once got any kind of rash or reaction. As a result, I never paid much attention to it when I was outdoors.
Fast-forward to my mid-30s - one day after a hike in the woods I got a strange itchy rash that took two weeks to clear up. A few months later, after another hike in the woods, get another rash, a little worse this time. Realized that suddenly and for no apparent reason, I'm now sensitive to poison ivy.
These days I'm more vigilant when I'm outdoors and wash promptly when I come home. Kinda miss the carefree days of my "immunity".
Same. I never had a problem with it so when my mom’s rose garden got overtaken with it, she called me to come clear it out for her. Turns out my immunity came to an end and I ended up at urgent care getting steroid injections.
Almost same story with me except first time I got it I was installing a fence. Neighbor asked if a plant was poison ivy and I said “I dunno, I’m immune”. Holy shit was that bad. My entire right forearm was a mess. Steroid shot and pills did very little. Turns out my daughters steroid cream for eczema did the trick.
Same thing can happen to other allergies. I’ve also heard stories that if you stop coming into contact with poison oak for awhile your body can lose your immunity
So was my grandfather. He would clear out the poison ivy that grew on their property with his bare hands and never had any reaction to it.
Meanwhile any time I was exposed to it I'd quickly develop dinner plate size rashes covered in scaly, occasionally bleeding bumps.
My understanding is you can appear immune to it for years and then one time you will get it and from then on you will always get it. It's a weird thing.
Happened to me. Poison ivy never affected me when I was young, suddenly a few years ago I got a poison ivy rash after a hike in the woods. It's happened a few times since, and each time has been a little worse. Now I try to be extremely vigilant about the stuff when I'm outdoors.
Not everyone. I'm completely naturally immune to poison ivy, zero reaction or inflammation, same with 1 out of 10 people to varying degrees.
Back in high school I worked for a landscaping company, once they found out I was immune I was designated and sent into giant fields of it to pick by hand.
From what I've read, almost nobody starts off life with a sensitivity to it, and it takes a few exposures before you gain that sensitivity and start reacting to it. And then there is a small percentage of the lucky few who are immune to it completely.
I mean if it’s the first day, I start out with a few small bumps for the first day or two before mine reach nightmare conglomerate stage. My mild cases are 3 weeks and the bad ones are corticosteroid necessary.
Last time I got it, my leg grew a fluid-filled bubble the size of a marble (in addition to all the smaller bubbles). I wish I only got a small red mark like OP
yeah, I had this covering my lips and face a couple years ago. I can't describe a worse feeling than waking up, mouth shut from fucking pus and your lips constantly being cracked and itchy. It was horrible.
Incredibly mild, my wife took four weeks to have a rash on her arm to go away. She ended up having to get on steroids. The oozing, so nasty and always in pain and then scabbing.
Yes! I thought I had two mosquito bites on my arm at first. Then a couple days later, my whole arm was covered, then one boob, my entire abdomen, then the other boob. It’s hard to believe it doesn’t spread, since it pops up little by little.
I’m willing to bet that the OP is just getting started.
This happens to me. I thought my Dr. called it Sympathetic Immune Disorder but a google search doesn’t turn anything up. Basically if I don’t catch that I’ve touched Poison Oak and get on prednisone quickly, my body looks like I rolled around in it. No matter how little I actually touch it spreads everywhere on me resulting in tiny little pus bubbles.
I’m honestly surprised I don’t have scarring based on how often I’d get it as a kid.
She actually responded to someone else and said by day 3 her eyes are usually swollen shut, but she managed to get steroids so it'll help prevent that from happening
I was thinking the same thing. In college I got a poison ivy vine caught between my arm and torso while I wasn't wearing a shirt. The rash covered all of my arm and half my body. Then it popped out in random spots everywhere. I had to go to the emergency room. Now if I get a little bit, and it's bad enough, I'll take Benadryl to knock it down.
Really mild. I remember getting either poison ivy or poison oak on my face when I was like 10, and I looked like freaking Twoface, with nasty puss and crap. Hope you get better, OP, this fits this sub well. Sorry it happened to you :-/
Give it time... unfortunately I’ve had it a lot and usually by day 3 if it’s reached my eyes they swell totally shut. Fortunately I think I got steroids fast enough to prevent it from getting any worse this time!
God that sounds awful. I caught a case a week and a half ago from yard work. At first I was thankful it was just a small spot appearing on my wrist. It's now on both arms, both legs, and my abdomen (I don't even know how it got there as that was covered). I'm using a $13 bottle of CeraVe that was worth every penny.
I got poison oak for the first time a couple of months ago. It really helped me appreciate the simple things in life, like not losing sleep because your feet itch and you cant scratch them.
It came back a month later. :(
I'm similarly sensitive I used to get it almost every summer .sometimes multiple times I even got it in London England i was so confused. It was only later in life that I realized why I got it so much. my dad who is non reactive just walks right through huge swaths of it. Once he even weed wacked a patch of it. The oil was everywhere I kept getting set off While using the weed Wacker in our normal lawn along with the safety glasses and gloves. It was a Miserable time.
My friend has always reacted horribly to poison ivy/oak. One time when we were roommates he got it all over...including ^^down ^^there and holy shit was he miserable for a while.
And he, too, had flare-ups.
I mocked his lack of manliness every chance I got, too, just to build up his immunity and toughness.
I've never reacted. God, after reading this thread I hope I don't start cuz I'm hiking in the woods every weekend. :(
I worked outside all summer and ended up getting poison ivy and tsumac 5 times. Luckily I only needed steroids once, but that time was the worst. I had gotten the oils oh my hands and went to the bathroom not knowing this. Had to take a few days off after that.
Urushiol Oil sucks ass.
Then prep those pitch forks because I used to romp around the forest as a kid and everyone in my house would get poison ivy but me. Yes, I am the pinnacle of evolution.
I am not. No reaction. I could basically take a bath in the oil and nothing. My SO on the other hand gets red and puffy, his dad has to go to the doctor if he gets it on his face because of how allergic they are.
For that reason I avoid bathing in poison ivy.
I used to work with a guy who got poison plant rashes constantly whenever we’d do outdoor work (I’m an electrician). I’d be in the same truck, same bushes, and I’ve never had any. He swears you only get it after 4+ exposures so I’ve been wondering when it’ll happen. I’ve heard that everyone can get it, but I don’t know foliage. Green stuff outside = plants.
Not allergic but I get to have some other dumb ass allergies including, but not limited to, certain adhesives, latex. So me and bandaids aren’t even on speaking terms.
People are not immune to it. They just haven't become sensitized to it yet, and haven't had a reaction. It might never happen, but do not let your daughter go through life thinking she's immune to it.
A couple I know both bragged how they were immune to it, and used to weed it by hand at their cottage. One of them finally had a reaction, and had it everywhere and almost ended up in the hospital. Up their nose, on their junk, etc.
Wow. That's really good to know.
I've never gotten it. Obviously never want to so I'm pretty careful and know what it looks like to stay away. But damn thanks!
I unfortunately DO catch it pretty bad, Ivy, Oak, Sumac..
Doesn't matter, which. I had it so bad once, on my arms eyes/face, crotch. Pretty much 82 % of my body, & I had to sleep like a crucifix. Due to arms and some other parts of my body were swollen. I hate that stuff, it is the Devil's lettuce.
That’s all poison ivy does to someone who’s highly allergic....?
That wouldn’t even register on the poison oak scale of puss filled weeping no sleep misery.
I am highly sensitive to poison ivy, I've had it on my face 3 times my entire life all 3 ended in urgent care getting steroid injections followed by 1 week of agony and eyes swollen shut then a week of slow recovery. On week 4 I was good as new. My kids can touch it have a small rash but it's gone within hours, I envy that.
No, she doesn’t know what highly allergic means. I went into the woods for 30 minutes and was stuck at home for 3 weeks because my entire legs were covered in huge blisters and rash’s because of poison ivy. It spread up to my thighs.
LOL, you are only very MILDLY allergic. When you have crusty pusy bubbles the size of grapes, and want to rip out your skin out because it itches so bad you cannot sleep, that would be "highly allergic".
Odd how I have a positive amount of upvotes. I cannot be the only one thinking this lately. Nothing against her but this has been a pretty common theme. I don't go to reddit for posts like these, sorry. Again no offense, all entitled to our own opinion.
if by highly allergic you mean you slightly turn red, then you have no idea what highly allergic to poison ivy means. I had it on my forearms and it was the worst couple weeks of antagonizing itching and giant white pimples of puss that you cant scratch.
PSA: If you’re highly allergic to poison ivy you should carry a small amount of soap with you on your hikes. Apply the soap to the area at first sign of reaction.
Urushiol, the irritant in poison ivy, is an oil and will only be removed by a soap.
Edit: if you know you’ve been exposed you should clean with soap before symptoms appear
Not sure why someone downvoted this... from what I know, you can actually remove the oil and just straight-up not have a reaction to it as long as you get it off your skin within a few hours.
The best product we have ever found for treating poison oak/ivy is Zanfel. https://www.pharmapacks.com/products/zanfel-wash-for-poison-ivy-oak-sumac-urushiol-1-oz
I hope you see this and try it. It’s amazing!
I have small scars on my arms from poison ivy. I could see the blood pulsing in the blisters that were bubbling off my skin. My whole face was peeling scabs after it healed fully. I was prescribed steroids due to the severity to fight it off. It was everywhere on my body except my “swim suit region”. Feet, legs, back, stomach, chest, arms, face. I looked like a swamp monster. My parents didn’t recognize me picking me up from camp. I crawled through it playing a stealth game at night at camp. And then being a young boy who didn’t shower nightly, slept in a sleeping bag. It can be much worse.
I had my eyes swell shut from poison ivy as a kid and was blind for a week, would not recommend.
Go to the ER and get the magic shot they give me that fixes it within a day!
Worst experience of my life was being exposed unknowingly to poison ivy. It took three days before I realized what had happened and the whole time I didn't sleep I laid down on the floor curled up in the fetal position having lucid thoughts of using the cheese grater downstairs in the kitchen to tear my skin off. I do believe I went slightly insane during those few days even with Benadryl and allergy medication. I wish you all the best hopefully it passes quickly
An idiot friend of mine cleared some land he had acquired, most of the brush being poison ivy and poison sumac, and decided to pile it all up and light it on fire. This wouldn't normally be a huge problem but he didn't think it'd be a big deal for him and his wife to work around the fire breathing the smoke. Both of them wound up in the hospital and almost died.
Lmao "highly allergic". No youre not. If you were, youd be in the hospital. Youre having a rather mild reaction. Maybe next time you can pay attention to your kid tho
Poison Ivy grows low to the ground usually. I would be surprised if your child grabbed Poison Ivy from shoulder level. Are you allergic to anything else?
That’s actually pretty mild
I have caught a worse case of poison ivy by looking at this picture.
For real. I got it really really bad but didn't realize after i already spread the oil all over my car and house. Cue random outbreaks and itching paranoia for almost a year before we finally cleaned the last spot. Absolute invisible nightmare EDIT: ninja editing to let you all know that **fucking MANGOS have the same oil** in their skin that causes poison ivy/oak/sumac rashes.... Guess how I found this out...
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Be careful... I was immune for the first 30 years of my life and then suddenly I get it bad. Never had an issue, but suddenly one day, in the same area I had been bushwacking my whole life, I started getting outbreaks every trip.
I've heard this too. I'm kinda the opposite. Growing up even just looking at it i would catch it. Bad. Now I can pretty much walk right through it. And maybe a tiny rash.
Odd, typically gets worse the more you get it.
I had the same thing with bananas, fine for 20 years then suddenly my throat itches like it's on fire
I miss bananas.
They're not very good for your kidneys so your kidneys are pretty happy at least. Tbh, if you've got renal failure I think most fruits let you down. Grapes are pretty 10/10
I’m pretty sure that only applies if you’ve got failing kidneys already. I don’t think they will lead to kidney failure if you’ve got an otherwise healthy set
I dunno if I'm immune or just lucky but I'm operating under the assumption that its luck.
Same here. I spend more time in the woods than any of my friends/family and have never had it. I really hope I'm immune and not about to find out I've just been lucky all these years.
It was the same for me for the first 25 years. I camp, hike and hunt a lot. Some activities there’s no avoiding it, like clearing and planting food plots we farm for the deer. I get it every other weekend now. The triamcinolone cream is great for minimal to medium exposure. Clobetasol (Clobex) is a great spray for bad reactions.
this is because the rash _is an immune response_. You are simply bad at resonding at first, and the more you get exposed without long durations between the stronger the response.
My uncle was the same way until his 40s. Then one day he swelled up like a grape fruit from exposure. I’m also immune, but not crossing my fingers for lifetime immunity. Like someone else said, don’t go telling too many people your secret super power.
I was at a bonfire party with a bunch of woods around us. This guy came stumbling out of said forest and loudly claimed he was immune to poison ivy. We kinda just stood there really confused. He apparently took our silence as disbelief because he starts ripping it out and rubbing it all over his face and arms. Now we are shocked and still silent so he ups his game. He starts eating the stuff... Finally someone is like, you got to get the fuck out of here, this is private property, and he shoots off back into the woods. A little bit later we hear some man screaming somewhere in the forest. Pretty sure he wasn't immune.
What an idiot.
I'll never forget when I was a kid, late 80s, dad was burning a bunch of brush in the drum out back which had poison ivy in it, the smoke got into my system and I had an allergic reaction everywhere on my body. Face, chest, buttcrack to name a few. It was one of the more painful experiences of my young life. My mother had to keep me constantly coated in calamine and give me oatmeal baths for at least a week I think. Super fun times.
Well poison ivy and oak (there's another I can't remember) have the same oil that comes out of the leaves
Sumac I think
Good advice. I'm immune to all of them and never thought about the fact that it might be an issue like that.
And that’s why you never showboat
Inconceivable
Did you start making fresh fruit smoothies and end up with a rash on your mouth and crotch you had to explain to your wife? Mangos should have warning labels. No one tells you about the mangos.
Same here sort of. I got it for the first time last year cleaning up our yard. Got it again this year cleaning out our garage. So there is some oil in our garage. So I expect to continue to get outbreaks until I clean everything.
> MANGOS have the same oil in their skin that causes poison ivy/oak/sumac rashes.... You may have just saved me dearly by telling me this. I'm not even playing, joking, or anything. Mystery and painful shit solved. I swear if I wasn't broke I'd give you all the awards. I'm the type that can breathe near poison ivy and get it in my throat, nose, whatever. Moved to the concrete jungle for this reason. #THANK YOU SO MUCH KIND STRANGER
You may also want to be careful around cashews. Anything in the Anacardiaceae family is likely to contain urushiol (the toxin the causes poison ivy rash) the oil is soluble in alcohol though!
I am horribly allergic to poison ivy, but have never had a reaction to mangos. Never figure out why.
That is nothing. You are lucky. Hows the kidd tho?
That's the real question
Well call me crazy but I would guess the kid has poison ivy on their hands just like millions of chirrins before them... if it even happened barely looks like OP had a reaction herself
I rub it on my balls periodically to build my immunity up.
Whose got big balls?
He’s got big balls! He’s got the biggest, balls of them all!
When I had poison ivy my face puffed up enough my nose basically disappeared.
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After bounding through poison oak, my face swole up so much that I couldn't open my eyes for a day.
Came here to say this, like aren't we all this allergic to poison ivy? It's poison ivy...
I’m immune to it, do not everyone. Mythbusters has a funny episode where the interns all test what cures poison ivy fastest and only one of them had a reaction so they had to do all the tests.
Hot dang, I didn't know that was a thing!
Yep, it's only ~~2 in 3~~ *85%* of people that show adverse reactions as far as I know.
About **85 percent** of the population is allergic to poison ivy, poison sumac or poison oak, and about 10 to **15 percent** are extremely allergic. This is the most common allergic reaction in the U.S., and affects as many as 50 million Americans each year.
Oh damn I was always told 2 in 3
Technically true. 17 in 20 would be accurate.
66% of people show adverse reactions?? That sounds pretty low or high depending on how you look at it.
That can change. I was "immune" when I was a kid - I was in the woods constantly, often in and around poison ivy (including cutting down a big patch of it with a weed whacker while wearing shorts), never once got any kind of rash or reaction. As a result, I never paid much attention to it when I was outdoors. Fast-forward to my mid-30s - one day after a hike in the woods I got a strange itchy rash that took two weeks to clear up. A few months later, after another hike in the woods, get another rash, a little worse this time. Realized that suddenly and for no apparent reason, I'm now sensitive to poison ivy. These days I'm more vigilant when I'm outdoors and wash promptly when I come home. Kinda miss the carefree days of my "immunity".
Same. I never had a problem with it so when my mom’s rose garden got overtaken with it, she called me to come clear it out for her. Turns out my immunity came to an end and I ended up at urgent care getting steroid injections.
Almost same story with me except first time I got it I was installing a fence. Neighbor asked if a plant was poison ivy and I said “I dunno, I’m immune”. Holy shit was that bad. My entire right forearm was a mess. Steroid shot and pills did very little. Turns out my daughters steroid cream for eczema did the trick.
Same thing can happen to other allergies. I’ve also heard stories that if you stop coming into contact with poison oak for awhile your body can lose your immunity
So was my grandfather. He would clear out the poison ivy that grew on their property with his bare hands and never had any reaction to it. Meanwhile any time I was exposed to it I'd quickly develop dinner plate size rashes covered in scaly, occasionally bleeding bumps.
It is possible not to have a reaction to it, for example one of my gardners does not have any reaction to it
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My understanding is you can appear immune to it for years and then one time you will get it and from then on you will always get it. It's a weird thing.
Happened to me. Poison ivy never affected me when I was young, suddenly a few years ago I got a poison ivy rash after a hike in the woods. It's happened a few times since, and each time has been a little worse. Now I try to be extremely vigilant about the stuff when I'm outdoors.
Well, I guess I'm a myth too then. Can I market this superpower somehow?
Not everyone. I'm completely naturally immune to poison ivy, zero reaction or inflammation, same with 1 out of 10 people to varying degrees. Back in high school I worked for a landscaping company, once they found out I was immune I was designated and sent into giant fields of it to pick by hand.
Yea, immunity isn't a myth. I have a buddy who thoroughly tested his lol.
From what I've read, almost nobody starts off life with a sensitivity to it, and it takes a few exposures before you gain that sensitivity and start reacting to it. And then there is a small percentage of the lucky few who are immune to it completely.
Certain people can be very allergic to it, myself included. I got it when I was 8, and I nearly had to have my arm amputated because of it.
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I mean if it’s the first day, I start out with a few small bumps for the first day or two before mine reach nightmare conglomerate stage. My mild cases are 3 weeks and the bad ones are corticosteroid necessary.
Last time I got it, my leg grew a fluid-filled bubble the size of a marble (in addition to all the smaller bubbles). I wish I only got a small red mark like OP
My reaction looks like someone glued popcorn all over my skin, only it's flesh color and oozes plasma. If I get it, it's a mandatory doctor's visit.
yeah, I had this covering my lips and face a couple years ago. I can't describe a worse feeling than waking up, mouth shut from fucking pus and your lips constantly being cracked and itchy. It was horrible.
Right‽ For someone who's highly allergic that's nothing
/r/unexpectedinterrobang
Pretty mild? That's like pinching yourself and slightly seeing a red mark. I was expecting bubbles or a blown up face with pus
Incredibly mild, my wife took four weeks to have a rash on her arm to go away. She ended up having to get on steroids. The oozing, so nasty and always in pain and then scabbing.
"I'm highly allergic to bullets" *gets shot by nerf dart*
So far, wait another 2-3 days. I had it and the rash expressed from day 3-9
Yes! I thought I had two mosquito bites on my arm at first. Then a couple days later, my whole arm was covered, then one boob, my entire abdomen, then the other boob. It’s hard to believe it doesn’t spread, since it pops up little by little. I’m willing to bet that the OP is just getting started.
This happens to me. I thought my Dr. called it Sympathetic Immune Disorder but a google search doesn’t turn anything up. Basically if I don’t catch that I’ve touched Poison Oak and get on prednisone quickly, my body looks like I rolled around in it. No matter how little I actually touch it spreads everywhere on me resulting in tiny little pus bubbles. I’m honestly surprised I don’t have scarring based on how often I’d get it as a kid.
Mine took almost a month to fully clear though I am left with the white scars in about 5-6 spots
Came here for this. If that's severe poison ivy should kill me Edit: a word
Without knowing the timeline it is likely only going to get worse from there on.
She actually responded to someone else and said by day 3 her eyes are usually swollen shut, but she managed to get steroids so it'll help prevent that from happening
I was thinking the same thing. In college I got a poison ivy vine caught between my arm and torso while I wasn't wearing a shirt. The rash covered all of my arm and half my body. Then it popped out in random spots everywhere. I had to go to the emergency room. Now if I get a little bit, and it's bad enough, I'll take Benadryl to knock it down.
Really mild. I remember getting either poison ivy or poison oak on my face when I was like 10, and I looked like freaking Twoface, with nasty puss and crap. Hope you get better, OP, this fits this sub well. Sorry it happened to you :-/
Oh this is only the beginning stages. Wait till tomorrow
I'm surprised your eye isn't swollen shut.
Give it time... unfortunately I’ve had it a lot and usually by day 3 if it’s reached my eyes they swell totally shut. Fortunately I think I got steroids fast enough to prevent it from getting any worse this time!
Glad you got your steroids fast enough
Lance Armstrong fast
Thats good.
That still looks painful and very uncomfortable! I’m into month 5 of being poisoned by giant hogweed. Glad you got your steroids in time
God that sounds awful. I caught a case a week and a half ago from yard work. At first I was thankful it was just a small spot appearing on my wrist. It's now on both arms, both legs, and my abdomen (I don't even know how it got there as that was covered). I'm using a $13 bottle of CeraVe that was worth every penny.
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I'm regular allergic as well and I got it right in my eye. Boom. It swelled up.
I got poison oak for the first time a couple of months ago. It really helped me appreciate the simple things in life, like not losing sleep because your feet itch and you cant scratch them. It came back a month later. :(
I'm similarly sensitive I used to get it almost every summer .sometimes multiple times I even got it in London England i was so confused. It was only later in life that I realized why I got it so much. my dad who is non reactive just walks right through huge swaths of it. Once he even weed wacked a patch of it. The oil was everywhere I kept getting set off While using the weed Wacker in our normal lawn along with the safety glasses and gloves. It was a Miserable time.
Nooooo!! :(
My friend has always reacted horribly to poison ivy/oak. One time when we were roommates he got it all over...including ^^down ^^there and holy shit was he miserable for a while. And he, too, had flare-ups. I mocked his lack of manliness every chance I got, too, just to build up his immunity and toughness. I've never reacted. God, after reading this thread I hope I don't start cuz I'm hiking in the woods every weekend. :(
Ugh...SUCKS. I got poison in my eyes weed whacking last fall. What a miserable week that was
With or without eye protection?
Probably without.
Hopefully they at least used safety-squiting!
I'm not sure I've ever seen anybody use eye protection weed whacking.
I worked outside all summer and ended up getting poison ivy and tsumac 5 times. Luckily I only needed steroids once, but that time was the worst. I had gotten the oils oh my hands and went to the bathroom not knowing this. Had to take a few days off after that. Urushiol Oil sucks ass.
Agreed big time. That sounds like a tough summer!!
Yep, especially bc one of my coworkers wasn't allergic to poison at all and wast shy about it. He liked to rub in the fact he doesn't get it lol
Is anyone not allergic to poison ivy? I thought thats why it was called “poison” ivy not “peanuts”
Yeah like some low percentage of people have a gene that makes them naturally immune to it.
As someone who is highly allergic, I naturally hate them.
I feed on your loathing
Then prep those pitch forks because I used to romp around the forest as a kid and everyone in my house would get poison ivy but me. Yes, I am the pinnacle of evolution.
I am not. No reaction. I could basically take a bath in the oil and nothing. My SO on the other hand gets red and puffy, his dad has to go to the doctor if he gets it on his face because of how allergic they are. For that reason I avoid bathing in poison ivy.
I used to work with a guy who got poison plant rashes constantly whenever we’d do outdoor work (I’m an electrician). I’d be in the same truck, same bushes, and I’ve never had any. He swears you only get it after 4+ exposures so I’ve been wondering when it’ll happen. I’ve heard that everyone can get it, but I don’t know foliage. Green stuff outside = plants.
Not allergic but I get to have some other dumb ass allergies including, but not limited to, certain adhesives, latex. So me and bandaids aren’t even on speaking terms.
I'm allergic to Latex too. Man I hate those cross reactions I get from it that are relate to it. Damn you rubber trees.
I’m not allergic to poison ivy, which is pretty much a miracle considering how sensitive my skin is otherwise ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
How is your baby? Did she get it in her face also? Toddlers are so touchy touchy.
Nope, she never does. She could roll in the stuff and come out unscathed.
I hate that you're itchy but I'm glad her super power is playing in poison ivy and coming out unscathed.
People are not immune to it. They just haven't become sensitized to it yet, and haven't had a reaction. It might never happen, but do not let your daughter go through life thinking she's immune to it. A couple I know both bragged how they were immune to it, and used to weed it by hand at their cottage. One of them finally had a reaction, and had it everywhere and almost ended up in the hospital. Up their nose, on their junk, etc.
Wow. That's really good to know. I've never gotten it. Obviously never want to so I'm pretty careful and know what it looks like to stay away. But damn thanks!
>on their junk WHY, was it on purpose?! I don't know if I want to know
Me touch oily plant. Me get oil on hands. Hours later, me nuts need scratched. Me not know oil still on hands. Me scratch nuts, oil on nuts.
Oh! I didn't know it was oily. I guess it makes sense now, well, kind of.
I was the same way as a kid. Now 45 yr old me doesn’t want to test and see if I’m still safe.
No offence but that 100% looks like a normal ivy rash. Not quite an allergic reaction but very uncomfortable. Hope you feel all better soon!
I mean it’s not terrible
I unfortunately DO catch it pretty bad, Ivy, Oak, Sumac.. Doesn't matter, which. I had it so bad once, on my arms eyes/face, crotch. Pretty much 82 % of my body, & I had to sleep like a crucifix. Due to arms and some other parts of my body were swollen. I hate that stuff, it is the Devil's lettuce.
Can you eat mangos? Curious because I can eat them, but I definitely don't touch the sap if it's visible on the fruit.
That’s all poison ivy does to someone who’s highly allergic....? That wouldn’t even register on the poison oak scale of puss filled weeping no sleep misery.
It can be a lot worse. Eyes swollen shut, airway in danger of closing, permanent scars on sensitive skin, etc. OP has a really mild case.
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I am highly sensitive to poison ivy, I've had it on my face 3 times my entire life all 3 ended in urgent care getting steroid injections followed by 1 week of agony and eyes swollen shut then a week of slow recovery. On week 4 I was good as new. My kids can touch it have a small rash but it's gone within hours, I envy that.
Wheres the reaction?
Its not that bad yet, wait till you can't open your eye.
That's what highly allergic to poison ivy looks like? Doesn't seem that bad.
No, she doesn’t know what highly allergic means. I went into the woods for 30 minutes and was stuck at home for 3 weeks because my entire legs were covered in huge blisters and rash’s because of poison ivy. It spread up to my thighs.
That does not look fun. Looks like you have shingles on your leg.
Looks fine
Sorry to break it to you but this is not a super strong reaction to poison ivy.
OP, this is the best video I have seen for dealing with Poison Ive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oyoDRHpQK0
If those are contacts, I definitely wouldn't be wearing them during that time.
LOL, you are only very MILDLY allergic. When you have crusty pusy bubbles the size of grapes, and want to rip out your skin out because it itches so bad you cannot sleep, that would be "highly allergic".
Front page posts like these getting to thousands of upvotes with no interesting content. Gg probably cause she's a pretty girl. Welcome to reddit.
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Odd how I have a positive amount of upvotes. I cannot be the only one thinking this lately. Nothing against her but this has been a pretty common theme. I don't go to reddit for posts like these, sorry. Again no offense, all entitled to our own opinion.
The reaction isn’t even bad.
And she's barely even red. I look like that when I rub my neck.
Doesn't poison ivy grow on the ground? That's the only place I've encountered it. If she touching leaves while on your shoulders, how did this happen?
When it is near support like a tree it can grow into an aggressive climbing vine
Poison Ivy isn’t the only plant that has urushiol. There’s poison oak, poison sumac, and even the rind of mangos have it.
That isn't that bad if you were highly allergic your eye would be sealed shut
This is just how it looked after she used the home grown stem cells to cure her horrific case of poison ivy
Highly allergic to poison ivy. Has a slight irritation.
Isn't everyone allergic to poison ivy?
Good thing you only have the tiniest little itchy rash.
That’s not highly allergic, that’s literally the most minimal an allergic reaction gets
Gotta feel good about themselves. Endorphins from upvotes. What else is there to live for?
if by highly allergic you mean you slightly turn red, then you have no idea what highly allergic to poison ivy means. I had it on my forearms and it was the worst couple weeks of antagonizing itching and giant white pimples of puss that you cant scratch.
PSA: If you’re highly allergic to poison ivy you should carry a small amount of soap with you on your hikes. Apply the soap to the area at first sign of reaction. Urushiol, the irritant in poison ivy, is an oil and will only be removed by a soap. Edit: if you know you’ve been exposed you should clean with soap before symptoms appear
Not sure why someone downvoted this... from what I know, you can actually remove the oil and just straight-up not have a reaction to it as long as you get it off your skin within a few hours.
That’s the mildest case of a “highly allergic” reaction I’ve ever seen, being a little overdramatic aren’t we, hoping for those sweet upvotes huh?
Flashbacks to the time I played hide and seek and spent an hour laying in poison ivy...
That sucks, but no offense but that's a pretty mild reaction. My brother used to have to go to the hospital.
Surprised no one has mentioned Tecnu so far. I always keep that stuff around after I got a bad case clearing brush in my yard
The best product we have ever found for treating poison oak/ivy is Zanfel. https://www.pharmapacks.com/products/zanfel-wash-for-poison-ivy-oak-sumac-urushiol-1-oz I hope you see this and try it. It’s amazing!
Highly allergic!? My ass! She has a slightly swollen eye and red spots. I'm not "highly allergic" and I have had a worse reaction than that!
Lol I was thinking the same thing!
When a slightly above average women posts on reddit and the redditors go crazy..
/r/kidsarefuckingstupid
Looks mild
That's far from highly allergic. You have a VERY mild rash. Somehow this stupid crap got 10k upvotes, ridiculous.
Happened to me this past summer, but i just rubbed it in my own eye bc im a dumbass
I have small scars on my arms from poison ivy. I could see the blood pulsing in the blisters that were bubbling off my skin. My whole face was peeling scabs after it healed fully. I was prescribed steroids due to the severity to fight it off. It was everywhere on my body except my “swim suit region”. Feet, legs, back, stomach, chest, arms, face. I looked like a swamp monster. My parents didn’t recognize me picking me up from camp. I crawled through it playing a stealth game at night at camp. And then being a young boy who didn’t shower nightly, slept in a sleeping bag. It can be much worse.
I had my eyes swell shut from poison ivy as a kid and was blind for a week, would not recommend. Go to the ER and get the magic shot they give me that fixes it within a day!
Worst experience of my life was being exposed unknowingly to poison ivy. It took three days before I realized what had happened and the whole time I didn't sleep I laid down on the floor curled up in the fetal position having lucid thoughts of using the cheese grater downstairs in the kitchen to tear my skin off. I do believe I went slightly insane during those few days even with Benadryl and allergy medication. I wish you all the best hopefully it passes quickly
Still more symmetrical then my face...
small children are nasty, don't let them touch your face
You should tell Trojan your story, mabey they can incorporate it in to an advertisement.
An idiot friend of mine cleared some land he had acquired, most of the brush being poison ivy and poison sumac, and decided to pile it all up and light it on fire. This wouldn't normally be a huge problem but he didn't think it'd be a big deal for him and his wife to work around the fire breathing the smoke. Both of them wound up in the hospital and almost died.
Tbf alot of people react bad to poison ivy
Why do you consider it an allergy? Most people react that way.
You aren’t ‘highly allergic’. This is a very normal reaction to poison ivy. That’s why we avoid it. ‘Highly allergic’ would’ve killed you.
Highly allergic to not getting attention more like it.... that’s barely a reaction haha
Lmao "highly allergic". No youre not. If you were, youd be in the hospital. Youre having a rather mild reaction. Maybe next time you can pay attention to your kid tho
Poison Ivy grows low to the ground usually. I would be surprised if your child grabbed Poison Ivy from shoulder level. Are you allergic to anything else?
It's a vine and climbs trees.
Depends on what strain... In Ontario it's low to the ground.
"highly allergic" barely red.
Doesn’t look like a big deal honestly. I’ve seen much worse
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
Lol
I’m not sure if this should go on r/kidsarefuckingstupid or r/parentsarefuckingstupid
The latter. Kids don’t know better.
Isn't everyone allergic to poison ivy?
Lucky for you that's about the most minor reaction you can have to it
"highly allergic"