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lucillle

Poison Ivy sensitivity

lucillle
7 years ago

I get quite a reaction to poison ivy. Many years ago in college I was actually hospitalized once when I was exposed while camping.

I found some growing in a hedge of roses I have recently and used gloves to pull most of it up. I still got a rash elsewhere besides my covered hands and part of my face swelled with one eye almost swelling shut. It took a couple weeks for everything to resolve. Caladry topically and Benadryl orally helped.

Yesterday I went out and used a paintbrush to paint Roundup on some leaves of some of the poison ivy I didn't get last time. This morning a couple of my fingers are starting to get a rash and I don't even recall touching any, but I must have inadvertently touched a leaf.

I'm hoping that the Roundup kills it off completely. If not I'll have to reapply it, maybe I will use a brush taped to a dowel so I don't get anywhere near it.

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