A comment on Boy Scouts on camping trips.  Don't ever mistakenly burn poison
ivy at a camp fire.  My doctor's son almost lost his life.  He inhaled the
smoke and it swelled his throat and bronchial tubes to the point he couldn't
breath.  They were a long way from medical help, and only CPR kept him alive
until they reached the hospital.

In fact, be careful what you do burn.  I am allergic to elm trees.  So badly
so, that my husband cut down several in our yard, stacked them up to burn in
the fire place.  I had a severe reaction to the ashes when I cleaned the
fireplace (the smoke went up the chimney I suppose, and I wasn't in the room
when it burned).

Sylvia S. Edwards
Huntsville, Alabama
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Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 5:45 PM
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> Excellent advice Kurt, First hand experience as I once had a rock give way
> and I slid down a hill threw western poison oak, the result turned into a
> blister on just about every part of the body , shots of cortisone , laid
in
> a bath of oatmeal, scratched like a dog with fleas for two weeks not to
> mention  stock in the company that makes calamine lotion went up ten
points
> .
> One other bit of Boy Scouts advice , when you do get poison oak on your
arm
> for example , goto the nearest stream (conveniently poison oak only grows
> near streams ) dig out some good sandy mud and scrub the area then
submerge
> in stream , repeat at least 5-6 times , believe it or not this works but
you
> have to scrub and wash real well . good luck , ferreter,  weasel'n the day
> away