My experience with poison ivy:  I had a very severe case as a child and
appeared to be immune to it after that.

After I was married and had children, we built a house in a wooded area, and
no matter what we put on it, we had poison ivy so entrenched around one tree
we couldn't kill it.  My children, as well as my husband, kept having bad
cases of the rash.  So I, who thought I was immune, decided to pull it up by
the roots with my bare hands.  I came close to having to be hospitalized.
Particularly when some fool told me a folk remedy - to put bleach into the
water in a bathtub and immerse myself in it. O-U-C-H!

Sylvia S. Edwards
Huntsville, Alabama
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----- Original Message -----
From: ferreter <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Poison Ivy, ect.


> Well after further investigation it appears that you are right Sir James .
> Don't ask me how but I have been informed by an MD friend that some
people,
> for who knows what reason, are not effected by the Acid oil in the poison
> Ivy, go figure? A side note here , it appears that the 'immunity " does
not
> last through life and even thought you are immune now , the day might come
> along when the poison ivy will effect you . So once again that weasel was
> wrong, error, delete, error message 440, file not found ETC.
> Ferreter, the depressed (stop clapping , I herd that!!!)