[GeoStL] Re: Poison Ivy

  • From: d-a-v-e@xxxxxxxxxx
  • To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:31:33 +0000

When I was a teen, my dad used to get some small liquid doses of anti-ivy - I 
think it came from the telephone company.  I never got poison ivy while taking 
it.
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From: Mike Griffin
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Subject: [GeoStL] Poison Ivy

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FYI... Now you know! :-)

Q.} I have a friend who is a city arborist. He knows a bit about plants as 
well as trees. He told me that it was possible to build up a relative 
immunity to poison ivy by ingesting the leaves of the plant in small doses 
over time. Is this true?
Submitted by: Josh, Knoxville, TN

A.} Back in April 1987 a study on ingesting poison ivy to develop immunity 
was reported in the Archives of Dermatology. The report said it didn't work. 
But cases of severe reactions in the mouth of people who have tried a nibble 
of poison ivy are well documented. The future may bring a pill that 
decreases sensitivity to poison ivy, oak, and sumac, and the pill may be 
derived from the plants, but no doctor I have ever talked to recommends 
eating poison ivy, no matter how small the bite.


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