[GeoStL] Re: Poison Ivy

  • From: Craig <seaeye@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:35:56 -0700 (PDT)

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I'm not sure I would have tried that method.
I can't imagine PI of the mouth.

-seaeye

Member SLAGA / EGO


--- On Thu, 9/11/08, Mike Griffin <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Mike Griffin <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [GeoStL] Poison Ivy
> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 3:13 PM
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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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