Vax shots like DTP inoculate you similarly - only diff it’s direct into blood stream, not ingested. DTP is not a shot with dead versions of bacteria, but the corresponding toxins.
Umm, I think this is how allergy specialists have been desensitizing people for many decades. “We mock what we don’t understand,” might be appropriate for this thread.
Last time I got poison ivy I needed steroid injections. Looked like bad second degree burns on my arms. So it can be far worse than a rash.
I’ve never had poison ivy or oak. I used to rub it all over when dared by friends as a child. Adults would yell at me not to do that and said my immunity could disappear ar any time. In fact, just today I loaded with my bare hands a bunch of poison oak onto a truck. If I catch it I will update this post.
50 plus years ago when my DH and started dating he was highly allergic to PI. I was not. Now he is not and I am. We both are very careful. We get rid of it wherever we see it on our farm.
Next try antifreeze...
Actually urushiol is an extremely powerful immune modulator. The rash is the manifestation of a delated T cell reaction. Its a veritable immunological firestorm. Urushiol when combined with tumor antigens has been considered as potential, anti cancer immunotherapy as a cutaneous vaccine. Probably not a good idea to desensitize your immune system to urushiol.
Nope. Not doing that.
One way to develop resistance to poison oak is to get stung by poison ivy at the age of 4 or 5.
We had a farm and when I was walking through a field, I brushed up against poison ivy. I had never had a reaction to it but this time I got the oh-so-itchy rash with the liquid filled blisters around one of my ankles. For six months I agonized with the worst bleeding itch I have ever had and finally I sat on the edge of the bathtub and took a handful of sugar and rubbed it against the blisters on my ankle until they bled. I rinsed off, slathered on petroleum jelly and put on socks. Other than the broken skin that had to heal (very minimal) the liquid filled blisters and the rash were gone!!!!
I heard of people who burned poison ivy and inhaled the smoke, leading to severe health issues. I would be very wary of doing the smoothie unless I was at the hospital with an epipen at the ready.
Next he is going to eat bullets to become bullet proof.
Thirty years later, if I get near the stuff or the pets were romping in the stuff and I pet them, I get it bad.
The most common means of exposure is from family pets. Anything with fur seems to be immune to the oils.
He became “TreeMan”.
Now if I can just come up with something funny regarding “Wood”
Jeff Horwitz’s idea for an audition to join the cast of Jackass?
another moron steps up on the soap box...
Hey Dude, why don’t you try that with cyanide?
When they said I wouldn’t believe what happened next, I thought they were going to say his mouth and throat got super itchy and his butt was covered with hives and he was $#itting green blood. That I would not believe. But that he developed immunity? I believe that all day long. It’s not as funny though.