Posted on 09/09/2020 12:05:30 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Is it coincidental that poison ivy is hell on me too? Well, that and Chiggers.
I use alcohol and disposable tissues to rub off the poison ivy poison.
It gets worse for a few hours and is gone the next day.
This may not work for everybody.
I also think all this “cleaning” is to make people feel safer but does bugger all to kill the germs. 2 seconds after some one touches that just sanitized door handle (which is cleaned twice a day), it is “contaminated”.
False security.
“...When I was a little boy in New York City in the 1940s, we swam in the Hudson River and it was filled with raw sewage okay? We swam in raw sewage! You know... to cool off!...”
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Same with my childhood friends and me. For us, it was the Youghiogheny River in western Pennsylvania.
Sterility creates monoculture. A pathogenic monoculture is instantly deadly. Stronger and stronger bacteriacides produce stronger and stronger bacterial blooms. The most dangerous place for infection is hospitals.
Adrian Monk comes to mind.
I am Mr.Monk very-lite.
It drives my wife crazy sometimes.
Which parts of the immune "need practice" and why? What changes with macrophages or neutrophils if the body encounters fewer pathogens? What exactly changes about the behavior, number, or effectiveness of dendritic cells due to a lack of exposure to a given level of pathogens? What changes about the complement system? What T-cells are affected by this and how? Which B-cells?
No, you are not an expert. And your "opinion" differs from observable reality.
It’s not that you’re killing off the “good” bacteria, it’s that you’re providing a natural selection breeding ground to cultivate the “super bugs” that can survive these sterilization procedures.
hahaha
Save water. Eat off dirty dishes.
I just stay on the sidewalk. =)
I loved Monk. I think Tony Shaloub is adorable.
A favorite show of ours. I have the boxed set of DVDs.
I’m the total opposite of you in regards to the poison ivy. I’m allergic to all sorts of other plants, but I am an avid gardener despite this. While I am careful around poison ivy when I see it, I barely break out with it, including when I pull it. Once in a while I will get a blister or a small string of them. I think it’s because I’m allergic to so many other things, but I have no idea. Maybe God just has a sense of humor.
urishiol oil is the culprit
other plants also produce it sometimes in the rinds of their fruit
But he's got the face of an angel and the heart of a lion, dontcha know? (Leaf, this is utterly sincere. I've never been insincere in my life.) :-)
dont worry
if it didn’t inevitably something else you did would
its their nature
Man, I got into some poison oak once and my arms, my legs, my face were covered. It went on for weeks and weeks and wouldn’t heal. It ate away the skin like battery acid and I oozed yellow liquid and blood for three weeks. Finally I went to the emergency room, and I’m telling you, when I cracked off the yellowed, hardened rags I’d wrapped around my arms and legs, the ER doctor and nurse literally stepped back from me like “Whoa.” They put me on steroids and it still took two more weeks before I wasn’t practically hallucinating with out-of-body misery. The scars on my legs were visible for 3 years.
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