LOL... me too. Grew up on a farm drinking unpasteurized milk and well water, and all my life I’ve had the dietary habits of a scavenging raccoon. I don’t get shots. I don’t take medicine. I don’t go to doctors unless there’s a visible lump or a protruding bone. Immune system of a tank is what I always say, but I like the “buzzard” remark. My standard joke is that I could probably traipse through a leper colony and come out unscathed. The only thing in the world I’m allergic to, my only Kryptonite is poison ivy. I live in terror of poison ivy, but nothing else seems to touch me.
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’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
I’m a retired RN. Everyone should get a thorough physical every 1-3 years. When I worked on a medical floor, it was common to admit these tough old buzzards, often farmers, who hadn’t seen a doctor in decades, sewed up their own wounds, supposedly “never sick a day of my life” etc., but were now full of cancer. They’re tough alright, never complain, even of things they should, but if they’d just had a physical once in a while, they could have found the disease before it was terminal. And just for the record, I was a nurse for almost 30 years, and I couldn’t count on one hand the doctors I dealt with who were in it for the money. (Not saying you think that, but many people who avoid doctors, do.)
Do u remember mud pies
I can roll around in poison Ivey and not get it unless I have a scratch or cut on me then it gets me at that spot. Used to get it as a kid but not anymore. Odd.