[Magdalen] Poison ivy question

[Ann Markle]

The first summer I lived in Tennessee I got a really, really bad case from
working in the overgrown, unkempt gardens around the rectory. Hideously
swollen all up my arms and beyond. After that I learned to shower
immediately after gardening, and I never got a case that bad again. Someone
also referred me to a pharmacy that made their own super-duper poison ivy
and insect bite lotion. Whenever I got even one little teeny bump, I
slathered it over and over with the magic tonic, which did its job. I’m
really better off being a city girl, I guess.

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 10:19 AM Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've never had a reaction to poison ivy either, but give the stuff a wide
> berth anyhow. S/O is allergic and very wary of the stuff while mowing, etc.
> Wears long sleeves and gloves and the whole works, but manages to cross
> paths with a bit somewhere, somehow, every summer.
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 9:39 AM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> > Another way of getting a heavy dose of sap unwittingly is to mow PI with
> a
> > power mower.Without realizing the danger, one can suffer generalized
> > exposure via the pulverized grassdebris.  This is one of those times
> when a
> > timely hot shower and lots of soap (doesn'thave to be Fels Naptha!) can
> > save the day after the mowing is completed.  Early onthe sap is
> removable,
> > but wait another day, and the die is cast.
> > In a message dated 9/3/2019 12:09:18 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > houstonklr at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > My grandmother nearly died from inhaling the smoke from burning PI plants
> > back in the 20th C teens.
> > Lynn
> >
>
-- 
Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
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