How to Identify Poison Ivy from Lookalikes - Vlog 021
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2019
- If you work outside pretty much anywhere in the eastern and central part of the United States-you may come hand-to-leaf with the dreaded poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans). The only challenge, however, is accurately identifying it because there are A LOT of poison ivy lookalikes-and you don't want to be pulling out a perfectly good plant that is harmless.
I decided to do this Vlog episode largely because I had quite a few poison ivy lookalikes growing right next to one another in the community garden. So I hope you find this useful!
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If you get into poison ivy, use a washcloth and Dawn dish detergent and wash/rinse 3 times. It is important to use a wash cloth or any type of rag. You need it to remove the oil from the ivy that gets on your skin. You'll probably never break out in a rash.
Yep, just imagine you're washing paint off of your hands (body) or auto grease. It's not so much in the type of soap you use, it's all about the rag and getting that crap off of you within no more than 2-5 hours or so after coming in contact. Sooner the better. And yes, 100%. You should wash yourself 3x over with an abrasive wash cloth (or loofa) and make sure those oils are off especially between fingers, forearms, and other harder to reach areas. I personally always start and end with 70%+ isopropyl alcohol and it seems to work for me. It is true, your bodies natural oils apparently do protect you, however not well enough as a lot of people break out from this crap just by walking by it, not even touching it. So those "protective" natural skin oils are a fail in my book therefore I personally would put my trust in alcohol instead as it kills, disinfests and dehydrates which is all the properties that seem to put the oils and rash at bay
I wouldn't compost PI as the oils can remain and can pass on to a person using the compost. I would wash my skin with Dawn dish-washing soap and use a washcloth to rid my skin of any urushiol. Simple rinsing will not due.
exactly my thoughts 👍
If it's a hot composting setup it's fine, Urushiol breaks down in hot compost. If it's a slow compost system aka no turn, absolutely trash it otherwise that oil will stick around.
~ Do. *
thank you !
You also need to clean the shovel handle that you touched switch your glove. The oil can last on their for months.
Years
@@thisguyfromyoutubesaid1537 Agreed. Years ago I was pulling up "weeds" around my mother's gravestone and had no clue that some, or most, of it was PI. I used my pocket tool to cut some of the thicker stems cuz I couldn't pull them out. A few days later I had rashes all over my hands & arms. Between the fingers is a real bitch.
I ended up cleaning my pocket tool as well, but some of that oil must have gotten onto/into the leather belt holder. For at least 2 or 3 years, whenever I used that tool I'd occasionally get a spot or 2 of PI-rash on a finger or 2. I'd even occasionally get a bit on my side, where the belt holder touched me when I bent or sat down. Nasty stuff.
@@jdsnaps3167 yeah its bad you gotta wash everything you touch. Soap doesnt really do that much you can just use water but you have to scrub hard with a wash cloth
Watch the video, she didn't touch the shovel handle with the black glove but use her gloved right hand and the crook of her left elbow.
@@ezez6916 but she just earlier reached down with the yellow glove to pull the stubborn section of pi. Then she walked over and contaminated the shovel handle.
when weeding poison ivy a sleeveless tank top and exposed midriff can only help.....
I thought the same, ha!
Obviously I would die, but using tomb raider logic, she is invulnerable.
🤣🤣🤣
To be fair... As dumb as this is. It's the reason we are here for this video. I could care less for poison Ivy. The info was just in interesting bonus at this point, i'm just being honest. No one came to be educated... Everyone just left educated... & somewhat disappointed. Haha
I kept thinking that the entire time!
Great video! You provide excellent identification information. One small quibble: The pinnately compound leaflets of the box elder are oppositely arranged. To be alternately arranged, one leaflet would be higher on the stem than the one across from it.
Wish this was higher up! This video is full of great info, but there's a few instances where opposite branching is being referred to as alternate, when that's not the case. It could lead to some incorrect IDs when out in nature or learning from other sources if you have that backwards
There are several issues in this video that scare me as someone very allergic to poison ivy. I hope she takes the video down and corrects the inaccuracies.
Great video but you need to wash with soap and a wash cloth to get friction to remove the oil. Do so within 2 -4hours.
sleeves LOL
@@patricksolomon1923 And- Don't touch your face either. She did it twice.
Absolutely!
I’ve also found many automotive degreasers will also remove the oil from your skin easily. Brake cleaner, carburetor cleaner, Super Clean degreaser, Dawn dish soap, etc. also double or triple wash these affected areas of your skin.
It’s also important to note to first rinse your skin off with cool water to help contract the pores in your skin before washing to avoid having more oil/sap enter the pores of you skin and only use cold water to wash as well.
If you could "see" the oily residue of poison ivy, it would resemble that of axle grease and is as hard to remove. Use plenty of friction to remove and instead of soap and water, I use a good shop degreaser like go-jo.
Great video Summer!!
This is the first and only reference I have found that truly helps me identify poison ivy. Thank you so much for this well done and informative video!
One thing many people have never seen before, and it took many years of my life before I did for the first time- is a patch of PI, or one plant that remains undisturbed for so many years, that it can climb up a large tree and extend down and over the ends of the tree's branches...Sometimes both the vine and the trees leaves can be about the same size and shape. So I was casually looking at this large specimen tree behind a house I had recently become the groundskeeper for, and trying to identify it...Oh that's interesting, I thought, a middle of summer FRUITING tree as well- this should be easy....THEN IT DAWNED ON ME ALL AT ONCE- OH HELL NO, THATS NOT TREE FRUIT- THATS POISON IVY FRUIT! It never even occurred to me in all my years of dealing with this demon plant - that PI actually FLOWERS AND PRODUCES HANGING FRUIT if it can get big enough and grow in a place it is happy enough! I WAS TERRIFIED when I had gazed upon with my own eyes THE MOTHER OF ALL PI PLANTS- THE SUPER SPREADER QUEEN MOTHER OF MANY GENERATIONS- and the cause of countless cases of pain and agony for so many unsuspecting human life forms! The vine was so well developed it was GRACEFULLY TERRIFYING to me!!! How does this story end? About a month later, after mustering up enough courage bit by bit since that day, covered with cloths to the nines, at the very end of my work day, with ax and saw, I cut that MONSTER BITCH across at its two foot wide base (about 4 large vines and many smaller ones, clumped) like Sigourney Weaver did to the MOTHER ALIEN at the end of the second or third sequal! THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE! Went home and showered. Now it is recorded here, on UA-cam, for all posterity! Thank you for reading.
That bunch of P.I. vines measured over 2 feet? WTF?!! That's creepy. They say "God works in mysterious ways", but c'mon.... 😯🌳🍃🌳🍃🌳🍃
We had several very large vines growing up trees at work and I cut around 130 vines with a pole chainsaw !
If you have large vines then likely there is also urushiol oil in the soil. The plant may be removed yet nasty Urishol remains for many years.
@@echospaw899 The circumference of 4 large PI vines could be over 2 feet. I have two vines the measure together about 5 inch diameter or about a foot circumference. Tarzan can hold it if wants, not me.
Thank you for your service. Your description of that scourge is nightmare fuel.
I'm quite allergic to poison ivy. I had to wash with soap and a wash cloth after watching this video.
😅
I didn’t know what poison ivy actually looked like so this is great!!
Omg I would be wearing long sleeves and long pants ☠️
i would just move out
@@buttcheeksguy nice name
Then She wouldn’t get as many “Likes”
Same
She's obviously not allergic and doesn't react to pi. I'm not allergic; I have no reaction to pi. However, my husband is very allergic.
Don't even compost it. The oil can remain viable for long time. Bag it up and put it in the trash.
I would bag it and trash it as well.
Growing up in SC, I ran through poison ivy, oak, and sumac many times as a kid. Once, poison ivy spread into my eye and I had to get an injection (in my butt, ouch!). My husband can touch it and gets no reaction at all! “Leaves of 3, let them be” was what I was taught as a child, but as you showed in this video - there are quite a few that look similar. I always looks for the 3 leaves first, then for a reddish stem, and also for the small, younger leaves to look waxy and reddish. Poison Ivy also tends to grow upward instead of crawling like an ivy. It’s the oils that cause irritation and it spreads easily over clothing too. Can’t stand the stuff!
Thank you!😊 Better info than the video.
**Box Elder also has a reddish stem and the smaller leaves are have hints of red and shiny.**
Nice video. But words of advice for after you had contact: Wash thoroughly with soap and plenty of friction (i.e. using a wash cloth) within an hour. Urishiol has a high adhesion to your skin (similar to grease) and will not be washed away just by letting water run over it. Make sure not to touch yourself anywhere until you washed your hands. If you pull vines wear long sleeves because it will be really hard to avoid it touching your arms when you pull. Wash your clothes and any part of tools that you touched, same for anything you touched before washing your hands like door handles. Urishiol has a long half life time and can easily be spread even weeks after original contact. It's quite common to see rashes miracoulously spread days after exposure which is caused by secondary exposure.
The roots actually have more oil (urushiol) on them so be careful. Also, this is the first time I've seen someone compost PI. All others say dispose of due to its poisonous oils (I would NOT compost but instead double bag and put with trash). DO NOT BURN as the oils can enter your lungs! You must also make sure to wash off all your garden tools (she used the shovel) as the oil can live up to five years on objects. I am super susceptible to PI but the rest of my fam is not so they usually remove it for me. Don't touch your face or any part of your skin that is unprotected. Wash with a washcloth and Dawn or mineral spirits to remove the oils as they "stick" to you like glue and you may not see them. Remove all clothing inside out (as tho you would when removing gloves) and wash separately in detergent/hot water. Be careful with your shoes as well if using your feet to pull out roots. Good luck to all with this demon plant.
I am so HERE for poison Ivy IDing. This is amazing. Thank you, Summer!
The roots also have the oil (urushiol). I got a bad case one time because I moved some plants in the very early spring even before anything was leafed out. That taught me not to hug a root ball!
My yard in NC is full of poison ivy, as are the surrounding woods. I've got TONS of the stuff. Planning on trying to eradicate it this fall. The foliage turns bright red in the fall, and a local horticulture expert advised me to (very carefully) "paint" the leaves with a chemical weed killer at the first sign of its changing colors. At this point, the plant, preparing to go dormant for the winter, is drawing the energy from its leaves into the roots. Coating the leaves at this time ensures that it too is drawn into the roots so you kill the whole plant. He said that using chemicals at any other time of the year is ineffective as only the leaves are killed and the plant just produces new foliage. This is the one plant I'll (very carefully) use chemicals on.
How did it go?
@@jessicafrotto4547 It worked well in the places I did it but we have so much poison ivy, it was taking so much time.
That was a very tiny glove.
Ashley Burgamy She is tall so most likely she has big hands.
@Jax Man OJ used the wrong size too.
I wonder if she got the rash after this video. She wasn't as careful as she needed to be. I've learned the hard way how careful you must be. Dawn and a wash cloth to wash it off.
I was thinking the same thing. She wasn't exactly dressed for the occasion, was she?
I'll tell you what though - this is the first vid I've ever seen of hers and I'm impressed - she really knows her shit.
Always COLD WATER.. apply dawn as it is getle to skin but oil n grease it's excellent. I lilet it sit for a minute then ultra cold water rinse. Cold water is imporat after the soap as the soap removes or break the oils down and lifts it up then CD ware closed the pores behind which limits exposure If sensitive to poison ivy Reapplying several wash rinses will help immensely.
Maybe because she is not super sensitive to it. I have only had one rash from poison, and I work with it pretty often, dressed similar to her, maybe even shorts if that's what I have on when I find some. She wasn't as careful as some need to be, we're all different ☮️
Me and all my sisters aren't allergic to poison ivy, oak, or sumac, but I still like to be able to identify it because I'm always looking around at wild plants whereas most people just don't pay much attention to them.
So cool. I’m not allergic to it either.
Ah so some people can not be allergic to it?
@@misterbobby8913 I’ve even eaten it a few times (being crazy), just to test it out. I didn’t feel any ill effects. 🫣🤣
I went 60 years being immune to poison ivy., Now I have gotten it 3 years in a row!
This was super helpful! I go on forest walks almost daily, and I had been wondering about particular berries growing there. So definitely a game changer! 🌿
When I was young I was indifferent to poison ivy. It never bothered me. But in my 20s- whoa- things chaged; suddenly it was treacherous. Great learning episode here! Thanks!
I've seen people rooting up tons of Virginia Creeper, "Just to be on the safe side"!!!
This was by far the best video I've seen for identifying and distinguishing poison ivy from other plants. I've run across the Boston Ivy before and wondered what it was and now I know. Great job!
For killing the plant, this is one of those rare occasions where I would actually choose to use something like RoundUp. The idea being that RoundUp will kill the plant down to the roots.
Friction and abrasion is the best way to remove urushiol. Simply use water and a rag, paper towel etc etc within 2-8 hours of exposure. Don't forget behind your ears since you used the black glove to push your hair back behind your ear :)
Great video. I got paranoid that the gloves were the shortest ones I've seen in my life. 😅 Thank you for this, I had my first encounter with this remarkable plant. I respect it now that I had to get corticosteroids to fight the rash. 😢
Very informative and important! Thank you for this video.🌿🌿⭐🌿🌿🌿
I had family visiting me in Colorado. Hiked a trail that had a lot of 3 leaf plants but I didn't know how to tell is it was true poison ivy. You very clearly showed how to tell. Super awesome and thanks to the info.
Easiest time to recognize it is in the spring when it starts growing. Its got the maroon type of color and shiny leafs before turning green. It has more oil on it and at that time of year its more potent.
OMG! thank you so much for this video, I have not encountered poison ivy in years, there is a little poem that I know of, "leaves of three let them be", this was a very interesting video and I really appreciate the information. Thank you Summer for sharing this video, bye for now.
Thanks. Best video showing how to id PI!
When I was a kid I could literally roll around in poison ivy with no ill effects. I gradually became more ‘sensitive ‘ to it as I aged.
yeah that's what it does
I simply love all your videos. The educational material behind it is exactly what I need as I'm quite new to planting. When able to financially I will take your Master Class. ❤
Great video and you use a lot of the correct terminology, but you keep using the word, "alternate," when you should be saying, "opposite." Alternate actually means each leaf originates at one node and "alternates" down the stem. "Opposite," means the leaves are opposite each other and originate at one node, like Box Elder.
Yes I was hoping someone pointed this out. In ffact, poison ivy leaves (which each consist of 3 leaflets) ARE alternate, whereas box elder leaves are opposite, which is a consistent way to tell the two plants apart.
Hi Sumer! This video was very helpful. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much for this. I never knew about the longer stem, quite helpful.
thank you SO much for this video!! I found some young box alder in my yard and couldn't tell if it was poison ivy or not, and this helped immensely.
Loved how informative this video was. I learned so much and I feel like I can actually id poison ivy with confidence now. Thank you!
Virginia creeper can cause an irritation to some people as well. Poison ivy also has a very hairy stem when it grows on the trunks of trees and in the fall the leaves turn a brilliant red. You can also make a salt water solution to kill poison ivy. Two cups salt to 1/2 gallon of water and a few drops dish soap put in a spray bottle. Hope this helps.
Best tutorial on poison ivy that I have ever seen. Thank you so much 💓
Thank you so much for this video! I've just been going by "Leaves of 3, leave be"😅 My husband has been clearing decades old poison ivy around our new home. You can actually count the rings on them😵 We also added a bird feeder🤞🏻
...and the bird feeder you added does what again for the poison ivy ?
My grandmother made a tea from the roots of Poke Salad plants. I rubbed it on my poison ivy rash, it cleared up overnight and I have never broken out since.
Going to change into long pants, long sleeves and gloves. I’ve got seven clumps I need to pull up! Thanks for the motivation. I’ve been avoiding it all summer!
I've been able to identify poison ivy since I was a kid, and don't have any growing in my yard, but I get a rash every spring/summer. I finally realized that I am allergic to my five fig trees. I have to wear gloves and long sleeves whenever pruning or harvesting.
Thank you!! This is very helpful. Those lookalikes are so confusing.
*Cold* water and soap, followed by a thorough wipe with a shop towel soaked with rubbing alcohol. Wash very, very thoroughly. Please use soap! And don’t use hot water as it opens your pores up to the urushiol.
Very helpful and informative. Thank you so much. 💚💚💚
Some people are allergic to Virginia creeper and can react the same way as with poison oak or poison ivy.
Raises hand.
Yep I've seen it happen and it was just as awful!
The poison ivy is sentient. It has now evolved to mimic Virginia Creeper entirely. It's next form is a giant fly trap. It will engulf the world. our only hope will be a small team sent to populate Mars, with hopes that the giant poison fly trap hive-mind doesn't find a way to follow us... It will.
Wonder if it will eat Audrey first ;)
Great video. Just don't forget to thoroughly wash the shovel! Oils can remain on it for years.
This was super helpful. Thank you.
Actually I have found through much experience that the hand cleaner auto mechanics use, comes in an Orange bottle, that it works great at cleaning up after coming in contact with poisonous plants.
It's the friction from the pumice and degreasing property of the citrus that removes the poisonous sap!
Very informative, thank you very much!
I really hate the outdoors but thanks to your video here I know my enemy a little better, and may in time learn the good things about plants and gardening.
Very good explanation here and I'm curious what else I can learn from your channel.
Thank you so very much, now i'm more confident in my current explorations.
I’m so severely allergic to poison ivy that if it’s in or near my yard and has three leaves, it must go. I can’t risk getting a closer look - but you are welcome to come over anytime and differentiate for me! Thank you for this very informative video.
Thanks for providing comparisons with other growing plants; I didn’t know Boston Ivy and that tree looked so similar to poison ivy. I’m super allergic to p.i. so a simple rinse with water would just be asking for a bad, oozing, itchy rash. It is now a habit that if I think there is a chance that I touched p.i. I shower with dawn…twice…in cool temp water. Also, she kinda stepped on the root of the ivy, so I’d probably not let those shoes in my house. Lastly, if I KNOW I’m gonna be around poison ivy (to pull it out), I’m wearing long disposable gloves and throwaway clothes and/or a hazmat suit! A sleeveless cutoff shirt would be too risky since those long roots are unwieldy when handling. 😬
Very interesting. I never learned how to spot poison ivy because I never had a reaction. Of course, I have probably spread the oil all over the place. How many people are non-symptomatic like me?
o/ here. heheh
I get very minor reaction to it if any. Virginia creeper makes me itch tho.
Thank you thank you thank you so much for showing the differences!
Thanks. I've always looked for the notch on one side of the leaf.
This was awesome..
Thank you for this. I have a few different types of Ivy 🌿 growing in my yard, and I was clueless.
I'm sorry to hear you're on this journey battling poison ivy. I, unfortunately, was gifted some phlox by a friend and in it was a tiny weed which I pulled and it broke off. So I figured I'd get it when it re-grew. Its roots were bound up with the roots of the phlox. As you can guess the little gift was poison ivy. It took over that entire section of bed in one season. For the next four years I would get down on hands and knees and hand pull it, making sure I got every single teeny tiny piece of root because even a sliver of root left behind will start the process over again.
It's been 10 years now and I have not been able to get rid of it. Twice I've pulled out my beautiful perennials and tossed them out. Last year being physically incapacitated I tried Roundup for Poison Ivy-- this I avoided doing for 10 years. It did kill the plants above ground but the following spring the roots regrew plants. All I've managed this year due to disability is to cut off the flower heads to prevent seeds, which I've done every year.
So the issue is the spread by roots. The battle continues.
Why not just rip out the soil and replace it?
I got the same "gift" in a hydrangea bush. The hydrangea leaves are definitely a "look a like" to poison ivy, so I can understand the mistake, but it doesn't make removing the new ivy plants every spring any easier. I have gotten better at treating it. Forget the Calamine and go straight for the prescription steroid cream
@@stevenkozicki943 agreed, calamine does nothing. I've had such bad reactions from poison ivy that on two occasions the only thing that helped was prednisone, taken orally, in addition to the prescription cream.
Outstanding
Looks professional!
I wouldn't put it in the compost.
I thought just brushing up against it could cause a transfer of the oil, not necessarily having sap coming out (that's how our poison oak works)...?
Don't let it touch your tools or clothes or pets, etc.!
Thank you for your information.
Thank you! That was really helpful!
I came for the excellent info about the plants, but then HOLY COW LOOK AT ALL THAT MYCELIUM!! Nice soil building there!
thank you for the Video,,, i was having a problem Identifying a plant that looks like Poison Ivy, and your Video helped , i have allot of Box Elder trees growing in my yard
Thank you for this video!
Great information! Thank you!!
If you are not sure if Box Elder Maple is okay, just pull it up, Box Elder is a very weedy tree that should be pulled up anyway.
Your name🥰 Never seen one of your videos before. Thanks for your knowledge!! FYI, there is a Virginia Creeper hiking and biking trail in southeast Virginia 👍 Keep up the good work, ma'am!!
Thank you for the excellent detail lesson. I finally know the real poison ivy and how to deal with it.
LOL, y'all should come in Texas! poison ivy is everywhere and you get pretty immune to it thru exposure unless you cuddle it. The Hazmat suits made me break out into a fit a laughter, y'all New Yorkers are hilarious! Lololololol!
Use Jewelweed if you do get it, its poison ivy's companion plant, it helps clear the urshiol and heal the skin.
Cheers lol!
I remember some say (in outdoor survival guides) some are immuned to the poison ivy while some have various degrees of allergic reactions; the usual rash, etc.
Absolutely!
So many contradictory information by so called experts I can hardly listen to them anymore. Ie; one does not become immune each time one gets the rash it gets worse, depending on ones immune system,like a wasp or hornet sting. Water will not wash it off, it’s like grease and takes a degreasing agent. Another one, poison ivy, poison oak , poison sumac do not grow in the same climates. I have no idea who or what tp believe, especially if the experts can’t agree. What I do; or have done, wear apparel that covers as much skin as possible. Even helmets and face shield. Long gloves that tuck over a long sleeve shirt. When I remember I lightly coat my arms hands ,ankles and neck with a degreaser either automotive had cleaner/degreaser. Or strong degreasing dish soap. Before I go clearing land, chainsaw and hand pulling vines etc., be extra careful when removing attire and bag them. Using a Luke warm wash cloth (disposable) I carefully clean up the areas I had used degreaser on then take a Luke warm shower , yes I’m highly sensitive to poison ivy, I have burned piles of it and have known old timers who burnt it also and tho doing ones best to not breath it in, we all have breathed in the smoke and still alive and never once became ill in the slightest. Don’t take anything written above as gospel , cause I still get the occasional breakout mostly in spring when I’m so happy to be out that I forget my own routine.
I am trying to learn to identify poison Ivy as I am in the woods a lot doing photography. I think I might make it a photography project and take some pictures of suspected poison ivy and compare with known poison ivy. There are so many different plants out there that look like the real stuff, it's confusing in the woods. Thankyou for the video, it's very helpful.
Thanks, this was extremely helpful!!!!!
Thank you for this post, I moved from California to Tennessee and I thought this plant growing near my porch was poison ivy .but after watching your amazing video I noticed this plant has five leaves.
The leaves of the Box Elder are opposite. The compound leaves of Poison Ivy are alternate--not directly across from each other.
This was SO helpful. I was pulling up saplings but then I worried it was poison ivy. My original intuition was right! They were ash leaf maples. PHEW
This is by far the most comprehensive video on identifying Poison Ivy and look alike plants. Thank you!
Summer Rayne Oakes is an awesome name. I can see having hippy parents name you Summer Rayne, but having "Oakes" as your surname is worth major bonus points.
Also, don't use such tiny gloves when handling poison ivy. The leaves tend to flop around especially when you start pulling up the roots, exactly as happened in this video.
This is a great informative video
very good information. thanks.
*Beginning of video*
"Black Glove is pulling poison ivy"
>Uses black glove to push back hair.
Me: 😳
@Jaye3rd89 Yeah, at 1:55. But I think she was talking about what the black glove is for, that is, what she intended to do. After all, she handled the glove.
But it does show that habits are hard to break!
Well done. BTW, you touched your hair, too. LOL! Just sayin'. Thanks for sharing this info, I appreciate it. 🌳🍃🌳🍃🌳🍃🌳🍃🌳🍃🌳
I know, late comment, but one thing I picked out within 2 minutes. She used her black glove to move her hair.
Awesome video.
I think i have all of this in my back yard. Stuff keeps coming back and poison ivy took over the pine tree i have in the back. This video is helpful.
1:44 thanks for showing the white berries that can also help identify the plant.
Beautiful
DO NOT TRY THIS ATHOME! If you happen to be VERY allergic to the stuff, like I am, you would never try pulling that stuff out with itty bitty thin gloves like she has on...If it would happen to get a rip in it-you will get the oils on you in a sec....Not only that, but I would never go near the stuff without covering on my whole arm because you cant really tell if part of a leave might actually touch you farther up your arm-like it might just BARELY brush against you and you didnt see it-and you could get a heck of a case of the poison ivy rash! I think now that I am alot older and have had so many PI rashes throughout my life, I may be less allergic to it than when I was young- if building up a tolerance for it is even possible-but consider this-I actually believe I have gotten it before just by being CLOSE to the stuff- like maybe the DUST that could blow off its leaves landed on me and gave me a case of the bad rashes! And I know for a fact if your cat or dog travels through it and comes home with it on its fur and you pet it-i've gotten bad rashes on my FINGERS before from that-AND THATS THE WORST! thats how dangerous these plants are!
Wonderful....
I’ve been getting poison Ivy for many years since I was a kid in the early 70s but I still have trouble identifying it. I’m suffering from a rash of it right now, too. This was very helpful. Thank you. I still am not sure where I got it from.
Thank you!👍
Oil/grease fighting soap can be excellent for getting the poison ivy oil off of you. Treat the affected areas the same way you would if you got heavy motor oil or grease on you. You have to soap and scrub hard to get it all off.
This episode gave me the creeps... they look so normal ☠️ thank you for this helpful info, definitely sharing it to my friends
Amazing video ❤ Thank you 🙏
Thank you!
It is easy to transfer the greasy oils of this plant to garden tools, such as hoes, rakes, shovels and even the rim of your composter. Better to trash it than attempt to compost. These oils can survive 6 months on cross-contaminated tool handles. These should be scrubbed down as well. Sunlight soap works wonders on poison ivy oils.