On 9/27/2013 12:35 AM, Califbill wrote:
wrote:
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:14:23 -0400, iBoaterer
wrote:
In article ,
says...
They are essentially the same weed.
Nope. They are simply related. Which has NOTHING to do with toxicity.
These plants all belong to the plant genus, toxicodendron and contain
the same toxin urushiol in a similar amount.
You get the rash he same way and you treat it the same way.
Like most things, the people who have it (ivy vs oak) say theirs is
the worst but there is no real difference.
But the plants look different. I have sensitive skin, but like my dad do
not seem to be bothered by poison oak, where as my brother only has to get
near it it seems.
found out I wasn't allergic in the first grade visiting a friend a day
or so after his mom found us wrestling in the "soft bushes"... Neither
of us got it, lucky, we were in there in shorts and tshirts, no shoes
for probably twenty minutes...
Later my dad and I spent a couple weeks pulling it out of trees at a
local museum and burning it. We were fine but we couldn't bring any of
our clothes home to mom....
To this day, I just consider myself allergic anyway... Just in case and
I don't touch the stuff anyway.