Did you know that you can get poison ivy a 2nd time, not from a plant directly but from the poison ivy oil left in clothes.
I had laundered everything here, but perhaps I had forgotten a pair of pants at the cabin, I'm not sure.
I did, indeed, get it again, in the exact same places on my thigh, so I know it had to be from clothing.
Luckily, I didn't happen upon someone who kicked ass - would have been a bad time for that.
I laundered every pair of pants/slacks again on Monday.
The burning and the nausia was absent this time...just an infernal itch sometimes.
It looked like a giant insect bite, but there was no oozing of yellow pus.
I count myself lucky.
1 comment:
Hi Karen, As you may know the poison ivy rash is caused from a chemical burn. It is likely that the chemicals from the poison ivy that 'burned' you the first time remained in your clothing... burning you again when you put them on for the second time.
Poison Ivy does not grow in Newfoundland, nor is it abundant in the rest of Atlantic Canada, your time on the trail in the east will be free from the poison ivy blues... not too likely to encounter a grisly bear or cougar here either.
See you on the trail!
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