Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for September 10, 2024

his immune system is addicted to coffee on its own right

Whisht, child, away and do what you’re told

Creepy.

You have my sympathy Sir. It seems that I can walk past Poison Ivy or Poison Oak and get it,

Sometimes it’s hard to tell, Adam.

“Leaves of three—let it be!” So—will he be able to work on his “writing gig” covered in calomine lotion?

Delusional mental illness: the lighter side.

My cousin was allergic like that, and she lived in the Willamette Valley of Oregon where poison oak is everywhere! The oils from the leaves would get on their dog as she romped across their 20 acre property, and my cousin would get a rash from petting the dog. And it would get on her kid’s clothes, and she’d get a rash from washing their clothes or hugging them. I was lucky—I could push my way through a poison oak patch of stalks taller than me with no reaction at all (However, I was careful to shower thoroughly afterwards so that the irritating oils went down the drain)

Remember, there is no cure for Poison oak/ivy. It has to run it’s course. All you can do is wash away the plant oils carefully, use care to not spread it to other parts of your body and use something like calamine lotion for itch relief.

I’m fortunate not to be all that allergic…

dude, that’s one heck of a allergic reaction… :{

I had some contact dermatitis last Spring. Not any of the Big Three. Lymph glands got infected, so antibiotics and steroids.

Guess what, Katie! The next time you touch that stuff, your body’s reaction is gonna be on a whole different level.

My late great grandmother was so sensitive to poison ivy that the smoke from a bonfire with a little poison ivy in the brush would cause a rash if she was in the vicinity.

Better get a Doctor to look at that…..

Her name should be poison ivy………

my dad was like that – all he had to do was be in the same vicinity and he’ get it

Just one more reason why you should pay attention to what your father says!

He even adds visual effects to his drama.

Poison ivy can’t be spread from person to person.

Excellent Halloween decoration!

Some people get a reaction from inhaling the spores. Yikes!

I have been exposed once and had no reaction, but I was told by a Forest Ranger that most people do not react on their first exposure. The first exposure is what creates the allergy, so that the next time…

I am the same way!

That used to be me when I was a kid. I could get it from it just blowing in the wind from where it was in the field across the street from our house. After many years of suffering a month or more during the summer and even missing a month of school, I finally went through a series of shots, one each Sat for 4 weeks to give me some immunity and it worked!!

A girl I went to school with would get the rash from poison ivy by walking down wind of it, with no physical contact.