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A day later, you get a new rash, just as itchy! The next day you do laundry. The next day, you have MORE poison ivy! Then, a week later you decide to wear those pants again, and putting them on, rub against some of the oil that is on them. Boy is it itchy! The next day you put on your sneakers, touching the laces as you do. A day or so later you get the first rash. Now the oil is on the bottom of your pants and maybe your socks and even on your sneakers or hiking boots. Let me give an example of how this happens: Let’s say you took a hike and unknowingly walked through poison ivy. You do not have to touch the plant to get the rash–you can touch something that has contact with the plant–be it an article of clothing, a dog’s fur, a shoe, a gardening tool, even someone’s hand if the oil is still on it.Īgain, the only way to get the rash associated with poison ivy is through contact with the urushiol oil….īut many will argue with me, saying things like “But I wasn’t even in the woods and I got it! My husband has a rash with weeping blisters–I must have gotten it from the sheets in our bed!” Or ” But I had it on my hand and then the next day got a rash on my leg.” There are MANY, MANY people who will not believe this no matter how many times I say it! The only way to get the rash associated with poison ivy, is through contact with the urushiol oil. The only way to get the itchy rash is to have contact with the oil–called urushiol (pronounced ooh-too-she-all.) This oil is very potent and can remain so for YEARS! This is likely why it seems like the rash is spreading–because the oil was never washed off the source in the first place and continues to cause the itchy rash. Someone who touches you or the rash CAN NOT then get poison ivy themselves!
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If you have a poison ivy rash on your arm, you CANNOT spread it to your leg!īreaking the blisters and then touching another part on your body WILL NOT spread the rash! If you have a poison ivy rash on your arm, can you spread it to your leg? Does breaking the blisters and then touching another part on your body spread the rash? Can someone who touches you or the rash then get poison ivy themselves? poison ivy with virginia creeper
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My mom, and likely MANY others like her, believe strongly–and cannot be convinced otherwise!– that if you get a poison ivy rash in one place on your body that you can spread it to another place, or even another person, by touching the rash when it is wet or oozing. In several places there is some poison ivy and though I know what it looks like and do my best to avoid walking in it, I still got the itchy rash associated with it. I recently had some family in town visiting for a week and spent many hours down by the pond in our front yard.