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Re: plant allergies

> Knowing that people can be sensitized to almost anything, allergies to
> common garden and greenhouse plants is a topic of personal interest.  

You have said it quite so eloquently yourself.  Constant, repeated
exposure over the years to anything can cause an allergy.  Those folks
fortunate enough to *not* have a sensitivity to poison ivy shouldn't
push their luck by handling the plants anyway.  Some people sensitize in
one exposure to a substance; others, millions.  

> And apparently, there are many people are sensitive to the protein primin
> produced by (I think) Primula malacoides.  Or is it P obconica?  

I believe the latter... 'Libre' is supposed to not cause the sensitivity
reaction.

-- 
Amy Moseley Rupp
amyr@austx.tandem.com, Austin, TX, USDA zone 8b, Sunset zone 30
*or* amyr@mpd.tandem.com
Jill O. *Trades, Mistress O. {}
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