Re: Immune to Poison ivy

<< Of course many people (something like 33% of the population, myself 
 included) are immune to poison ivy.  Try and find somebody like that to do 
 the pulling. Others only react after several exposures. Remember not to burn 
 the vines you pull as the airborne oil can cause a reaction. >>

===>Bob, don't get too cocky about this immunity.  I had the immunity too for 
about 48 years.  Then in the 49th year I pulled some PI barehanded like 
always and got a small rash.  I'm a little more cautious today.  It seems 
that if I wash up soon after exposure I'm OK.  Immunities and allergies 
change as we age.  As a side note, when I was about 8 or 10, my grandfather, 
who was a real character,  told someone that he had heard that if you eat 
some poison ivy leaves you'll become immune to it.  He didn't know my little 
ears were listening and you can guess what I ran into the woods and did the 
very next day!  Good thing I was already immune.

There also seem to be seasons in which the PI is not as infectious.  I think 
spring is one of them.
Bill Lee 

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