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By Rexe from Junction City, Arkansas
Editor's Note: Warning! Eating poison ivy can be very dangerous and can cause shock and severe breathing problems. Advice similar to Rexe's can be found all over the internet and in some cases, this may be an effective way to increase your immunity to poison ivy. But I would strongly recommend against trying this approach.
By
09/30/2011
I tried eating a small leaf when I was 11. I ended up in the hospital 2 days later. My eyes were swollen shut, I could not eat or drink and I was "swollen" so much from the poison ivy rash over my entire body, no one recognized me for more than a week.I am 64 years old and it is a "nightmare" I will never forget! I am still highly allergic so I am extremely careful.
By
04/27/2010
My 2 children who are ages 12 and 10 and myself always had bad break outs to poison ivy. Blistering, oozing, all over our arms legs face stomach. I got really tired of this irritating rash year after year after year. So we tried eating it. We started with one young tender leaf picked in the spring. We would eat 1 leaf for 3 days, then eat 2 leafs for 3 days then 3 leafs for 7 days.
I am not telling anyone to eat poison ivy but I will tell you this - we have not had a break out since! We do this yearly as a booster. We use gloves and place it in our mouths without touching lips or skin. Once in the mouth we just chew it like eating a salad and wash it down with some water. Get a toothpick to get the green out of our teeth and that is it. It doesn't taste bad and we don't break out anymore. We work clearing our land and can touch the vines with no problem. Think of other immunizations we get from dr's. It works kinda the same way. And I don't miss the break outs!
By
05/06/2009
This is an example of homeopathics taken to a dangerous extreme. With a hompathic, the remedy is taken in an extremely dilute form; normally one part of the remedy to around 1,000,000,000,000 parts of water. Chewing on a poison ivy leaf is a recipe for disaster and not a true homeopathic because it's not diluted. This could kill someone who is highly allergic to poison ivy as I am.
By Tooz (Guest Post)
10/24/2008
Do not even think of doing this! My husband's aunt used to say she was immune to poison ivy, that she could even eat it and it wouldn't bother her. She did it on a dare, and was sick for weeks. She was fortunate to live.
By
10/23/2008
Along the same lines, some health food stores carry a brand of teeny sugary pills that have a minuscule amount of poison ivy extract that seems to be safe. All the local landscapers and park service people around here use them to make them immune to poison ivy. A good friend told me about it a few years ago and it's worked for me on the seasons I remember to use it. I think it's about $8.95 a bottle, but the bottle of teensy pills lasts for months. I'm so allergic to poison ivy that I'd be terrified of eating a leaf, but I've never had any problem with the little pills and I'm taking them again this year. Still, if we touch poison ivy and know it, we wash in Dawn Foaming dish liquid and that removes the oil. It seems to work as well as the ivy remover from Walmart. Before I started the pills again, I got blistered from ivy a little higher up than I washed on my arm. Now I tell people to take the Dawn pump bottle into the shower instead of the sink, lol...
By Jazzylazzy (Guest Post)
10/23/2008
Please do not try this. One of my dear friends was on a camping trip and one of the scouts put poison ivy into the food not knowing what it was. 17 people had to be rushed to the hospital with severe breathing problems and shock. Her reaction was so severe that she can no longer be outdoors if there is any poison ivy near her.
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