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> ProTip: Don't burn it. What happens when you do? Toxic?
by onemoresoop 4y ago
> ProTip: Don't burn it.
What happens when you do? Toxic?
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoOh, yeah. Makes mustard gas look like potpourri. I know a couple of landscapers that ended up in the hospital, because a few strands of poison ivy ended up in some brush they were burning (which they shouldn't have been, anyway).
- stirfish 4y agoYou basically get poison ivy (as smoke) in your eyes/hair/lungs/everywhere
- duskwuff 4y ago"Lungs" being the really nasty part. Inhaling smoke from burning poison ivy can be fatal. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35703240/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35703240/
- micahdeath 4y agoSome have swollen up like a balloon after breathing it from someone else burning it a few acres over.
- marymkearney 4y agoHappened to me once. Big public bonfire. Poison ivy rash inside the mouth and down the throat. Hellish. Also if you buy firewood, give it a once-over before tossing it into your firepit, fireplace, or campfire.
- IanCal 4y agoIf I understand correctly the problematic thing is urushiol which can withstand high temperatures. So all you do is fling this extremely horrible stuff into your lungs.
- acdha 4y agoBasically you need an incinerator to actually burn it - otherwise you’re just spreading it airborne. I know someone who had an older relative who did this back in the 1950s — they did a bunch of yard work, and figured they’d burn the waste. It turned out that this was a popular laundry day in the neighborhood when most houses had things drying on the line. After the third or fourth neighbor mentioned the mysterious rash, they realized what they’d done but wisely kept the secret for years.