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You can also grow up exploring the woods in an area with a lot of poison oak like me and it just does not react on your skin.
by kayfox 5mo ago
You can also grow up exploring the woods in an area with a lot of poison oak like me and it just does not react on your skin.
- kstrauser 5mo agoA dermatologist friend told me there are people who react to poison ivy, and people who do not yet react to poison ivy. He explained to the effect that repeated exposure tends to sensitize people. Poison ivy/oak/etc. has no effect on them, then one day it does. I grew up playing in woods thick with the stuff and never had a problem. Then I had a hell of a reaction to it in high school, and it’s been cruel to me since then.
- disillusioned 5mo agoThis article in the WSJ was by an author who decided to induce immunity to poison oak by exposure: eating it. It's... quite the journey, evidently, but possible: https://www.wsj.com/style/eat-poison-ivy-oak-immunity-3207ec3c?st=wmZrr1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink https://www.wsj.com/style/eat-poison-ivy-oak-immunity-3207ec...