How to Get Rid of Poison Ivy

MikesBackyardNu... - How to get rid of poison ivy.

[@severenkoski856]

I cut the "trunk" of the vine, drilled a hole in it, stuffed it with cotton, and poured ivy killer down it every few days. Ivy never sprouted back after that Summer. Its been 3 years.

[@joeydelrio]

i want to use the following to kill PI: 1 cup salt 8 drops liquid detergent 1 gallon vinegar will this mix do much damage to the trees?

[@ginger.rootable4693]

How can I rid my property of Jewel weed? I hate the stuff.

[@brad9033]

About exposure to poison ivy -- the best advice I got is consistent with my experience. You have 20 minutes after exposure to wash with soap and water. If I do break out, the rash is a chemical burn, and aloe vera helped me with the discomfort much better than calamine lotion or other over the counter remedies.

[@jeffgriffith7003]

That’s how ended the poison ivy vines at my workplace, went out one hot august day, fully dressed with a pole chainsaw and cut over 130 poison ivy vines growing up trees!! Every once in a while I discover I missed a vine but its much more manageable now. Some vines were 3+ inches in diameter and went about 70 feet up some trees.

[@hcselevatorliftservices6899]

You don't need a harsh detergent Mike. Dawn soap breaks down the oil very well. You just need to scrub well with it in a cold/cool shower. A hot shower will allow the oil to absorb more readily into your skin. This works for before breakout when you know or think that you've been exposed or after breakout to contain the rash and keep it from spreading. Thanks Mike, good info!

[@danielfantino1714]

Don´t scrub. Be gentle. Would you scrub your skin with sunburn ?

[@atomicsmith]

@@danielfantino1714 Depends when you're talking about. Before breakout the friction is important to get the oil off your skin. After the breakout, yes being gentle when you're cleaning it is probably best.

[@danielfantino1714]

@@atomicsmith thanks Adam. Good to know. It´s springtime and these beasts will saddly come back. Be safe my friend.

[@ludlowfalls8856]

Use Dawn also to clean it off your tools?

[@johnharris8191]

Lacquer thinner will dry up the poison ivy rash real fast.

[@jlgoins64]

you can also get it from the dirt/soil around the roots...

[@darwincortez4242]

i was outside and that happened to me

[@wrigg5006]

Another piece of advice, don't pick up any gloves you find in the woods.

[@marilynmcneal6870]

W Rigg i

[@TruckTaxiMoveIt]

Who would do that?

[@McMillanScottish]

@@TruckTaxiMoveIt - People who have spent all their lives in the city, and who have also gotten “free gloves” off the street without issue could think it wasn’t a bad idea. I’ve gotten free hats and gloves several times from random places. But there’s no poison ivy in downtown Chicago. And a good washing machine will typically take out whatever would have been a problem.

[@Keithphotorama]

Excellent video, straight to the point without all the unnecessary talk that goes on forever like poison ivy.

[@frankenfaq4706]

Vinegar and water bro.. 1:2 ... kills it completely every time. And if you get the oil on you just use any kind of soap but the key is to apply hard friction with a towel. Think of it as cleaning motor oil off of your body. The oil behaves in the same manner

[@Meigosh]

I got poison ivy just watching this video...

[@2Truth4Liberty]

Your comment made me start itching :-0)

[@Meigosh]

I have that effect on people.

[@hidbell5843]

Lol

[@charlottecannon314]

After you severe the vine, you'll need to also cut out about a 5 inch plus away from where you severe that vine. Also, you need to put a good poison ivy and brush killer on that lower section after you cut the vine now. Don't wait until next spring to start on the lower section of that vine. By then it will start re- blooming.

[@evodioeusebiomonterodorant9370]

Cambia tu ropa y no la vuevas a husar. Banate con Agua fria. Evita rascarte lo mas posible. Usa productos de farmacia local. Tecnu products, y un producto de botella rosa. Usa ropa limpia.

[@quaffer22]

Pets and game animals can transmit it to humans, as well. Look for the plant in early fall. It's one the very first plants to 'turn' [orange & red]. Once you've learned to spot it, you'll even notice it beside the road when driving. That is likely the to be the 2nd approach of finding and eradicating it. TECNU [in any pharmacy , is the only thing that works for me] is great for the rash. I hear Jewel Weed may be a natural remedy. Cheers

[@Urbicide]

+quaffer22 Tecnu Extreme works great.

[@swilsonandassociates]

Every year, I get poison ivy or sumac, and it's an itchy, blistery time, for sure. Thank you for this information.

[@rodordie]

I just grab it and pull it off. Bare hand! That stuff doesn't bother me at all for some reason. Thank God. Great video

[@MrDashecky]

Good video - thanks Mike. Can you make a follow up video on how it progressed after the cut?

[@campbell2054]

Deer and goats love the stuff Mike.

[@LauraBethLove]

When I was little and my dad would come inside the house from doing yard work he would always wash his hands & arms right away with fels naptha soap - he told me always to do this if I accidentally touch poison, and it works GREAT, but not only will it remove all the poison oil from your hands but it will really dry out your skin too. You can shred it and use it in the laundry as well.

[@zang9147]

I had good luck cutting the vines in the winter. They were more brittle and I'm guessing there was less oil released in cutting. Some of the vines were extremely thick and I had to cut them with an axe. I used a woodsman helmet with the screen face mask and eyewear to block the flecks of wood. Worked for me.

[@VenezuelaNow]

Zan G worst poison ivy outbreak I've ever had was in the middle of the winter after working in the bush, it was all over my chainsaw gloves and I had no idea

[@Machi74005]

+Zan G I sliced these vines in the winter as well that were going up some nice Walnut trees. I had no idea they were poison ivy until watching this video. I only cut them because I was told vines like that ultimately kill trees. I did not experience any kind of rash. I guess I got very lucky.

[@Urbicide]

+50 Ducks In A Hot Tub If you are going to cut thick poison ivy vines with a chain saw, and are competent with a chain saw, you might try cutting using the top of the bar so that the chips are flung away from you instead of directly towards you. If you are not quite sure, then it is not worth the risk of getting hurt.

[@VenezuelaNow]

Urbicide It was in the middle of winter and I didn't know the vines were poison ivy

[@Urbicide]

50 Ducks In A Hot Tub I bet you will recognize it next time! Any vine that I see attached to a tree with those zillions of tiny roots gets treated by me as if it were poison ivy.

[@rancosteel]

Does it grow randomly or does it need to be planted via other plants unintentionally?

[@LauraLopez-ub4tk]

Thank you, I used this method on my property and it works well. I learned the hard way and dug the roots out and winded up with a very bad case of poison sumac on my face. Never gain.

[@judithparker-proctor446]

As a child I had no reaction to this stuff. However, as an adult I was cleaning it from a small dogwood & a limb smacked me in the face. I broke out in the rash from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet, not an inch of skin that wasn't covered. Ended up in the hospital, took steroids to get it under control & had red blotches on my skin for months to come. The itch was almost unbearable & my legs were scarred from scratching. So I took an "all ivy" injection every year for many years, until they stopped making the serum. Was the only way I could work outdoors. The shot itself was horrible, had to take one every week for a month the first year, then a booster. It felt like being hit with a sledge hammer them my arm would be useless for a couple of hours. Worth it though, sure wish they hadn't stopped making the serum as our new 5 acre yard has a patch from front to back for us to battle.

[@rcat32]

I got rid of a lot of poison ivy by dressing in a rubber raincoat n pants n gloves and pulling up poison ivy roots as well as snipping it and carefully stuffing it in contractor bags for the landfill. That got rid of it! My cats had been getting it on their fur and infected me and my home I figured, so I removed it from my neighbors yard too! Normally I compost greenery or leave it to return to the Earth but not this horrible vine! Japanese knotweed is awful too but edible.

[@stationmaster12]

Thank you!!! I HATE poison ivy. I got it and it messed me up real bad!!

[@shaykay3075]

I went in my back yard and on every tree it had a lot of hairy thick vines, also in the trees were lots of vines ,I just cut them and pulled them off, it took a week to do it. I pulled tons of vines out of the ground and in the trees. At the time i had no idea what it was until my landlord saw what i was doing and told me he avoided it because he was so allergic that he can be put in the hospital, Thank God i am one of the 15 or so percent that does not get it.He asked did i ever hear, 'Leaves of three, let it be' ..I may have but never paid attention i guess. Also found poison oak back there, again i am not affected, This is my 3rd year doing this, i got 90% gone, It was so thick back in the woods that we could barley see past a certain point.So far my grandkids have not gotten it, my son was the only one of my kids that ever had it, my girls [3] never got it, my husband did. Is it by chance in ones DNA that gets it? But to be safe i bathe my grandkids and wash them with a wash cloth 3 times really good when they go back there with me. My oldest grandson told me he learned that in school so that is what i been doing with the young ones. But what i do get really easy is Chiggers.I control a lot of that with a few tablespoons of bleach in my bath water followed by very hot shower scrubbing with baking soda, I got it but not all over like some may, it last over ten days.If you think you may have touched poison ivy, scrub,wash, rinse, with any soap as long as you scrub and rinse with a cloth 3 times, I can bet you will not get it. And i never used anything to cover my body, no gloves and i still wear flip flops, i never liked shoes covering my feet..

[@beebob1279]

I know there's a rhyme about the berries and also the hair. Berries are scary. The hair and a scare. I just don't remember the rhymes anymore

[@photojones1]

GOATS!!!!!! stop all the talking get some goat end of problem

[@1PITIFULDUDE]

Goats eat “everything”😢

[@hoz49]

Your dog can get the oil on their coat. You pet the dog...you break out.

[@avoiceinthedarklorielliot2986]

Mix liquid soap just plain soap with your ivy killer and it will stay on the ivy longer and actually kill it.

[@Zoetropeification]

Liquid dish soap is a great surfactant

[@kaseymarlowe5867]

Oil has went through my clothes for a fact!

[@victoriasmith4208]

did you ever get rid of it, we got a house and it is in all my backyard, I can't stand it

[@beebob1279]

A lot of comments about sumac. That's poison sumac and not the sumac that's more common. A video on Poison Sumac would be good too. Also, show the leaves of these plants for people who may have never seen them

[@mjadams5829]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge about killing poison ivy....

[@ALayne08]

Thanks Mike. I have a question about raspberries. I bought a raspberry plant and as you know they come in pairs. I planted them just as the package said and all was well until the long hot summer hit. I had to mulch heavily and shade them from the sun and still lost one. Now I'm left with something that I don't think is a raspberry plant at all. It has large leaves and long shoots with flowers that fall away and produce nothing. Can you help. Thanks Ann

[@west-virginia-coon-hunting3829]

Thanks for the information, great stuff, keep looking up!

[@peace10ally]

Thanks for posting:)

[@petro062]

Exactly. That is how it is done. And some are big. It can also kill the tree if it chokes it, Wash with soap and a wash cloth no more that 2 hours after messing with. It is said to stay on your tools and clothes 5 years, I do it in the winter when there is no leaves. Less to deal with and is easy to find in the woods.

[@jat1668]

Oddly, I have handled poison ivy and have never been affected by it. Lucky me.

[@swirlytwist8250]

Same thing

[@hugheggs]

jat1668 yes, lucky you. I have it covering my entire face and neck now and am currently the most uncomfortable ive ever been in my life. I wish I wasn't alergic

[@yetslho4068]

jat1668 There are some ppl out there that is not allergic to the oils I am one of them i can. I have looked it up online and some ppl just dont have Allergies to it but its still a good idea to follow the same rule cus u can at any time start becoming allergic to it

[@Urbicide]

+jat1668 I know people who can see it 20' away & get it bad! I used to never get it, but I don't say that anymore, just not as sensitive to it as a lot of others are.

[@sandyralston5814]

You can become allergic to it at anytime.

[@swhatley13111]

How do i contact you? I will send you some powder that I am getting a patent on. rub it on the rash and it drys it up. awesome stuff. 100% natural. Thank you for your video, you would think I was growing this stuff as a crop around here. miles and miles of it. Sweetie cannot keep up.

[@PullStartStables]

I found this channel looking for cuttings information on trees. Now I find myself binge watching everything! Thanks, Mike!

[@yankeejim327]

Thanks Mike as always great info

[@sweetheartsmom]

This video was very helpful!!

[@briancrane7634]

I heard that the oil from even a dead vine is potent for 50 years...also...a product called "Fast Orange" hand cleaner breaks up and neutralizes the oil pretty well...

[@ABCABC-hn1xw]

Darth Vader

[@bevkay4170]

Husband got it when he & our dog went fishing. He got it from the dog sat between his feet after snooping around in the woods and brought it back to my husbandby rubbing his fur on husband exposed legs.When we realized I had him take a very cool shower bc hot will spread the PI oil. Then applied a layer of Caladryl & let air dry completely. The next morning did it again with cool shower only this time I tried something. I read that if you use Clearasil pads for athletes foot it’ll get rid of or keep it in check. You have to file awaythe affected skin if it on the bottom of feet, then spread the Clearasil 4 in 1 or 5 in 1 pad over it at least 2x daily. So I thought, what the heck, how about PI to? I did just that then let it completely absorb into skin by air drying then applied the Caladryl again. Within 36hrs it had dried up and almost gone. The pads have salicylic acid (aspirin) and really think that did the trick. Everyone is different but can only say it worked on my very grateful husband for my idea.

[@ItsyFarm]

Mike, that bark sure looks like a gum tree. I think the gum tree is a bigger problem that the Poison Ivy. Gum tree roots and stumps are virtually indestructible! Now for the good news...your method works very well. It is IMPERATIVE that clothes be washed (several times) with some serious laundry detergent. I understand that the oils in PI are alcohol soluble. I don't think it's a good idea to wash clothes in alcohol . How about dry cleaning? Anyone have any ideas?

[@bxb00t90]

He’s not lyin

[@MrMockingbird1313]

Glyphosate works best in bright sunlight. So I have had success by cutting the vine low and spritzing the wound with Glyphosate. Also, I read a source that claimed that the active oil in the poisen plants stays virolent for ever. It has been found on 200 year old antique tools. So I believe grease cutter soaps like Dawn are you best choice for cleanup.

[@empie45]

My mother always washed with Fels Naptha after dealing with the poison ivy. She rarely got the rash. If she did, she would wash the area with the FN soap again. I do the same, and hve'nt had a problem. Try the soap in a small area, like hands only, in case it's too harsh for your skin.

[@uptownphotography]

Nice video...Do you need to remove a section of vine or can you cut all the way through the vine and leave them next to each other...Thanks............Philip

[@mattekudasai8249]

Uptown Photography but his name is Mike not Philip

[@JTinGR]

+bobzilla saiz rawr Uptown Wedding Photograph NJ's name is Philip. He left his own name at the end of his post.

[@mattekudasai8249]

JTinGR oh

[@angelasheppard7197]

Thank you so much. I am highly allergic too is on ivy. Afraid to even go into my back yard. I had somebody mow back there and do some brush/leaves clean up and the cut something like you are talking about. I didn't realize that was poison ivy. I thought it was the non poisonous ivy. They ended up going to after hours clinic for a shot it was so bad . I felt so bad for them. Now I know how to treat it. This has been a problem for years,even when my in laws had this property. Frustrating

[@rustybird4955]

spray the cuts with a strong glysophte solution immediately after cutting ...problem solved!

[@Jemalacane0]

Get an herbicide with a combination of glyphosate and triclopy. Cut the vine to the ground, the paint the herbicide on top of the stump.

[@dascooker]

Poison ivy does not bother me at all, but Lavender makes me red and itchy like I rolled in fiberglass. soaps and detergents I stay away from unless I read up on them first. Alot of soaps and detergents contain lavender.

[@jimmyt5241]

That really works cutting the vines chest level to the ground , in about 4 months the tree will be blooming and looking happy again . I'm wearing a tyvek suit to protect myself you can get the suit for about 10 dollars at home depot or lowes .

[@JLBeemer]

Thanks for the video Mike I have a whole backyard full of what I think is poison ivy. I am not looking forward to dealing with it. Did cutting the vine help?

[@TruckTaxiMoveIt]

I read a comment at another video that said all you needed to do was to bury a 2 inch chlorine tablet at the base of the Vine and it will kill the Vine

[@cindybee9270]

What do you use to clean the clothes and tools? Just regular laundry detergent and dish soap?

[@JimmyRooney]

Thanks for the video Mike. I just got a case of poison ivy from a bush in our backyard :(

[@DAILEYericCaryUSA]

I hate poison ivy. I will use this information to wipe out the vines in my neighborhood. THANKS.

[@robertbates6057]

What spray will kill it without killing the tree?

[@star_girl235]

I have to say it. It's just like cancer LOL.

[@carenallen5841]

I have been trying to spray and cut down my subdivision fence line 3 springs now it’s {5/19/23} now… and once again I had to go to walk-in clinic… had to get a steroid .vaccine……tablet, prescription of steroids, and a prescription for a special ointment for the skin lesions ….I have a 7ft section to clean out….my yard has been covered with ground and hairy vines must have been growing for many years…they look like grape vines with hair growth..the poison Ivy has intertwined in a chain link fence and a old wood privacy fence..I have paid a neighbor to get the last 7 ft approximately..cleaned out .. poison ivy for those of you who don’t know their root system is called rhizomes that means the mother plant roots can extend out 20 /30 /50 feet from the mother plant and pop up on the other side of your yard. It’s very severe ..and aggressive….if your children or you get it ….so I am poisoning everything I can get my fingers on my side of the fence and I’ll probably have to continue to do that to keep this aggressive plant out of my and under control

[@debibogosian421]

Mike you are wrong!!!!!!!!! it doesn't matter what also you use its all about wash rag and friction 3x!!!

[@debibogosian421]

I meant soap not also

[@redluv777]

Hiya thank's for the video, very informative and I am gonna try cutting the vine this way. In my back yard I was clearing and took my machete chopping into the vine and now I have the itch grrrrr......I didn't sever the line completely and it looks like the Ivy is trying to live again

[@Urbicide]

+Mark O FlowLo You need to squirt the cut vine base with a fairly strong % strength herbicide solution to help kill the root system. This should be done within 5 to 10 minutes of cutting the vine so that the herbicide is drawn down into the root system. The vine may still try to come back, but it will be much weaker. It certainly will come back if you simply just cut the vine and leave it alone, which is silly if you are trying to get rid of it.

[@js357s]

I really appreciate people like you making these kinds videos and sharing your knowledge. Even if I don't get any thumbs up I know I speak for many. Thank you.

[@wallychambe1587]

You need to cut at least a 6" gap on the vines!

[@reginadymersky4891]

Please teach me how to get rid of it and not kill other plants! Urgent! I have cancer and I am super scared it might get into my blood with Lyme also that I have!

[@brandoncruise6398]

Contact your town's or city's official agricultural guru (I can't remember the official name), but they can come remove it for you if necessary. Other than that, wear gloves and long clothes/pants to cover your entire body and make sure to wash them in HOT water right after killing it from the root. You do this by cutting the stem at ground level with shears or pruners and a weed killer containing glyphosate (such as Roundup) or triclopyr (such as Ortho's Brush-B-Gon). For thick, shrubby stems, spray directly onto the cuts you have made to kill it to the root. For tiny ones, just use a shovel.

[@valeriesanchez3074]

I want one as a houseplant 🙃

[@rickstewart9339]

Thanks Mike, that helps a lot.

[@3carats]

Leaves of three let them be! Clean your hands and tools with alcohol!

[@danielfantino1714]

Good idea. No more germ on your full open pores of your skin, and urushiol in them ! Tools ? Since when alcool dissolve oil ?

[@jeelink9187]

this is the guy destroying our planets ground water.

[@alwayslearning4853]

Jewel weed is a natural remedy for poison ivy and poison oak.

[@doggystyle7136]

not what i need to know a need to get it off me

[@NubianQueentv]

Sugar Remix Apple cider vinegar and baking soda... for the next time or next person. Wash and rub down with wash cloth and ACV mixture with vinegar.

[@doggystyle7136]

k thxs

[@empie45]

Sugar Remix try Fels Naptha soap. It's a brown soap, that you wash with warm water-not-hot ! . It has worked for my Mom and me thru the yrs

[@empie45]

Sugar Remix I forgot to mention to wash with warm water NOT hot, which will make it worse.

[@Urbicide]

+Sugar Remix A little late in answering your question, but anyway, there is a company named "tecnu" which makes several different products to scrub your skin with to remove the urushiol oil, which is the bad stuff in poison ivy/oak. I buy the Technu Extreme Poison Ivy Scrub, just to have it on hand. It is sold in all drug stores, outdoor supply places, even Walmart carries it.

[@ChristopherAMacleod]

Thanks! Last year I did try the mix of vinegar and soap and salt, and it obviously kills the leaves, but the poison ivy grew back in the exact same place this year!! So unfortunately, I have to find something that will KILL it! Thanks again for so many tips!!

[@rogermichna718]

Try clorox

[@rogermichna718]

Clorox will dry it up and later you can pull it with a tool but spray the soil again because you will not get all the roots

[@tessajovowels]

thanks, Mike!

[@user-kk4pw2lo1t]

Thank you

[@greatstuffs]

It did help

[@paulpellicci]

thanks...

[@Doomzdayxx]

The oil washes off with a good soap and a scrubbing cloth. Scrubbing (friction) is very important. Don't "worry that you're gonna get it in a few days" just wash properly. Atleast give yourself a fighting chance. Don't be a dummy.

[@danielfantino1714]

Scrubbing cloth is not enough abrasive. Use the coarser sand paper or better a grinder on your skin. You´ll be happy with that urushiol mixed with your blood system ! There is a video on YT. The guy scrub intensively. The result was a disaster. Was with LOW pressure COLD water with dish soap. If you take a shower, don´t use the turbo jet but the gentle rain pressure cold (or the coldest you´ll be comfortable with), soap gently and rinse well. Let dry. No rubbing ! If left over there is it will be minimal. Never Hurt your skin.

[@Doomzdayxx]

@@danielfantino1714 The humor of using a grinder on your skin to remove urushiol is not lost on me. and yes, I agree, if you are a dunce and rub to the point where the skin breaks, that could definitely be a disaster. But warm water and abrasive cloth (or soap such as Lava) is the best way. Treat it as you would to remove schmutz (technical term) that you get on yourself after working on your car. It works. What you suggest is a light measure to take and would probably be ideal for an area with sensitive skin and/or existing damage to skin. you have to use common sense.

[@danielfantino1714]

@@Doomzdayxx on that point i totally agree with you. There is so many variables. Since how long have you been contaminated, did you stay long time under the sun. Is your clothing rubbing your skin. Wich part and extent of the body... I was sarcastic because you know when you must warn people that "caution the coffe is hot"... Thanks for your comment. Greatly appreciated, and be safe with that pesky plant.

[@Doomzdayxx]

@@danielfantino1714 Yeah you be safe too. Watch out for giant hogweed! That shit is NASTY. I have no experience with it luckily. Look it up. Makes ivy/sumac/oak look like a joke

[@intuitlife]

i have a lot of 60x100 full of climbing ivy i am trying to kill, but will not use poison using cardboard and tarp to kill it

[@intuitlife]

ps oils are active for 1 yr

[@zang9147]

You can spray it with a solution of 85% water, 10% bleach and 5% hand soap (not dish washing soap). A couple of applications will put a hurt on it. Try to do the applications when you know it won't rain for a few days. If you don't like the bleach, you can substitute about 20%+ vinegar. Hope this helps.

[@intuitlife]

Zan G cant too many other plants around it that have to stay.. only resort is pull it and smother it.. if i use anything on it , then it will sink in and kill other plants , ty for your reply

[@mattekudasai8249]

1spicytomato well good luck

[@chean58]

Cleaning vinegar 6% , one gallon, dissolve 1 cup of salt in it by heating on stove and add 4 Tablespoons dish soap. Spray onto the leaves of poison ivy and you will see them start to dry up within hours. Might have to repeat as the plant keeps trying to come back but eventually it will work. You can also dump plain salt on it by the handful and it will also kill it but it will take longer.

[@pacuttr1]

My grandmother used to pull it out, bare-handed, with no effects whatsoever. I witnessed this when I was a kid,..I have come across the stuff in the woods numerous times however am not game to see if I have the same protection grandma has because my mother was infected as a young girl....

[@Gorguruga]

joe Might have been a Virginia Creeper or another vine which just looks similar to Poison Ivy?

[@pacuttr1]

Gorguruga Very may have been, but my mother more or less confirmed-at the time and I was just a kid, perhaps they wanted me to stay away from anything that even resembled it for my own good, thanks for the video

[@empie45]

joe my Mom always washed her hands with Fels Naphta soap after yanking out the vines. I do the same, and may get a couple of pop ups,. Then I was again with the soap. Wash the tools you use also . Worth a try.

[@empie45]

The Farm Life When I don't wash with the Fels Naptha soap, i do get the rash. That is why I think the soap works.

[@wrigg5006]

It takes a number of contacts before your immunity is gone. I thought I was totally immune till I was 60 years old. Now I think its as bad as getting skin burned in a fire.

[@thaddeauscaldwell7101]

Good video. Poison ivy doesn't affect me . There's alot on my property. I take walks and walk through it on a daily basis .My kittens play in it and I pet the kittens as they are playing in it . I also pick up the kittens out of the poison ivy . I also pull the poison ivy up by the roots with my bare hands . Even though I'm not alergic to it , I get rid of it just because it's poison ivy . I've thought about posting a few videos on uTube ,where I'm petting the kittens as they play in it and videos of me pulling the poison ivy up with my bare hands. Seriously, poison ivy and poison oak doesn't effect me any and I don't know why . I'm guessing I'm one of the very few that it doesn't effect.

[@DelightfulTrainwreck]

Same here 45 years never had poison ivy, as a kid I'd run through it and hug my brothers afterwards. Recently I've been removing a massive root system. Some of the larger roots I was coiling around my forearms for better leverage to pull with, two days later I had rings around my arms. And it was miserable, although not much of a rash, or extent of the outbreak, it was new to me. The massive amount of urishiol from the male plant combine with the added pressure from wrappin and pulling was enough to penitrate my high tolerance.

[@chean58]

You may not be allergic now but you can develop an allergy the more you are exposed to it. Also, you and the kittens can transmit the oil to furniture and rugs and such where other people can come in contact with it and come down with a case. So I would advise that you avoid it for your own sake as well as the sake of others.

[@thaddeauscaldwell7101]

@@chean58, nah I'm good and so are my kittens. I've got plenty of sense not to touch furniture and etc , before I take a shower( to wash off any oils, etc. ) Besides , I've become very successful in life ,by not taking advice from others and I don't plan on doing it now . Take care

[@batbawls]

Is that sound an interstate or a massive bee hive?

[@tnreb8777]

Maybe a creek or river?

[@lisamedlin96]

I have been using lava soap to wash arms- hands after working in the yard. Seems to wk but I have become hyper aware of how- what I touch while working and then removing tools and my clothing afterwards.

[@marypatterson6149]

Funny.

[@dragon1464]

FYI - Ivy is the ground plant, the Poison Oak is the tree climbing vine.

[@anthonyrobertson7062]

dragon1464 No poison ivy is a vine. If it has no support it will stand up a few feet, and if you have several plants together looks like a bush but will fall over once the main stem gets over five feet long, then just grow along the ground, but often it grows up tree trucks many feet high.

[@anthonyrobertson7062]

When I was a kid our neighbor had a mess. Before she moved in no one bothered with poison ivy that started growing up a huge oak tree in the front yard. By that time at the bottom six feet, it was so thick you couldn't see the trunk and it went far up into the tree. She just decided not to fool with it either. I would cut out poison ivy that grew around our fence a other places on the property, but there was no way I would have ever tackled that mess.

[@cherylweso]

I desensitize myself every year by eating leaves of it.. I start by eating one small leaf on the first day, second day two small leaves and third day three small leaves. Then I eat a leaf or two every two weeks or so. This is no different than consuming goat milk when the goat ate some. I used to get PI so bad I would have to get a dose pack of steroids. No longer, I can still get but it has to be on me longer and reaction is a fraction of what it used to be.

[@rockholiday7344]

Do NOT for any reason consume Poison ivy

[@anthonyrobertson7062]

Cheryl Wesolowski That maybe true, but I doubt it's a good idea that everyone go around eating poison ivy leaves. I just think some people could have a nasty reaction to it doing this. Just better to learn what it looks like and stay away.

[@tnreb8777]

Im glad yoy arent allergic to poison ivy. If you really ate poison ivy & you were allergic, it coulda killed you

[@cherylweso]

Tina Meana in TN I AGREE! That was my husband Jeff that typed on my account! I believe that it works for him because I have lived with him, but I would never do this!!!””

[@Lisa_MS64]

I did this, once, just to see if the plant would die or "root" and keep growing - it died completely, all the way up the tree. This time I'll be more diligent about spraying the remains at the bottom - now AND next spring

[@ColeNalle]

But fire gets rid of poison ivy because fire is pretty strong than poison ivy.

[@ldygzlle1291]

do not burn poison ivy. the smoke infects your lungs.

[@rockholiday7344]

Wrong. I was in a comma for six days after inhaling Poison ivy do NOT burn

[@cassandragarner2958]

Please do NOT BURN POISON IVY!!!

[@sswans9664]

My son can grab poison ivy snatch it out the ground bare handed & it never bother him. Doubt I'm that lucky 🫤