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A poison oak rash appears where the contact with the oil occurred. However, it can also form on parts of the body not contacted by the plant. It normally starts as itching and mild irritation and.Poison oak rash is an allergic reaction to the leaves or stems of the western poison oak plant (Toxicodendron diversilobum). The plant looks like a leafy shrub.
Poison oak leaves are almost always in groups of three and can vary from large, flat, matte and green, to small, sharp, shiny and reddish. While the color will vary throughout the year, the leaves always come in threes.Poison oak leaves are solid, with a little of the scalloped oak shape. They hang from the stems in groups of three. If you are wondering about poison oak vs. poison ivy, the latter’s leaves also hang in groups of three and cause the same stinging itch on contact.
However, poison ivy’s leaf edges are smooth and slightly pointed, not scalloped.Poison Oak: Like its ivy counterpart, poison oak leaves also cluster in sets of three. The edges of the solid green leaves, while reminiscent of an oak tree, are less dramatic.
Poison oak is most often seen in shrub form, but it can also grow as a vine. Image courtesy of www.poison-ivy.org.These spots look like black lacquer spilled onto the skin. Instead of black spots, some people develop black streaks on their skin.
If you develop black spots or.The leaves of poison oak are shiny and dark green, whereas white and red mulberry trees have hairy, rough leaves that feel like sandpaper to the touch. Unlike poison oak, mulberry plants have polymorphic leaf structures.
One branch may hold leaves that look entirely different from one another.Poison ivy is the only one that always has three leaves, one on each side and one in the center. They’re shiny with smooth or slightly notched edges.
Poison oak looks similar, but the leaves are.Identifying poison ivy, oak, or sumac Both poison ivy and poison oak have three leaflets, while poison sumac more commonly displays leaflets of five, seven, or more that angle upward toward the top of.Winter: It can be very difficult to identify poison oak during winter time because it’s dormant. During this stage, it loses its leaves and looks like bare, erect sticks coming from the ground.
But just because the leaves are no longer present, that does not mean that the rash-inducing oils are absent.The rash in poison oak is like a skin lesion or an elevated bump with reddish color. The bumps or red patches resemble a burn and the bumps are severely itchy. The rash may also ooze and for some time the rash becomes dry and crusty and may become raw and thickened or scaled.
Poison Oak: Poison oak is more common in Western US, and can appear in the Eastern US. Oddly, it is rarely found in the Midwest region. Poison oak usually has three leaf, but sometimes up to 7 per leaf group.
It grows as a shrub or a vine.Identifying Poison Oak Like poison ivy, this plant most often grows leaves in clusters of three, although some varieties display five or seven per cluster. The defining feature is that the leaves have a lobed, wavy appearance (also described as scalloped.Rash from poison ivy.
Many people develop an itchy rash that causes lines or streaks that look like this. Poison ivy, oak and sumac: Overview. Many people get a rash from poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac. This rash is caused by an oil found in the plants. This oil is called urushiol (you-ROO-shee-all).Plant Identification.
The old saying “Leaves of three, Let it be!” is a helpful reminder for identifying poison ivy and oak, but not poison sumac which usually has clusters of 7-13 leaves. Even poison ivy and poison oak may have more than three leaves and their form may vary greatly depending upon the exact species encountered, the local environment, and the season.
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55 comments
its an oil so i use rubbing Alcohol along with iodine. my real personal method is to take a blade and cut open every area affected and then i scrub rubbing alcohol into it lol it hurts so bad but it works so good! ALSO WTF IS IT WHEN U GET POISON ON YOUR PRIVATE AREA AND U SCORCH IT WITH REALLY HOT WATER?!?! IT FEELS SOOOOOOO GOOD ITS ALMOST ORGASMIC!
Does itching mean my skin is healing after applying Triamcinolone Acetonide Ointment (A steroid) on the Poison Ivy?
i’ve had an organ transplant and am on Immunosuppressants, time to go test if i’m immune to poison ivy
Got poison Ivy rashes on my legs right now, pissing me off..but the worst ever was when I was in grade school and got poison Ivy absorbed into my face and skin via it being burned in a fire. That is THE WORST!!
Never encountered poison ivy while playing in the woods as a kid. Stinging nettle on the other hand…
Wait, does this mean that Urushiol could be used in HIV treatments? By activating the T cells, which don’t mount a defense against the virus until it’s numbers are too great and it’s too late.
Hello nurse, I thought I had the ivy but after seeing the video I don’t think so, for the last week I’ve been getting hives starting at the hands and forearms with an itch and during the day it scatters throughout the body like neck, legs, back of the knees, I’ve taken antihistamines but very little relief I started some prednisone, I’ve only taken it 1 day and I see relief if I continue it for a few more days could this solve the problem. Thanks
To get rid of the itching put a damp washcloth with HOT water (as hot as you can stand it) on it for a minute. This won’t make the poison ivy go away but it will bring serious relief from the itching till it goes away.
I’ve got poison ivy growing in my yard. we’ll be pulling it out soon though i got a couple paint suits with gloves and hoods, plus safety glasses and dust masks for us to wear to hopefully avoid rash (or death!). it’s gonna be a pain in the butt to get it all out, not looking forward to it at all. lol! i’m not sure I’ve ever seen poison oak in the wild before, so thanks for sharing!:)
I cut through a poison ivy vine with a chain saw and got the sawdust on my arms, neck, legs, stomach, and hands. It too over a week to begin showing up. First a patch or two on my stomach. A week later, some on my hands. A week later some appeared on the calves of my legs, then about another week it appeared on top of my shoulders. 8 weeks into treatment with triamcinolone cream, clobetasol proprionate cream, cocoa butter, sulfur salve, vicks salve, etc. I still have some on my shoulders and stomach. I get the best relief from the itch from OTC antihistamines taken religiously, aspirin, and I also had to take Amoxicillin for secondary infection of the lesions. Almost 9 weeks of misery and I am still treating the horrible itch. I also was prescribed Prednisone tablets but found I could not take them. They made my back and kidneys ache. There is no cure and very few products out there that offer only minimal and temporary relief [lidocane lotions] This truly is the plant from Hell.
Mine went crazy and I had to take prednisone twice over 6 weeks then I had a reaction to the prednisone and it enlarged my prostate and I couldn’t go to the bathroom.
Thanks so much for your videos and your so smart. Look forward to seeing more of videos.
Did they have to pick a man with a cracklin effeminate voice? Come on.. speak with authority
I thought T-cells looked like SWAT officers and while I’m at it, aren’t blood cells waifus?
animated and colorful, but not very helpful. I’m looking for a video on removal methods. Like scraping the sores with a knife blade and dowsing the resulting condition with rubbing alcohol or distilled mineral spirits.
I’m one of the lucky people that isn’t allergic to it yet
I know this because there are veins of poison ivy and sumac in my back yard and along our fence and I have never gotten an allergic reaction, I believe it was passed down from my mom, as my dad is so allergic to it that his entire body will break out from one leaf of the stuff touching his leg. My mom incidentally lost her immunity after I was born, so I guess it’s a hormonal thing maybe?
love these identification videos!
I guess the saying
leaves of 3…let it be
2 yrs ago…i was clearing weeds in shorts and tank (no gloves)
My property was covered in poison IVY OAK and SUMAC
thankfully…i am not allergic and now I warn everyone! hahaa
I’ve had some brutal poison ivy in my life but this time is the worst. I can’t even sleep cause I wake up scratching and my arms have swelled up. I’m going to come back to this video in 2 weeks when I’m healed to remind myself of my past suffering. Future me, never touch it again. Love you.
im highly allergic to poison ivy, i have to go on steroids every time i get it
When I was little I got it inside of my eye and I looked like quasimodo all summer:(
I’m one of the lucky people immune to poison ivy. Really lucky since the camp I went to as a kid was covered in it.
I always joke that I have so few allergies, I actually have negative ones, since I don’t even react to normal stuff like Poison Ivy.
I seem to have no response to poison ivy but poison oak gets me good. Sumac doesn’t affect me like the other two but it’s like a burning sensation that goes away after I take a shower. I’m confused.
Great remedy story:
I’ve only gotten a poison ivy breakout once in my life at a summer camp. They gave me calamine lotion and some other junk. I had rashes head to toe. I was young and embarrassed so I called mom to come get me. She couldn’t come until the next day. All the kids went in a trail hike and the counselors let me hide in my room all that day. I was miserable, crying, and sooooo itchy! But during the hike, the cook from the mess hall told the counselor to let me jump in the pool while the others were out. The counselor did just that. She took me to the pool, alone and let me have the whole pool to myself for about an hour. When I got out almost all of the rashes and redness was gone except where I scratched excessively. I was stumped. So was the young counselor. She took me back to the mess hall and asked the cook if he know that would happen. He said, “of course, didn’t you?” Lol that poor lady has been dealing with my whimpering all day. She got every remedy and bit of advice that she could muster up and all the had to do was throw me in the pool! We called my mom back that evening and told her I was better and stayed there. Apparently chlorine is a fast way to get rid of it.
—the next day at camp they let us do wood burning projects and passed out templates and nice wooden boards. I didn’t care for the template options and made my very own Ouija board. Apparently they weren’t as impressed as I was since it was a southern Christian camp. No one told me!
I also flipped over our canoe, intentionally, right after the counselors instructed us how to prevent them from being tipped over. Pfft. At least I was listening! That’s more than I could say for all the those sheeple kids that were busy trying to whack fish that weren’t there while the counselors talked safety. They should’ve appreciated my abstract reasoning skills, my ability to reverse engineer sentences, and of course, showing initiative. Those were exemplary leadership skills in the making! I knew I was predestined for a leadership role, the moment I plunged into that icy river and two other girls followed immediately after without the slightest hesitation… as the canoe toppled over us, trapping us within.
Eat a tiny piece of poison ivy everyday for 2 weeks. Become immune.
Very helpful video. I haven’t came across any poison oak in my area. We have poison ivy everywhere. Your video is much better than an illustration in a book. I’m trying to show my kids what to watch out for and your video was perfect. Thanks!
Hell yea im the 10% to 15% that dont get the itch and I am always in and around posion ivy never once had the rash or itch my whole life
thank you. Just got poison ivy, first time in 20 yrs. Same area. same bush. For some reason, got it this year. thanks for this, so i dont get oak, as my oak tree has a vine going up it, googled images, and its poison ivy going up the oak! oye vaye! but, now i know: its real!
Good vid but I’m not going to lie. The dubstep nature video combo kind of killed it for me. it’s just too out of place.
Willamette Valley Cascade Mountain range, living on acreage along the Santiam Riverfront. Within the last 5 years the poison plant has taken over, it is virtually in every square yard of foliage, camo’d, choking out trees etc. How to eliminate large areas of this?
Great video the best one I have seen yet I love the side-by-side pictures of how it can and can’t grow. I would love to see more on sumac and Ivy
Thank you for the tips. In addition to the leaves of 3 and oak like leaf is a poison oak leaf also asymmetrical
Like poison ivy?
Where are people finding poison ivy? Never seen it in my life
Nobody: What does the fox say, back in the day: 4:09
Ah yes, I will enjoy remembering 30 seconds of this video when poison ivy comes up in conversation 3 months from now
I had poison oak in my blood stream and had to get a steroid shot. Not fun at all! Imagine itching inside and not being able to scratch it.
I can’t go into the woods anymore. The last time I contacted urushiol was under a commercial trailer I was inspecting. Some vegetation was stuck to an air spring. I now am permanently scarred on my face looking like an acid attack victim. The area kept itching for a whole year long after the rash and scabs had healed. Either they find a cure for this allergic reaction, or erradicate all plants containing it from the u.s. Until that day I’ll stay on the wide trails.
. I don’t get why some exposure to things increase allergic response while other exposures reduce. Allergy shots are just gradual ramped up exposure to the allergen to get the body use to it. Its believed early exposure to peanuts helps prevent peanut allergies.
Also, how come it seems different allergens produce different symptoms, if they are all allergic responses.
When my mom was young she went hiking on the coast and found a family from the east coast. They had Poison oak in their fire, had padded their bedding with it and were using sticks from poison oak to cook the dinner they were halfway through eating. Luckily they got to the hospital and were okay but it could have been really bad had they not. Good thing to point out for people.
I have a question. Does poison oak usually have yellow bubbles in the rash? I recently went camping, and I think I might have ran into some poison oak, because I saw those leaves that look like they had a red on the top. They were all around the campsite. And now I have rashes and they have yellow bubbles. The reason why I know this is probably poison oak, is because all of the symptoms you were talking about in this video are true to me, and because I slept in a shelter for one night. We had to make the shelters out of resources around. Not fun.
Great info, great doodling! But please, please please leave out the music… truly ruins the video.
I think I ran into some poison oak a couple days ago and I now have a rash. Well, really several rashes
Pretty sure I’m immune. I’ve had two instances of people getting hit hard and I got nothing.
Cool quik vid. Luckily I’m not affected by it. However it isn’t fun stuff.
my dad went camping with the boy scouts, and he asked them to collect wood for their fire. they brought back a lot, he stripped it and they had a nice fire. when he went to bed, he used his fleece jacket he was wearing as a pillow. obviously, they had brought back poison oak. they all woke up COVERED in rashes. his jacket was saturated with the smoke from the fire, and one half of his face was SWOLLEN like crazy. he said it was hell. it took most of them ages to fully heal from it lol
“If you run through this stuff it’s going to ruin your day” haha sooo true
my immune system is a lot of things, over eager aint one of em.
Great video! Poison Oak and Poison Ivy are a little different looking, but both are identified by the “leaves of three”. They both cause the same nasty rash which is an allergic reaction to urushiol oil that occurs naturally on these plants. Where you are in the country will determine which one you run into (we are lucky enough to have both in the southeast). The one I have a harder time identifying is Poison Sumac which looks completely different but produces the same urushiol oil and causes the same damn rash.
It is never a good idea to cut down with chainsaw…Prepper John
I grew up playing in poison ivy. I once chopped up a bunch of it in backyard with my mom as a kid. She got a rash, I didn’t.
I didnt undersatand, i speak less english and he speak fast and scramble.
I never got hit by poison Ivy, Maybe i’m immune. Still always watching out for it and never touching.
The tree that grows cashew nuts is related to the urushiol-containing plants. The cashe nut itself is enclosed in an outer covering not really a “nut shell” that contains an oil which is very high in urushiol. That’s why you can only buy processed cashes, not “cashews in their shells” like peanuts. The oil from cashews can be used to create industrial resins or paints. And the “cashew apple” fruit the nut grows from is sweet, and can be made into various desserts, including some very tasty preserves, and also as a base for the alcoholic beverage cachaça. I just ate diced chicken stir-fried with cashews for dinner
The left to right growing pattern was a good tip.
Regardless, dude, find a new train. You’re screwed if you fall or trip lmao
Thanks for the video. I can’t find “Clearlac” on any google search and the closest thing “Clearlax” is an oral treatment for constipation. Can you share a link or more info about this product?
yes they are innocent, because they dont exist. At least not in my part of the world 😉