So my neighbors little girl has poison ivy but they don't know how she got it. She would rather stay inside than play outside. They asked me if she could have gotten it from their dog since those two seem to be inseparable. Is it possible the dog ran though a patch and then their daughter got it when she hugged the dog? Would seem possible since she has it on her arms, neck and face. Poor thing.

Yes you can get it that way.

Yep that's one way. Another up here is people getting it in the winter from firewood

My wife would get it doing my laundry till we figured out how she was getting it. I guess if your allergic it's not hard to get in a lot of ways other than walking through a patch of it.

Urushiol is the oil in the plant that causes the rash. Getting it on you is the problem. Yes, can be transmitted by pets , firewood , clothing and other forms of contact.

Fun fact , only humans and primates get the rash. Whitetails like to eat poison ivy , birds eat the berries.

I'm aware that some people seem to be more susceptible to getting it than others but never really gave it much thought to how many ways it could be transmitted. I will pass this information onto my neighbors. Thanks!

The oil from poison ivy is very similar to grease in consistency, and is pretty tough to wash off. Put some tractor grease on your arm and wash it off, that’s about the same as poison ivy oil. It could easily be passed from an animal to a person. I’ve heard it can stay on tools like shovels, chainsaws, weed whackers, etc for many years if not washed off. That’s why many people that haven’t even been around the actual poison ivy can pick it up from some other way.

I got it one winter when our neighbor was burning brush. I walked through the smoke. I used to get it almost every year when I was younger.

There are lots of remedies for poison ivy. I found the one that worked best for me was Zanfel.

Very true , like axle grease. Just watched a video explaining it exactly like that. Key to exposure is washing thoroughly to remove it. The vid compared different soaps and poison ivy soaps to remove the oil. Best tip was to wash with a washcloth for the scrubbing action. That was more important than the type of soap used.

Truth!

dawn is good for breaking down the oils in it when washing

I had it on my jeans years ago and my wife got it on her stomach right after doing laundry. She was pregnant and not happy with me.

My wife never got poison I've in her life until after I got her pregnant. Now she gets it mildly. She points out that something to do with pregnancy women keep some of the males DNA in there body the rest of their life? Sonethingvshe read somewhere. So she blames me for making her allergic now.

As a kid I got it often. Really bad once head to toe miserable dose not describe it. Just happened it was on our way to the ocean a day or so later. After a day or two at the beach it went away. After the first day it didn't bother me any more. Now I only get it very mildly for a short time. Did I build up some immunity or just learn to stay out of it better. Probably both I think.

what kills the ivy plants?

Round up or any good brush killer. It's not hard to kill.

Interesting read. Been around poison ivy my entire life and never realized there was oil on the plant. I can take it and rub it on me and never noticed an oil or a reaction. I do know some people that claim just being in the vicinity of it gives them the rash. Guess growing up wearing shorts and no shoes sorta immunes you to some things in nature.

Used to break out bad as a child. Still it never deterred me from running the woods all summer barefoot, shirtless and in shorts as all us wild heathens did. I'd get big water blister type of rashes between my toes. Sundays were horrible as mama required shoes to go to church and that was back when we baptists still did all day singing and dinner on the grounds. The last bad breakout was probably when I was in jr high a couple back to back rashes that swelled my eyes almost shut.
I guess I finally developed some sort of immunity to it as I wade through it today without consequence. Maybe every few years a tiny pea sized patch of rash might show up for a day or two.

Good info here

When I did basic at Ft Jackson we had a kid out of New York do what bears do in the woods. Probably his first time in the woods as he didn't know squat about where to squat or why leaves of three make poor butt wipe.

I really felt sorry for that poor yank.

My mom had never had a reaction to poison ivy in her life. She was planting flower along a bank edge in the yard that I now live in. She mowed the area and dug it all up. She ended up with it all over her body and in her lungs and was in the hospital for a week. That was 15 years ago and the flowers are still beautiful.