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All symptoms should subside within a week.
A rash will typically last for a week to three weeks. It's advisable to not scratch poison ivy, but if you do, don't touch any other part of your body. It's possible to spread the rash that way. Wash your hands frequently and wash any clothing that had even the remotest chance of being in contact with poison ivy or your skin. It can last for nearly 24 hours on fibers.
NOT TOO MANY YEARS AGO, doctors as well as the public in general believed that poison ivy could be spread from oozing sores on the skin caused by poison ivy., we now KNOW that this is NOT true. The only way for poison ivy to spread is from the ORIGIONAL oils from the ivy plant that remains on the skin or the clothing. Once the oils are cleaned away from the skin or clothing, the only way to spread poison ivy is to come in contact with fresh oil from the plant.
No, you will not get poison ivy.
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Poison ivy produces an oil called urushiol. Urushiol is an irritant to the skin and other tissue. If you touch the plant you will get the urushiol on you. Even long dead poison ivy vines can still be coated with the oil.
Poison Ivy has no boyfriend.
You can tell if you have poison ivy by the rash. You will start to see the rash 12- 48 hrs after being exposed. The rash is usually a straight line from where the plant hit you but can be more spread out if you where exposed by clothing, your pet, smoke, ect.
No, poison ivy cannot be spread from person to person.The rash that appears after being exposed to poison ivy is your body trying to fight off the oils that are deep inside your skin. No oils will be on the rashes nor when oozing begins will it be able to spread from person to person.The only possible way is if the person got poison ivy on a pare of clothing, and didn't wash them. Then another person took that pare of clothing and wore it.Poison ivy oils can get on every thing from tools to clothing even animals and can stay on them for a year or more. So make sure you wash anything that you think has come in contact with poison ivy.
Anyone can get Poison Ivy if you are allergic to it.
Ivy leaf is poison ivy. Poison ivy is a leaf that gives you a bad itchy rash.
If the poison ivy bubble is big it is not poison ivy but rather poison oak the same remities apply for ridding yourself of it