JanieH

Thanks for posting about this. Really good information.

tessagin

My cousin had a fireplace built when he built his new home. It was huge the fireplace and the house (3500 sq. ft). He cut some logs from the woods on his property. Unbeknownst to him evidently there was some poison ivy/sumac/oak. He and his family were all allergic to it. Within hours the whole family ended up in the hospital in ICU. They all had it on them and inhaled when it burned. He didn't realize burning poison ivy and the like would do harm like it did. They had to open the house, bought regular lumber from the home improvement store and burned it hoping it would help rid the house of the poison spores. They had professional housecleaning crew clean their new home from top to bottom. They were just that afraid. They made their own potion of Dawn and white vinegar and sprayed any poison plants on their property and were quite careful of any other wood they cut from their woods.

ube quilting

Don't ever ingest the berries of poison ivy or any of the common poison plants, sumac, oak.

cashs_mom

My mother got a really bad case of poison ivy because someone near her was burning it and she was outside at the time.

Garden Gnome

Just a suggestion about spraying poison ivy to kill it: Round up is not really for woody shrubs like poison ivy. You will have a better kill if you use a shrub killer that has triclopyr as the active chemical. It will take longer for a complete die-off, but it will get down in the plant and kill the roots, and one application will do it. You can add a squirt of dish washing liquid to the sprayer, to help the chemical stay on the leaves.

Skhf

I wish it were that simple. I have never found simply washing afterwards prevents poison ivy. Urban legend