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Eating poison ivy to become immune,

Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:10 pm
Posted by DellTronJon
Member since Feb 2010
1287 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:10 pm
Has anybody actually ever tried this? My dad told me people used to do this. Is it just a bunch of redneck rubish?
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
69301 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:12 pm to
Sigh.......
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
19225 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:13 pm to
Do it and report your findings.
Posted by NoSaint
Member since Jun 2011
11281 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:13 pm to
One way for you to find out (both if it’s true and if your dad loves you)
Posted by SleepyChuckTodd
Boone
Member since Mar 2020
65 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:14 pm to
I don’t know, man. I’ve eaten lots of pussy and yet it’s still the cause of a lot of pain in my life.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
65688 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:14 pm to
Why stop there?

Try eating snake venom.
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
53805 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:15 pm to
Works the same with arsenic. You just have to eat an amount just less than lethal. You survive, and arsenic isn’t poisonous to you anymore.
Posted by FightingTigers138
In your thoughts
Member since Dec 2016
5746 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:15 pm to
Absolutely. Although growing up we mixed it with spinach, tomatoes, and cucumbers to make a nice summer salad.

I prefer a vinaigrette with my Ivy.
Posted by YF12
Ottobaan
Member since Nov 2019
4451 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:15 pm to
If you kill yourself you will be immune from being killed in the future
Posted by Brosef Stalin
Member since Dec 2011
39195 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:15 pm to
Why would eating it make you immune? That doesn't make sense. You have to rub it all over your body to get immune, especially your arse and balls.
Posted by Methuselah
On da Riva
Member since Jan 2005
23350 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:16 pm to
I dunno about eating it, but luckily I've always been immune.

I grew up in the 60's and 70's and we pretty much grew up outside climbing trees and stuff. My siblings and cousins would get it, but I never did.
Posted by Bobby OG Johnson
Member since Apr 2015
24813 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:19 pm to
Posted by ZappBrannigan
Member since Jun 2015
7692 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:20 pm to
You weren't your dad's kid.
Posted by real turf fan
East Tennessee
Member since Dec 2016
8649 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:21 pm to
A professor friend at a land grant university (He's a full professor with lots of experience in AG fields) has told us about how he became immune. He started by growing poison ivy in one of his labs over winter and wiping a small amount on his skin every so often. I've seen him eat it out in the field in one of his test plots and he seems to have found something that works for him.
Posted by ItzMe1972
Member since Dec 2013
9801 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:22 pm to
I used to hear that eating the berries was the trick.

I don't know. I'm allergic and have had it dozens of times.

An article on the subject:

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Posted by FLObserver
Jacksonville
Member since Nov 2005
14460 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:23 pm to
My brother and i had it so much as kids that after a certain amount of time i believe we became immune to getting it. Could walk right thru it and not get it. I would not test that theory now since it has been a few decades since i had it
Posted by YouAre8Up
in a house
Member since Mar 2011
12792 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:25 pm to
Idiot.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
22168 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:28 pm to
quote:

Has anybody actually ever tried this? My dad told me people used to do this. Is it just a bunch of redneck rubish?


I'm highly allergic to poison ivy. Eating it would result in, at minimum, a hospital visit. Maybe even a painful, rattling last breath. Hey, Aqualung.
Posted by Geekboy
Member since Jan 2004
4971 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:28 pm to
If you try it let us know what the Darwin Award looks like.
Posted by stout
Smoking Crack with Hunter Biden
Member since Sep 2006
167258 posts
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:30 pm to
People also used to take cocaine as a toothache remedy.
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