Poison IVY question?

Question

I got an ongoing dispute with a friend of mine.
he says that a friend of his got poison Ivy so bad that his doctor told him it would return every year.
Now this isnt from contact anymore its just from getting such a bade case of it.
he even says that his friend actually gets it very year in the same spot
I dont belive this at all but there is no way for me to prove this to him. I dont know any doctors that i can bring over to prove this.
I need to prove this because i work with him and he wont shut up about it.
No matter how i try to word the fact that you cant have a new allergic reaction without an allergen he says. "so youre saying a doctor is wrong". but he never met this doctor and I fro one would like to meet him.
can anyone at least point me to a web link that can prove him wrong. Or i will have to listen to this until one of us quits or gets fired

Answer 1

Poison ivy comes form an allergic reaction to the oils in the plant. Any means of contact, from the plant to something the oil resides on from contact.

I find it VERY hard to believe what your friend says to even be slightly possible. What on earth are the basis for this recurrence?? Has your friend ever heard the term "action and reaction???

Next time he ask "So your saying the doctor is wrong", answer "Hell yes I am and I'm also suggesting finding a new competent one!!

Some people just like to argue a useless fact right or wrong. I wouldn't indulge myself in his ignorance. If he wants to believe all he hears............well then.....so be it. No point in you wasting your energy on a lost cause. You made your point and he's made his. Know your right and he's mis-informed!! Leave it at that and move on to better things. Let him fuss over his friend with the annual poison ivy...........

By the way, I had such a bad case of poison ivy I was hospitalized for it. I did NOT have re-occurring incidents yearly or otherwise without new introductions to the oil.

Answer 2

The rash that is characteristic of Poison Ivy is caused by an oil produced by the plant. Therefore, if the oil is gone, the rash shouldn't return.

That is, unless the friend gets mixed up with the plant again. In which case, all bets are off.

I'm thinking that either the doc doesn't know what he's talking about, or more likely someone doesn't understand what the doctor is saying. It is quite possible that the doctor said that the friend would get poison ivy more easily, and that got interpretted as meaning that the rash would return.

Answer 3

what the first person says it absolutely right

imagine being extremely allergic to strawberries and having a terrible case of it one time.. why in the world would you have this reaction every year if you don't ever go near strawberries again.

the reason for getting the same reaction in the same spot every year probably isn't the cause of a one time reaction.. it may be somewhere that it likely to touch plant life.. on your legs on your hands.. etc. and that time of year is probably just the time poison ivy is most abundant.. your friend needs some kind of reality check.. tell him to buzz off and find someone else to annoying with petty arguments

if you want to.. next time you get a check up mention the question to a doctor you trust