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[NAFEX] Re: eating poison ivy
Oral tolerance worked for Euall Gibbons and for the family he learned it
from, and it worked for a friend of ours and the family he learned it from.
They started each spring with a tiny triple leaflet, and ate one each day
for 3 weeks, by which time they were fullsized leaves. A friend said her
brother and his friend were playing Tarzan one time and cut a vine and drank
the sweet sap. They wound up in the hospital with internal blistering, but
her brother never got poison ivy again.
My husband and I never had any trouble with poison ivy, a good thing
because our property has LOTS of it. Kieran's family never got near the
stuff in Ireland, so we don't know how they would react, but one thing is
for sure, Kieran was not exposed as a child like us Americans were. (Of
course, he's convinced everything is mind over matter anyhow.) My dad gets
a rash from just getting near the stuff, and if it's mind over matter, my
dad is so scared of poison ivy or anything that looks like it, I'm sure he
could get a rash off virginia creeper. My mother got it as a kid, but not
as an adult. I never have been prone to it, maybe a couple of bumps if I
cut the vines digging in the winter, so however the reaction works, it
doesn't seem to be inherited. I have seen my kids get it really bad,
whereas I never remember their father getting it.
Some of the confusion with early exposure to foods is that when the gut
is not fully mature, some foods can cause lifelong allergies. For example,
there is some talk that the children of celiacs should not be exposed to
gluten at all till they are a year old, just to try to reduce their
reaction. Donna
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