The irritant in Poison Ivy is an oil. You do not need to come in
contact with the vine, only come in contact with something that has come
in contact with the vine. I once got a significant case of poison ivy by
playing with my dog who liked to play in the poison ivy.

If the oil is on clothing, gloves, or clean up equipment, it could
continue to recontaminate you even after weeks.

wrote:
I told you I thought it wasn't BB's. I kind of figured it was something else
after our last conversation and you all of a sudden noticing more bumps. I
had figured it was something that you had missed in your daily routine of


I was thinking that I have so much "bug saliva" in my system (Im very
allergic to mosquito bites), that when I scratched my shoulder, I
actually SCRATCHED it, so it got red and swollen.


things you had done. You never thought about the gardening because it had
been so long ago had you? What is happening is you are scratching these and


The reasons I am doubtful about the poison ivy diagnosis a
1. I was outside for 60 minutes with a shirt and long pants and
sneakers on a Sat. got a thing behind my ear, 1 under my armpit and 1
on my bicep on a Thursday. (plus I showered right when I was done
outside, and I rarely go into the garden)
2. I have about 80 "bites" but only around 3 with a waterbubble head.
Yes, it could be true that I had more, but when I scratched it got
broken.
But a lot of them also do not have the waterbubble head (when they were
new)
3. I get at least 4 more every morning. I take a count at night before
I go to sleep and count it in the morning, and I get more when I wake
up. When I take the count at night, the number is the same.
4. Plus my dermatologist from Friday said it looked like bites.
Granted, I forgot to tell her I was in the garden, since it was a week
before and the symptoms did not start until almost a week later.


opening them up and spreading the poison around to new places on your body.


Is that true? My mother told me that if you break a poison ivy bite,
the liquid/pus does not spread the poison ivy.


If you can fight off the urge to scratch you will help yourself to end this
soon. The med's your doctor gave you will also help to end it pretty soon


Hopefully....Im sure all Pest Control specialists hear this: "Im scared
to go to sleep!"


also. The pictures do most definitely look like poison ivy to me. The bumps
look to have heads on them or look like small boils, the only insect bite
that will look anything like that is usually a spider or a stinging insect
of some kind, not a bedbug.


Dont you think this picture of insect bites and hives:
http://z.about.com/d/p/440/e/f/2433.jpg
http://www.tumama.net/images/hives/hives_03.jpg

looks like: (left side of picture, my lower right side of my torso)
Plus a lot of the bumps have been scratched and "burst" by me.
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/tforms1/2.jpg

Prior poster above speaking about clothing with poison ivy:
"and in my experience it would be one or more large broad patches, not
a lot of little ones. "


So you don't need to call out an exterminator for your home, that's a
relief. But if you do ever need one for anything else let me know and I will
recommend a good one for you.


Thanks for all your help!
A lot of professionals wouldnt take the time to help out so much.
Thanks to everyone also.

HOPEFULLY it is poison ivy *but I still have doubts =( * and not
insects.

To be honest, I dont care about the itchiness as much, what has been
bothering me the last 5 days is worry about bringing bugs into the
house (since I get more bumps at home).