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Originally Posted by Sooner or later

I am still leaning in that direction. He said he had it on both love handles. He gets it on his hands. Reaches down to hitch up his pants and transfers the oil to the pants/skin.

My little sister just got over a case of poison ivy. She calls me about a rash and if it could be poison ivy. So I go to see her. Yep, looks like it. Ask her if she had been in the woods. No, but she had been weeding the shrubs around her house. (New home they had just bought). So she takes me out to an area where there was some "English ivy". Actually, poison ivy that she was watering and cultivating...

If it is poison ivy he needs to wash the clothes he was wearing and scrub up after touching the contaminated clothing. .

Wow! There's a lesson. I suspect she won't make that mistake again.

Many years ago, we started getting it in our back yard, mostly around the edges near the fence. I suspect birds were pooping seeds out while perched on the fence. I would get it from time to time, probably from weed eating. It took a while before I realized what it was because my reaction was super mild initially so I wasn't concerned, worried or trying to figure out what was causing it. My reaction eventually got worse and I eventually found the culprit. I was then vigilant.