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[Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>]

I don't think it's mind over matter.  I'm terrified of poison ivy, and 
avoid it carefully.  I never get it.  But maybe that's because I can 
recognize the stuff.  :)

Ginda

On Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 11:34 PM, <redherring@tnaccess.com> wrote:

> 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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