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dermatitis resulting from contact with the poison ivy plant
my poison ivy is drying up - climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries; yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact
How To Use poison ivy In A Sentence
- As proof of his discreetness, moss had grown all over the stone houses, with small trees sprouting from the roofs, and poison ivy dangling over the walls to cover up the windows.
- All parts of the poison ivy plant produce the oily irritating agent, urushiol.
- Then I added two herbs used by American Indians: the rich, dark-green leaves of plantain for relieving irritated skin and sticky grindelia flowers, or “gumweed,” with their light, fresh scent, to treat the itch of poison ivy and poison oak. The Last Chance Dog
- The best-known cause of contact dermatitis is poison ivy, but there are many others, including chemicals found in laundry detergent, cosmetics, and perfumes, and metals like the nickel plating on a belt buckle.
- Poison ivy belongs to the Anacardiaceae or cashew family, which includes many other rash-causing plants such as poison oak and poison
- Irritated summer skin is usually caused by clogged sweat ducts, a condition called prickly heat or miliaria, or by exposure to poison ivy, oak or sumac.
- My older sister was once hospitalized after walking downwind of a brush fire in an area where poison ivy grew.
- Arthritis, asthma and severe skin reactions to poison ivy or sunburn are just some of the disorders these drugs treat.
- Grevillea robusta (Grevillea, Australian Silly-Oak, Lacewood) contains similar phenolic compounds to that of poison ivy.
- The only certain way of avoiding poison ivy rash is to avoid the plant.
