[net.med] Help needed with Poison Ivy

rick@ariel.UUCP (R.MAUS) (08/13/83)

I need advice with regards to poison ivy.

  1) Ways to get rid of it off the skin.

  2) Ways to get rid of it from the yard environment (safely and without
     ecological repercussions).

				Thanks in advance,

				Richard L. Maus, Jr. (Rick)
				ABI(@BTL) HO 1K313 201-834-4532
				...!ho???!ariel!rick

norm@ariel.UUCP (N.ANDREWS) (08/15/83)

whatever you do, don't burn it!  The smoke is very dangerous, and breathing
too much of it would be deadly... Norm Andrews

horton@uiuccsb.UUCP (08/16/83)

#R:ariel:-41400:uiuccsb:9800001:000:312
uiuccsb!horton    Aug 16 02:13:00 1983

Watching last week's Victory Garden I heard a woman recite the old rhyme:

"mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy"

to explain that she kept sheep around to keep the poison ivy under control.
Not very practical for a city dweller, but ....


    kurt horton
    {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!horton