<span style="font-family:Optima">Well i have never come across this "poison oak"..........In fact i have never heard of it till now</span>

Well, I've been stung by plants only twice in my life the first one was poision ivy, I was leading a horse from one paddock, across a creek, to the other and, plunging my arm into the ivy to haul my self over the the bank, I first thought I plunged it into an ants nest, then a wasps nest, then I looked harder to see what covered the entire bank. Out of pure luck, my horse decided to have a pee while I was washing my arm in the creek, so I got up, gave her stroke down the back, a scratch at the top of the tail & put my arm behind her for a "golden shower", all the while watching her tail (if you know what I mean). Thanks to her call of nature, it was fine by the end of the day.

The second was from a native stinging plant, but fortunately, the antidote plant was Ten meters away.

There is no misfortune in my life that isn't counteracted by something. It's great to be me.

Iv'e never heard of poison oak but I heard of poison ivy and I never got itchy by that. It does make you itchy by the way.

Mmmm, I've never heard of 'posion oak' but I know what poison ivy is and it is very very itchy. I was skateboarding and I fell off straight into a clump of it (laugh at my misfortune if you wish :P) and the itching wouldn't stop for several days. I didn't use any anti-itching cream though, they just seem to make it worse for me. I just left it alone and waited for it to stop.

Also, Knowze, you're just way too lucky.

You have an excellent grasp of the obvious.
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I have been in 'touch' with poison something. I don't know what it was but I was had it from my legs to just above my waist. Well except where my shorts were.

That was the last time I wore shorts while out for one of my hikes.

I got some cream and just lived with it until it was gone.

Stinging Nettle!!!! Argggggg, hate that stuff, it alway's seems to be present everytime I venture into the garden!
Luckily we also have an abundance of Dock leave's, to counter it.

Bee sting's is also a problem for me, as I puff up dramatically! So I avoid these as much as humanly possible.......not that easy when you live in the 'Garden City" of NZ! Ok, not quite within the city itself, more like the outskirt's/greenbelt, or country if you prefer?

Mr Gungk! I never realised you rode also? I knew Rex did, but not you, seems you do learn something new everyday!

Oh good grief don't talk to me about nettles cause here in Scotland practically everywhere you look there's bloomin nettles. Although thankfully Docan leaves are also in abundant supply. Last time my mother was doing up the back garden we both put on thick leather gloves to pull out all those blasted nettles. We still got stung though wherever our arms weren't quite covered by either the gloves or our jackets. [sigh] They just aren't worth the bother. But I mean the only thing worse than nettles when you're out hiking across fields and that is a big patch of b!!0dy Thistles since they can get through almost any kind of trousers or jacket with ease. Unless of course it was thick leather. Oh well I think I've ranted for long enough now so I'll go and do something to take my mind off nettles and thistles and other stingy things.

Worf, relief is just a few minutes away. You ever heard of the "natural" cure for jellyfish sting? As it's been explained to me, poison oak/sumac/ivy is similar, and the same cure works for all. Simply bathe the afflicted area in urine. I don't know if it has to be yours, or even human, but I have it on good authority that it works.

You say you've got it on your neck? Well, you live there in Frisco, right? I'm sure you can find plenty of nice fellas up there who'll pee on your neck to help you out, just go to a bar down there in the "Castro district" and ask a few of 'em.

Most joking aside, urine is a quick-fix.

Manne, hunny are ye crazy??!! The nettle's I'm referring too, are nasty little (or big, depends on how long they've been in residence) green plants, that are, to my way of thinking the Jelly-fish of the plant world!
Hmmmm???.....Seem's we have a masochist in our midst :lol:

[SIZE=2]Ah sumac, I forgot about that one.
I had never heard about urine being any good for anything other then getting rid of.....
Knowze Gungk was talking about putting his arm under the piss of his horse after a bout with poison ivy, I though he was kidding but I am conviced it may work.
I may try it.....MAYBE.....

Worf[/SIZE]

in the summer i got loads of insect bites all over my body (about 30) and we still dont know what it was, but they were bad. the doctor told me that every time i get stung it will get worse, so now i just freak whenever i see anything like a bee wasp, horsefly etc. I gotta carry these tablets round with me now just in case.

[SIZE=1]Rural farmland Kentucky has it's share of poisonous plants...and guess what...I'm ALWAYS the guy that gets to go trudge out into unknown shrubbery and retrieve a lost object or find a quicker route to a destination or whatever the need may be, probably due to the fact that I have come into contact with every poisonous plant in the area and never been effected. Seems I have a natural avoidance to plant poisons in particular.[/SIZE]

i've never been affected by Ivy, Oak, or Sumac. I've been in contact with it but it just doesn't affect me. But i can transfer the poison to other people, which comes in handy for...things.

Nettles do affect me. i get little white blisters like frostbite, only not in those pretty string patterns. Nettles feel like getting stung by 50 wasps all on a small patch of skin.

Extremely good advice: Never lick nettles.

i never heard of docan leaves, what do they look like? Do they grow in the US? Do you eat them or rub them on the skin?