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Discussion in 'Environmental Discussion' started by tochatihu, Oct 22, 2015.

  1. tochatihu

    tochatihu Senior Member

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    OK clothes laundry. Use hot water and go around more than once.

    Story time. On last night before returning from Costa Rica, I washed clothes in hotel machine. Evidently the person before washed some superb plant toxins off his her clothes because they transferred onto mine. Back home I put them on and bang, I was messed up. Three more cycles and clothes were detoxified.

    No idea if the problem was Toxicodendron radicans, but it was epic.
     
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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    Poison sumac caused blistering on me and my mother.
    The PI is always sprouting somewhere in my yard.
     
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    what could go wrong?
     
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    bwilson4web BMW i3 and Model 3

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    I had 30 days leave before posting to Okinawa that included: driving from Coffeyville KS to the EAA museum in WI; blizzard avoidance near Grand Tetons WY; Salt Lake City to fix a failing generator; San Francisco; down Highway One stop at Esalen Institute; to Los Angles and; the the big bird flight to Okinawa.

    Along Highway One, I camped one night in "Poison Oak Park" and took appropriate cautions including wearing socks in my boots. About three months later on Okinawa, I put the boots on without socks and . . . suffered the usual poison ivy effects.

    Bob Wilson