I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
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Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
#2Please don't do this. It's a great way to get urushiol poisoning of your GI tract.
Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
#3Please don't do this. It's a great way to get urushiol poisoning of your GI tract.
This sounds very much like something that someone might hear on Joe Rogan's podcast and think it's a good idea because someone who knows how to put two sentences together sounded like they knew what they were talking about.
Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
#4Please don't do this. It's a great way to get urushiol poisoning of your GI tract.
This sounds very much like something that someone might hear on Joe Rogan's podcast and think it's a good idea because someone who knows how to put two sentences together sounded like they knew what they were talking about.
Same with vitamin d self-medication here on HN
Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
#5Please don't do this. It's a great way to get urushiol poisoning of your GI tract.
It’s not the first time I’ve heard about it.
I can’t condone it but I can’t rule out that some variant of this might work.
The reaction to urushiol is an allergic reaction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol
and a vaccine is under development
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDC-APB
Some people just don’t react to it while others do.
I had hay fever as a kid which developed into asthma in my 30s, I had immune therapy from a specialist who gave me increasingly concentrated shots of allergens weekly for years. After a while my asthma went into remission and I quit taking medicine for it. I still have hay fever symptoms some times but they aren’t too bad and I rarely medicate for them because I get side effects even from some of the “non-drowsy” antihistamines.
Even though it is done under medical supervision, it is a controversial treatment. It’s banned in the U.K. They’d have me sit around the office for 30 minutes in case I had a bad reaction which they could usually treat with an injection of epinephrine but could be lethal if somebody was really unlucky.
Note there is at least one report of treatment of poison ivy sensitivity this way
https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(09)01972-1/ful...
The thing is I got a treatment from my doc which was somewhat evidence based, compare that to all the bizzaro ideas circulating such as Edgar Cayce’s idea that you could treat hay fever with an alcohol tincture of ragweed. (Got that from a herbalist once, it does seem harmless)
Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
#6Please don't do this. It's a great way to get urushiol poisoning of your GI tract.
It’s not the first time I’ve heard about it. I can’t condone it but I can’t rule out that some variant of this might work. The reaction to urushiol is an allergic reaction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol and a vaccine is under development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDC-APB Some people just don’t react to it while others do. I had hay fever as a kid which developed into asthma in my 30s, I had immune therapy…
Is it the same plant that was used for shokushinbutsu, the "self-mummification" practiced by Japanese monks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu
Edit: OK, not quite. The Japanese lacquer tree was used which produces the same "active" substance which is what slowly kills you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicodendron_vernicifluum
Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
This sounds very much like something that someone might hear on Joe Rogan's podcast and think it's a good idea because someone who knows how to put two sentences together sounded like they knew what they were talking about.
Same with vitamin d self-medication here on HN
Is there any research out there which links moderate amounts of vitamin D (such as the recommended dosages on vitamin D supplements) to any negative effects at all?
Is there any research to indicate that a lack of urushiol has negative effects, similar to how we know that a lack of vitamin D has negative effects?
If not I don't really see the connection
Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
#8Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
This sounds very much like something that someone might hear on Joe Rogan's podcast and think it's a good idea because someone who knows how to put two sentences together sounded like they knew what they were talking about.
Same with vitamin d self-medication here on HN
There is lots of research saying that vitamin D deficiency causes problems, and the deficiency is more common than you'd expect. Other health conditions and habits can lead to a deficiency.
Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
#10Please don't do this. It's a great way to get urushiol poisoning of your GI tract.
Would be nice if you addressed the article instead of the headline. It’s actually fascinating.