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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For my DS, he had a reaction to poison ivy 5 or 7 days after exposure, and it ended up being all over his body. He must have had it on his hands and scratched and gotten the oil all over. The pediatrician said that the delay from first exposure can be a bit longer, before the rash comes. His rashes took weeks to clear and some of the spots scarred, unfortunately. He is very fair and prone to scarring.[/quote] Something like this happened to my son. You can develop a reaction similar to serum sickness from poison ivy. My son had gotten it on his legs, we washed it off, he developed the rash there, but as the days progressed, it spread over his entire body. Some areas can be slowed to react to the oil, but this was not that. I’m talking eyes swollen shut, legs and arms completely puffed up, rash all over his back and torso. He did not roll naked in a bed of poison ivy, and we had washed him and all his clothing after the exposure. The ped said some people develop a systemic reaction and their immune system overreacts so they get the rash even in places where the oil didn’t touch their skin. Oral steroids calmed it; you can’t really treat a reaction like that topically and the kid was absolutely miserable. [/quote]
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