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Jun 4, 2014 2:48 PM CST
Name: Marilyn, aka "Poly"
South San Francisco Bay Area (Zone 9b)
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I wear disposable vinyl gloves for gardening. Poison oak is not so much of an issue for me (it is in one hard-to-access part of the garden and I let my occasional garden helpers take care of it), but other plants are. Euphorbia and oleanders are problematic when pruning (due to the sap), and it seems that I (and my sister) are among the few who are sensitive to freshly cut daylily foliage. (One nurse who saw my arms after a dig-and-divide session (before I figured out that I was sensitive) said that it looked like poison oak - but that was in a different garden where there *was* no poison oak.)

If you inadvertently get the oils of poison ivy/oak on your skin - or, for that matter, the sap of euphorbia (this may also work for oleander and daylily sap but I haven't tested those), use those poison ivy wipes. (If there is frank sap on your skin, first use a paper towel to blot up what you can, and then use the poison ivy wipe - it really helps.) I now keep a box in the house all of the time, because at least once a year I am going to get sap of one thing or another on me.

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