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A member asked:
Can you get poison ivy inside your eye and stomach? can it attack your brain?
7 doctors weighed in across 5 answers
Poison Ivy: Poison ivy only affects your skin and not your internal organs.
Answered 9/15/2013
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Poison Ivy: Did you eat a poison ivy salad? The symptoms of poison ivy are caused by an immune reaction to the plant oils, so it will only happen where the plant touched. Your brain is safe!
Answered 11/27/2017
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Eye lids: Eye lid contact would affect your eyes and ingestion could affect your stomach. Both can be serious and need medical attention. Brain, not directly, but the severe itching may "drive you crazy".
Answered 3/22/2021
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No: Poison ivy is a delayed hypersensitivity reaction caused by contact with the oils from the poison ivy plant. It does not 'travel' or 'spread' and it is not contagious from person to person once the oil is washed off the skin.
Answered 9/15/2013
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See details: You cannot get it inside your eye or brain. If you eat it, i assume that it could effect your stomach, but i doubt it.
Answered 4/6/2014
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