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each year.
Poison Ivy
by William Kitay
lllustration'by Denise Giraud
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FOR donald young, warm weamer eacn year brought
misery and economic hardship. Young is a gardener,
but he's also highly sensitive to poison ivy.
"It was a chore for him to scrub himself with strong
naphtha soap after working hard all day," recalls Mrs.
Young. "After each bath, he would dust himself with bak
ing soda and I would soak his work clothes to get out the
poison-ivy plant oils."
All the precautions proved to no avail. When Young was
at work, the poison ivy penetrated his clothing.
However, this Summer, thousands of such poison-ivy
sufferers will escape the painful blisters, redness, swelling,
and annoying itching caused by the nuisance weed that
each year afflicts more than 1,000,000 Americans. The
victims will do this by building up an immunity against the
infection with a new discovery of science.
Every morning for at least six weeks before the so-called
poison-ivy season begins, and then three times weekly
until the season's end, Donald Young will take five drops
of a new drug in a glass of milk or fruit juice.
This should protect him from infection, as it did last
Summer when for the first time in years he did not suffer
a single attack nor have to bathe in naphtha. And his wife
didn't have to soak his work clothes even once.
The new preparation to prevent poison-ivy infection has
been used experimentally on large numbers of habitual
sufferers for three years. Now it is being sold throughout
the country. Doctors recommend that the time to begin
preventive treatment to build up immunity is early March.
The preventive is made from the crushed fresh leaves
and stems of poison-ivy plants, mixed in 70 percent alcohol.
Technically, it is called an antigen a substance which
when introduced into the body forms antibodies which
prevent subsequent attacks by the same substance.
Efforts to develop a poison-ivy extract for prevention
and treatment of the symptoms of ivy poisoning have been
made for many years. Ivy poisoning occurs nowhere in the
world except on this continent and one of the oddities
recorded by the earlv settlers was that the American Indian
did not break out with the rash. It seems the Indians de
veloped their immunity to the plant by carefully munching
on poison-ivy leaves!
Researchers felt it would be more practical to inject
poison-ivy extracts directly into the blood stream. The
first such injections were tried in the early 1920s, but
proved both ineffective and harmful: ivy poisoning flared
up at the point of injection. Many of the extracts required
daily injections, a procedure that discouraged self-admin-
isu-ation at home.
I N 1936, lewis e. miller, a research chemist, began work
'on an extract that could be taken bv mouth. In studying
oral preparations, he found that several country doctors
had given ivv extracts in nlr-nhnl with some success. Un
desirable reactions, however, were common.
Chemist Miller reasoned that these resulted when the
alcohol content was too high. He felt certain that alcohol,
in proper proportion, would make the ideal base.
out what should the proportion be? It wasn t until law
that he was able to develop a proper dosage schedule for
toe new antigen, thus making the preparation ready for
scientific clinical studies to determine its over-all effects.
One of the first to study the new preparation was Dr.
Elmer R. Gross of Temple University school of medicine.
From 1953 through 1957, Dr. Gross administered the drug
to 455 persons, all susceptible to ivy poisoning and victims
of numerous previous attacks.
Included in this study were persons ranging in age from
four to 62; campers, golfers, fishermen, hunters, and house
wives. There were 177 tree-service workers to whom
poison ivy was a common occupational hazard.
During each Summer following treatment, more than
half the persons participating in the study were completely
free of ivy poisoning. An additional 30 percent had excep
tionally mild attacks, these being persons who in previous
years had been severely stricken. The others who suffered
ivy poisoning were found to have been exposed to the
plant within two weeks after they had started taking the
antigen, too short a time to have acquired a sufficient
immunity. Yet most of these cases were mild, too.
Typical was the experience of 16-year-old Arthur Sim
mons. Every Summer for 13 years he had suffered severe
attacks of poison ivy. Then he joined Dr. Gross' study
group. The past few Summers were the first since he was
three that Arthur did not suffer the infection.
Comments Dr. Gross on his five-year study: "It exceeded
my fondest expectations. Last year the candidates for ivy
poisoning had uneventful Summers, even the youngsters
who went to camp. Previously the majority of these chil
dren had two to three attacks a season."
Dr. Leon Goldman of the University of Cincinnati col
lege of medicine reports "few failures in very sensitive
individuals" among those he tested.
Dr. Charlotte Backus-Jordan of Stroudsburg, Pa., who
has been studying the effectiveness of the drug on private
patients, reports: "I have dozens of patients who have
kept free from poison ivy or who have had much milder
attacks, as a result of having taken it in the Spring."
Perhaps an even more encouraging note was contained
in a report to the clinical meeting of the American Medical
Association last December in Minneapolis. There Dr.
Robert J. Langs of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
New York, told of his work with a pill which brought
about immunity in 66 out of 68 patients with a previous
affinity for poison-ivy rash. Dr. Langs also said that studies
on 142 Coast Guardsmen showed that the tablet form
offered satisfactory protection against poison ivy.
No person who is sensitive to poison ivy is entirely safe
from the possibility of ivy poisoning. The annoying vine
is found in all parts of the United States, but especially
from Texas to the Eastern seaboard. Farmers head the list
of the most frequent sufferers. Highway workers are next.
Following on the list are vacationers, week-end golfers,
fishermen, hikers, and campers.
What most people don't realize is that it isn't necessary
to come in direct contact with poison ivy to acquire the
rash. The poisonous oily sap is found on the leaves, stems,
and even roots of the plant. Dogs that appear to be immune
to it often carry the ivy toxin on their hair.
Golf balls, garden tools, fishing tackle, shoes, almost any
thing that touches any part of the plant may carry the
poison pitch. Even the smoke from burning plants will
infect a sensitive person some distance away.
Persons have been afflicted by the dried plant juice a
year or more after the plant bloomed. Some have gotten
ivy poisoning in Winter from frozen and dead ivy plants!
There are very few cases of complete immunity to poison
ivy. The so-called immune person is usually one who
recognizes these leaves and respects them by avoiding
them. Slight contact, such as walking through and touching
leaves once or twice, usually is not enough to cause poison
ing. Still, the most casual contact will affect some persons.
The preventive developed by chemist Miller is not a cure
for poison ivy. Once the rash breaks out, there are oint
ments, lotions, and other palliatives to relieve the itching
and lessen the swelling and redness of the skin.
Neither is the protection offered by the new drug per
manent Poison-ivy sufferers must repeat the treatment
each Spring. But taken as recommended, it has proved
highly effective in preventing ivy poisoning or lessening
the severity of the ailment in persons highly sensitive to
the noxious plant.
Family Weekly, March 1, 1859
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