![]() ![]() Most pets are not sensitive to poison ivy, but the oil can stick to their fur and cause a reaction in someone who pets them. Use pet shampoo and water while wearing rubber gloves, such as dishwashing gloves. Wash your pet if it may have brushed up against poison ivy, oak, or sumac.If you think you may be working around poison ivy, wear long sleeves, long pants tucked into boots, and impermeable gloves. Wash your garden tools and gloves regularly.Learn what poison ivy, oak, and sumac plants look like so you can avoid them ( watch our video).Even if blisters break, the fluid in the blisters is not plant oil and cannot further spread the rash. But this is either because the plant oil is absorbed at different rates on different parts of the body or because of repeated exposure to contaminated objects or plant oil trapped under the fingernails. It may seem like the rash is spreading if it appears over time instead of all at once. The rash will occur only where the plant oil has touched the skin, so a person with poison ivy can’t spread it on the body by scratching. The plant oil lingers (sometimes for years) on virtually any surface until it’s washed off with water or rubbing alcohol. But it is possible to pick up the rash from plant oil that may have stuck to clothing, pets, garden tools, and other items that have come in contact with these plants. Poison ivy and other poison plant rashes can’t be spread from person to person. May have yellow-greenish flowers and whitish-green fruits hang in loose clusters. ![]() Leaves are orange in spring, green in summer, and yellow, orange, or red in fall. Each leaf has clusters of seven to 13 smooth-edged leaflets.
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