Sunburn vs Poison Ivy

which is worse poison ivy or. sunburn I'm Adelaide from melbour. Australia let's talk about. [Music]. [Applause]. that good mythical morning this episode. is brought to you by the r link. Community where you can converse and. create with other mythical beasts you. can also mail us stuff like Jason the. cacto did he made this hat out of duct.

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to kill a case of poison I you say well. at least you don't have sunburn for X Y. and Z reasons or vice versa or vice. versa depending on how things go little. background here do you know that the oil. the reason that poison ivy poison oak. and poison sumac all give you this rash. is because they all have an oil called. urial urial the body attacks okay. basically what ends up happening yishi. oil no it's actually yishi oil Ural and.

that is an oil it's a type of oil that. is in these plants and that comes in. contact with your skin it basically. binds to your skin and then your body. attacks the dermal layer that's the skin. that is basically has this stuff on it. and that creates a rash and guess what. percentage of the population is. susceptible to this because there are. some people who don't get it um. 50% 85% are susceptible 85% of people. exposed to urial will develop up a rash.

some people are more susceptible than. others uh I am definitely in the 85% as. I know you are oh yeah I've gotten it. really bad before and here's two quick. myths that a lot of people have you know. that scratching poison ivy will not the. myth is it will spread the rash if you. scratch the poison ivy not true the only. time that you can actually and it. doesn't get in the bloodstream and move. to other parts of your body that's also. a myth it's the oil the oil comes in. contact with your skin and the only. thing that can actually cause the rash. is the Unbound oil that's on the leaves. and stuff coming in contact with your.

skin and it pops up in other places. because skin reacts differently and in. different times depending on the makeup. of the skin H and the other thing is is. it's contagious that's not true I can't. take poison ivy even if it's open and. oozing I can't take it and put it up. against a sore on you or your skin and. give you poison ivy that can't happen. really it's only the initial contact so. it's not contagious that's a myth so. that's that that's that's an argument. for sunburn being worse because it is. contagious oh yeah if I could give you a.

I just give you a sunburn like that in a. heart no neither one are contagious so. we're not learning anything here and. there's been one at least one recorded. death from poison ivy efim Scott in 1895. went to pick poison ivy because his kids. thought it looked cool and then three. weeks later he died he died of being an. idiot yeah and you can say that now. because it's over a century later it's. not too soon tell us about sunburn he's. the only one now with sunburn you got. the UV light ultraviolet and that. attacks your epidermis that's the living. skin did you know the skin on the.

outside that skin that you can touch is. dead and your epidermis is creating new. skin and new skin and new skin but UV. like it's down there and it I'm saying. it Cooks I didn't read anywhere that. sunburn is actually humans cooking. that's just me talking that's not even. Wikipedia talking but what I have read. is that the UV light kills the skin. cells they get damaged and they start. dying and then your immune system says. oh white blood cells to the rescue and. it sends white blood cells there via.

blood which makes it turn red inflamed. yeah and then um and you you start to. smell like. cheeseburgers that part is not true I. just made that up too that again is. coming from me and I feel okay as long. as I tell you that I I don't I couldn't. find any documented cases of people. dying from sunburn. directly but people you know if you get. burnt so badly that your skin blisters. up it's basically like any other burn. which could get infected and you can. definitely die from an infection of.

blisters indirectly you can die. indirectly well and then indirectly. indirectly in in terms of it being a. cancer you know causing skin cancer of. course melanoma so I you know right out. of the bat even before we get to the. mythical perspectives sunburn has a leg. up because it causes cancer I don't. think poison ivy causes cancer when you. say a leg up you mean it's worse you. don't mean it's better we're saying. which one is worse we're asking which. one is worse it has a leg up by causing. cancer I mean what are some of the. mythical perspectives on poison ivy.

being worse nebular Artisan Artisan says. I am very allergic to poison ivy I have. scars on my arms from when I got it. almost 3 years ago as of yet I have no. scars from sunburn so poison ivy is way. worse in my opinion scarring I didn't. know you could get scarring if. apparently this person got it really bad. H I would rather have poison ivy drunk. catfish says because you can actually. move your body without it hurting.

poison ivy just itches and you can. ignore it but a sunburn hurts until it. goes away you you just kind of you walk. around as if you've been cryogenically. frozen and then that person goes hey how. you. doing you know and then it's over yeah. that that is another thing that's. horrible about sunburn is that some. someone says in here I'll go ahead and. read this one uh Kaye 5095 says sunburns. are definitely worse because there's no. hiding a sunburn it's you know you look. look like a lobster you look you look.

stupid but the parts that you can hide. are also worse about sunburn because of. that because of the grab the shoulder. Factor you forget how many times people. grab your shoulder until you've had. sunburn but if you get sunburn if you. get poison ivy on your face which I have. had happen oh it shows up friend let me. tell you I've heard of people getting. getting Poison Ivy in their mouth well. let me tell you about this okay I'm a. kid I'm with Ben Greenwood good friend. that we grew up with and we find we're. we're playing a dump we're playing at.

like a dump a a landfill essentially. small town you couldn't find an. abandoned house so you went to the dump. the nearest dump and on the exterior of. the dump around it there are these oh. really soft green leaves oh oh yeah and. I knew it poison ivy looked like I knew. it wasn't poison ivy but I think it was. oak or sumac because it got me we climb. up into this and we sit down and you got. naked we were both in shorts and. t-shirts and like flip-flops we lay down. in it and like have a conversation about. elementary school life and then and. you're like wallowing I'm I'm like.

rolling over listening to him you know. I'm like every single part of my my. exposed body is in this for like an hour. it sounds like you having a good time. are you sure it wasn't worth it yeah a. day later it begins breaking out I had. to stay home from school because I had. poisoned something everywhere face front. back legs. hands and that was an embarrassing time. so I mean at least for the way I I. haven't ever gotten sunburn that so for. me personally that was the worst.

experience between the two options now. we would go out in the woods a lot uh. sometimes with Ben like you mentioned I. got I got poison I be so bad one time or. sumac or oak or whatever it was I. remember that my my entire leg was. nothing but just poison ivy just pops. kind of growing up it wasn't just little. bumps it was the whole leg was swollen I. had to sleep with wet towels on my legs. and I would scratch in my sleep and that. would make it worse even though as you. say it wouldn't make it transfer it.

causes an infection that's the thing I. read when you when you scratch you're. not supposed to scratch it but it won't. spread it what will happen is it will. cause an infection that you'll get even. more inflammation April star says short. term I think poison ivy is worse my. husband had a bad case right before our. wedding it luckily cleared up right in. time to get married because as you know. you cannot get married if you have. poison ivy at least in the continental. United States and my mom my mom's eyes. have swollen almost closed from poison. ivy before I've rarely seen such. immediate bad results from sunburn but.

long term I think sunburn is worse. because of the possibility of skin. cancer short-term long-term dilemma the. super math M I don't know how to say her. name sunburn treatment is bathing in. milk poison ivy is a cream would you. like to buy 10 gallons of milk for. falling asleep outside no of course not. sunburn is worse because you have to. purchase 10 gallons of milk to treat. yourself now never heard that one cop.

720 says you're going to have to trust. me on this one poison oak or poison ivy. can last for days at best often weeks. also it can swell and ooze so you have. to be bandaged at all times it's itchy. but it also hurts and if you get it on. your face you might as well dig a hole. and die in. it I've gotten sunburn once and I I was. wishing near death on myself I wanted to. dig a hole and get in it because the. sunburn Christian and I went to ochre.

Coke this is we've been married one year. and I fell asleep on the beach and I. woke. up front side up or I was face up okay. so and right here like inside of my. collar bones it just felt like it was it. felt like I had been it served me on a. platter I had been cooked it was so. gross and people would see me walking. around you know walking around town. going going to the restaurant that night. hey did you walk like that I walk like.

this cuz I had sunburn I was trying to. compensate with over coolness in myself. hey I'm cool and people would just stop. you know how you stop when you see a. cute baby women stop and say oh your. baby's so cute people were stopping me. and saying oh you you look so like. you're in pain I'm so sorry people would. stop me strangers and apologize for me. that's how bad it was sunburn is. definitely worse longterm and shortterm. because I'd say they're equally. miserable in the short term uh here's.

one last interesting uh perspective RJ. manosa talks about the slap test to. determine which is worse poison ivy is. worse because if you get slapped where. it is affected no that she's saying. sunburn is worse I'm sorry poison ivy I. don't know what she means here let me. just read this a different way. paraphrase if you get slapped where you. have poison ivy it won't hurt it'll. actually feel better if you get slapped.

where you have sunburn it'll hurt like. heck so sunburn is worse if you can slap. it and it feels better which I have had. Poison Ivy and I've slapped myself. because you get crazy you slap yourself. silly uh I am going to say uh that I. believe that poison ivy is. worse simply because sunburn subsides. more quickly and I think that you can. the the skin cancer thing first of all. sunburn is more easily manageable I mean.

it's just like you you can you can stay. out of the sun you can put on sunscreen. with with poison ivy there's you're out. there in the woods you're lost it's dark. you don't know what color you can't see. the plants you can just happen you can. get sunburn anywhere you don't have to. be in the woods matter of fact if you. are in the woods you probably won't get. it and then when you get it it's a it's. a sunburn lasts for such a short period. of time and then if you get melanoma. later on you just go to the skin the. dermatologist on a regular basis and get. them cut off catch it early enough is. what saying poison IV's worse is where.

that's where I'm landing on this what do. you think Oh and next week more. importantly we need to get your Mythic. perspective for next week's show which. is. better ice cream or yogurt frozen yogurt. frozen yogurt versus ice cream now. there's a lot of nuances to this. argument so dig into it some people talk. about the health some people talk about. other things ingredients the the. experience when you go to visit the the. said institution quite a spin there link. talk about it link performs brain.

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