WOW! One said I did it to myself. can it infect other people? Our yard is loaded with it this year. Im all about natural remedies!! It's simply too easy to get accidental exposure while working around the plants in close quarters. That drew down fluid in the blisters and theyre healing nicely. Extremities eventually become cold, and the person may tremble, collapse and fall into a coma. A few years went by and it grew to three feet tall and three feet around but I hadnt used it for anything but had been ranting to everyone about how great it was supposed to be. Now I know I get it from weeding in my yard and trail running. Garden parsnip and wild parsnip are both different varieties of the same species Pastinaca sativa. That is not a pleasant rash, itches like crazy!! cow parsnips and nettles, I can hang them up at the end of the day and dont have pick up any irritation the next morning. Yours is the first! Vesicles and crusts appeared over the ensuing 24hours. There has NEVER, and I do mean NEVER been anything that has helped me with Poison oak, until this. (Next to impossible when you keep working, I know.). I must have broken some of the stems, and got the sap on my hands and feet. The image at the top of the post is my left elbow on day three after exposure. Here's a kicker there are wide range of plants that can cause this condition that you might never suspect. Intentional ingestion of large quantities of oleander may cause toxicity similar to digoxin. Simply touching an oleander plant can cause skin irritation, particularly if you come into contact with the plant sap. Thanks for this post! In: Kellerman RD, Rakel DP, eds. and transmitted securely. Don't fear the plants, just don't handle them in such a way that you set yourself up for some serious discomfort. Appreciate your posting the treatment too. My daughter had hers on her knees and the dermatoligist decided it needed to be biopsied because he had tried everything he could think of. I dont know, but nursing blisters on my left hand again from thinning out the carrot patch, and I tried to be as careful as I possibly could and wore gloves for most of the time. Zinc oxide allows me to function in the garden. Am I just being paranoid? 2019 Dec 16;13(Suppl 11):14. doi: 10.1186/s12919-019-0177-6. That is what the parsnips plant is doing!! It was everywhere. I still have a scar from 2 years ago, but its not very visible. Initially it was thought I picked something up from the snorkel fin. The poisonous substances are found in all parts of the oleander plant: Oleander poisoning can affect many parts of the body. What you are describing sounds like the arm covering gloves used when checking/pulling calves. I did not know it could do this. Just out of interest did you have sunscreen on your skin at the time? I recently got what I thought was poison oak. Looks like poison ivy/oak rash. How awful. Now I cut one leg off track pants ,to cover my arm ,rub barrier cream liberally on any exposed areas ,then put on latex gloves as well. *laughing* Now I know it wasnt the wretched poison oaks (my sons name for the rash) *snert giggle snert* but the wretched PPD instead!