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tsimionesculast Sunday at 7:13 AM1 replyview on HN

Poison ivy is a plant that causes a topical rash, antibiotics can't help in any way with this. Maybe you've mistyped something?


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mcnylast Sunday at 7:24 AM

When poison ivy spreads on skin, you have broken skin barrier with yellow liquid coming out. Then the places this yellow liquid touched also gets itchy and you now have multiple broken skin barrier everywhere.

When skin barrier gets broken like this, you are now vulnerable to bacterial infection.

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