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The more repeated exposures you get, your body cannot fight it off anymore. Then you suddenly "become allergic" to poison ivy.

There are two types of people; those that are allergic to poison ivy, and those that will become allergic eventually.

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I am almost forty now, never try to avoid it, still no problems. I even had a side gig going in high school removing it. But it is still only any anecdote.

like the gardeners these days, did you hype the poison oak only to ask for a big $ amount to remove a small growth haha?

No, people know how it looks here. Usually it was full walls of the stuff.

I never got a rash until my late 30s (even after known exposure). Now I get the rash readily. I wish I'd avoided it more when I was younger.

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