Don't mess with a mango tree

Face swelled up and had to go to emergency. They gave me Cortisone that reduced the swelling, but the side effects were worse. The chemical burns caused scars on my face. which 3 months later are just starting to fade. I tried everything from from baking soda to shark liver oil (Hemorroid Medicine) and nothing reverses the skin damage............good luck with the cure.....salt water at 60 feet will probably work....Dave

i have never cut one down but i have used the wood with no reaction
phil

I'm glad you're doing well.

Glad your feeling better Dan.:thumbsup2: Keep that stuff out of your fire place.;)

Cheers, Don

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i have never cut one down but i have used the wood with no reaction
phil

I SHOT this dog snapper with a gun made from the wood and a couple hours later, I opened the cooler and this was all that was left. :laughing:

Wow brother that is horrible. So glad you are back on your feet

Contact dermatitis from urushoil (the substance in poison oak/ivy and apparently mango) is no joke. I absolutely feel your pain, man. Glad to hear that you're finally getting better. Best part of all? Your sensitivity to urishoil will increase the more you are exposed to it.

Next time, as soon as you begin to have a reaction, go to the dermatologist and have him prescribe you a topical steroid. Once the reaction is going full force, topical stuff is worthless, but if you can get it on there as soon as the rash begins to rise and keep applying it twice a day after that, you can knock it back and reduce the severity and duration significantly. I just got over a case of poison oak all down the middle of my back (a PO branch must have slipped down my shirt while I was crawling through thick brush while mushroom hunting) and the topical steroid shortened the misery from a 3 week ordeal to less than 10 days (I only have a tiny bit of residual itchiness now).

This is all assuming that the contact dermatitis from mango is similar to PO (they're both urushoil, so I would think so).

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Contact dermatitis from urushoil (the substance in poison oak/ivy and apparently mango) is no joke. I absolutely feel your pain, man. Glad to hear that you're finally getting better. Best part of all? Your sensitivity to urishoil will increase the more you are exposed to it.

Next time, as soon as you begin to have a reaction, go to the dermatologist and have him prescribe you a topical steroid. Once the reaction is going full force, topical stuff is worthless, but if you can get it on there as soon as the rash begins to rise and keep applying it twice a day after that, you can knock it back and reduce the severity and duration significantly. I just got over a case of poison oak all down the middle of my back (a PO branch must have slipped down my shirt while I was crawling through thick brush while mushroom hunting) and the topical steroid shortened the misery from a 3 week ordeal to less than 10 days (I only have a tiny bit of residual itchiness now).

This is all assuming that the contact dermatitis from mango is similar to PO (they're both urushoil, so I would think so).

I've read that ingesting small amounts of poison oak buds can help build up a resistance. The Chumash and probably other aboriginal tribes suffered no effects from the poison oak.

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Sending "magic" powder from Mexico to the USA... That reminds me something... :rolleyes1:

Dan: Get well soon and let us all know how did you manage to deal with it.

Not magic but solid science. Acetil salicilic acid, (aspirin) peniciline and most drugs come from plants. Hindues are dealing with cancer for centuries with great succes with curcumin and green tea. (Epigalocatequin gallate)

If Dan would had gave a chance to this "magic powder" he would have spared himself a lot of suffering. That´s a fact

Google up tha thing a bit

Mimosa tenuiflora - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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I've read that ingesting small amounts of poison oak buds can help build up a resistance. The Chumash and probably other aboriginal tribes suffered no effects from the poison oak.

most people that have some amount of american Indian in them are immune to poison oak. i can roll around in the stuff and have never been able to get it .
phil