| I was mushrooming last fall and found a great specimen. Unfortunately it was growing near poison ivy. A friend harvested the giant mushroom and pulled away the leaf that was on one end of the mushroom. We divvied up the mushroom and ate it. About 3 days later, I had a rash on my shoulder, on my midriff on my thigh (not near any large lymph areas) seemingly random rashes. They looked like poison ivy rashes, initially very itchy and then raised and then oozy. It took about 2 weeks for them to resolve. Is it possible to ingest P.I. and have it surface on random places in the body? How would this be possible? I am open to it being coincidence but it was puzzling and very itchy. |
