Poison Oak Rash

Anyone can be affected by allergy caused by poison oak. The poison oak rashes are caused in the skin when it is exposed to the plant that goes by the same name, a plant that usually grows in mountainous areas.

Explicitly a poison oak rash is an allergic reaction to urushiol, which is an oil that is located in poison oak. The roots, leaves and stems of poison oak are rich in urushiol oil.

Urushiol can be without difficulty transferred from Poison Oak to other objects, including clothing, toys, tools and animals. This chemical can continue active for a year or more. It is essential to know that the oils can also be transferred from clothing, pets that have made contact with the plant.

Poison Oak Rash Your skin may come into contact with this oil in the following situations:

  • Touching any part of the plant.
  • Touching any article or thing that has been in touch with the urushiol oil or the poison oak.
  • By getting in contact with the fur of an animal that has been near the urushiol oil or poison oak.
  • As you inhale smoke from burning poison oak.

Scratching the blisters produced by poison oak does not produce a spread of the rash, as this is not contagious; the only element capable of causing this rash is the urishiol oil which is present in the sap of poison oak.

Because the allergic reaction caused by poison oak is classified most of the time as a type of poison ivy.