This is what poison ivy looks like and believe me autism or not this kid would have scratched at his rash until be broke skin and drew blood.
Posted on 08/07/2009 12:02:45 AM PDT by dannyboy72a
That is exactly what poison ivy poisoning looks like. I had it a dozen times a year when I was a kid.
Nice. Big fan of letting boys be boys and getting themselves into trouble, but when you have a son who cannot protect himself verbally or report injuries to you, you get a different perspective. So before you start encouraging a parent of an autistic child to shirk their duties and have “a drink”, grow up a little.
If you don’t want to be helpful, leave the thread. It’s not poison Ivy. I’ve had it many time and tell me how a boy can get poison ivy on the inside of his arm and not anywhere else on his arm. High up on his calve, and nowhere else on thast same leg? Maybe you should have a drink and go find another thread to jeer.
that was my first guess. Poison oak, sumac, or wild cow parsnip can leave large water blisters. My youngest tried to eat cow parsnip when he was about 3, and suffered blisters all over his face, mouth, and belly. I think he still has a couple of scars at age 36.
Not to throw oil on the fire but is he itching the blisters or are they painful? Burns usually only itch when the dead skin starts to flake off.
If you want your son to have an idiot for a father, than call the police and report your ex for pouring acid on your son.
It is contact dermatitis, and I have been trying to be useful, but you are an idiot who is looking to screw your ex.
Please invite me to any custody hearings so I can testify for your ex.
I know people who have gotten poison ivy blisters on their neck from wearing a just washed shirt that had been slobbered on by a poison ivy eating horse six months before.
Unless you have dealt with special needs children before you should back off. Autistic children have a hard time describing feelings like hunger, of fear let alone understanding how some marks magically appeared on their body.
Well, we’ve had all kinds of problems with his mother. We took the kids for all but 10 days over the last 5 months to let her “get her life together”. But every time he comes back from a day or two with her, it’s something else and it’s gettig ridiculous. This might be something and silly as him bumping into a candle and having wax burn him or him jumping up on her while she was having a cigarette.
I’m not looking to get her in trouble or involve authorities, I just want to know what it is and I wasn’t getting any answers from her, so I turned to you folks, hoping that someone who has seen similar could tell me it’s no big deal, keep it clean and it’ll heal fine - which is I’m sure the answer. But what caused it and should it have been prevented and how can it be prevented in the future. That’s my purpose here.
contact allergy or staph...if they turn blue...then staph
don’t waste your time with old antibiotics...most staph nowadays is used to the old ones
maybe old Bactrim but if not that then the newfangled Miacins...
poor feller
This is what poison ivy looks like and believe me autism or not this kid would have scratched at his rash until be broke skin and drew blood.
that ain’t poison ivy...my 6 year old has it right now...that ain’t it
You need to call the cops. Period. And go to court to get her visitation stopped, she or her boyfriend are sadists or stupid or both.
“Unless you have dealt with special needs children”
What does this have to do with if it is or is not poison ivy!?
That photo is a perfect example of poison ivy!
I’m surrounded by idiots!
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
You know...you are being a very big asshat.
Why don’t you find another thread to go disturb.
You need to call the police and/or Social Services and let them get to the bottom of what is happening when he is with his mother....
If I invite you to the custody hearing it’ll be to kick your ass you peasant. I’m asking a legitimate question, looking for some feedback from others. At 2am, this is the only place to get a live response. Instead of trying to be helpful, you feel it is your right to be an assh#le.
You’re the dumb as a rock 11th grade bully who thinks he knows everything. No wonder you have no family.
Why is it our biggest jerks here almost never even post their flag on their homepage?
This person asks sincerely for help and half the thread is a big Conservaturd in the punch bowl.
It has a lot to do with it. His son cannot describe how things happened to him or what he is feeling at any given moment. To make a more common example, what if your parent who has dementia suddenly had burns or blisters on his arm when you visited him at the nursing home and no one knew how it happened? Wouldn’t you want some answers.
I would look at the blisters and think “oh, I wonder how he got poison ivy?”
His mental state would not enter in to it.
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