I also love working in our garden, and the poison ivy plants I really don`t like. You say it looked like you have 3rd degree burns, how true that is. Ever since I was a kid I am avoiding poison ivy. I got a new bike when I was 9 years old and I wanted to try it. My parents up front of me on their bikes, and I was enjoying myself, looking around me. All of a sudden I got of track and landed in a ditch that was full of poison ivy. That was really bad, my skin was burned and it took a while before it was healed, and the terrible itch brrrrr. So I have coconut oil in the house and will put it on w