RE: The stand "itch"
I used to not get poison ivy. Could rub it on me til the cows came home with no effect, same with poison sumac and poison oak. Then, one day I was pulling a bunch of it out of a hedge (my roommate was highly allergic and I did this for his birthday present). There were some briars in the hedge and I got scratched up. The oil from the poison ivy got under my skin and made me itch for a month! I haven’t gotten it since then, but I’m careful now about not getting it in any scratches. Also, in my experience, it can be transmitted from person to person, if they rub their skin against an infected area that is “weeping”, as the oil transmits the itch.