Poison Ivy – Detection

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Many rashes may look like poison ivy, but are not. Any allergic contact dermatitis or plant dermatitis from the toxicodendron family, including poison oak and sumac can also look like poison ivy. Other items that can look similar include chemical irritant dermatitis, insect, bug, and arthropod bites, dishydrotic eczema, toxic epidermal necrolysis or Steven’s Johnson syndrome, blistering disorders, such as bullous pemphigoid and pemphigus vulgaris, bullous impetigo, neurotic excoriations and variations of eczema, including discoid or nummular dermatitis.