I think I posted this here before - a friend of mine contracted the poison
ivy rash from her nursing toddler. The child himself must have had some
kind of immunity because he was not broken out, but Mom was mystified for a
long period over the angry rashes that appeared on her upper chest and
breasts after nursing her 3 year old (who of course had been playing in
their wooded yard and was then snuggling up against Mom and rubbing little
fingers into her chest). She related it to the BF and actually weaned for a
couple of weeks, because it was so painful, till the toddler got sick and
resumed nursing. Again the rash appeared, this time around Mom's neck. Then
they discovered the poison ivy patch, killed it, and the rash never came back.
Anne Merewood