How Do You Treat A Bee Sting?

[Doc Tinker]

What are your home remedies for a bee sting?



Doc

 

[QRTRHRS]

Not home style but Benydrl works for me. Bees are bad this year but that gives me something to do since I have most of the groundhogs shot out.

 

[Steve M]

I had a leaf cutter bee up my pants cuff a couple of years ago. When I reached up to see what was buzzing in my britches, he got me right under the finger nail. I thought, I'm a man... I can handle it. Two hours later I was in the ER getting some cortacosteroids. The bee died. He looked like a brown moth. Mean little *******.

 

[chuck3]

Bee Stings.

When I was a kid growing up on the farm I got stung a lot Doc! My Dad used to put a wad of chewed tobbaco on the sting, seem to work, but hell I was just a kid, allso heard mud worked!

 

[Evan A. Beck]

I have been nailed by hornets, yellow jackets, wasps, everything... I just let it go, and it stops stinging in about 15 mintues. Guess I have some kind of immunity.

 

[Happy Camper]

The old remedy was baking soda. I use and ice cube.

 

[Bob Wagner]

well I may be elder here....

when I was a kid (now 43yrs young) I steped on a bee hive (or nest ) underground and my parents poured pickle juice on the stings. (many bees pricks)



Good? or Bad? maybe this is why I am so screwed up now



oh well not much I can do now

 

[swamp rat]

Once you get the stinger out with sterilized tweezers, soak teh area in vinegar to neutralize the PH in the venom.



Vinegar and moreso Apple Cider Vinegar) works well for a lot of things, sunburn, insect bites, so on and so forth. It really helps stop itching for several hours at a time, and relieves the burning sensation from too much UV.



Meat tenderizer is another good remedy for bee sting and spider bites.



Teatree oil is good for many of the same things, but it is rather expensive for quality oil.

 

[Sled Puller]

HONEY!





Where have you guys been? Draws the poison right out.



Gene

 

[CGoyette]

clorox bleach nothing better





if it still hurts amputate... only is a problem if the dang bee stings you in the head... . some might fine the amputation an improvment

 

[illflem]

I went into the beekeeping business, 1000 hives, after college, so much for my education! I've probably been stung well over 10,000 times, you get used to it to the point that a mosquito bite is much worse. Bee stings have been proven to prevent arthritis. The stinger on a honey bee detaches along with the poison sac which keeps on pulsating, pumping in the venom. The mistake people make is to pinch the stinger to remove it, squeezing in all the venom from the poison sac. To prevent this it's best to scrape the stinger off to remove it. The method I've found is best to keep the swelling down in sensitive people is to apply mud to the sting right away and let it dry, drawing out the venom. There is also a product called Sting-Eze that does much the same thing, but mud is easier to come by. If you are stung close to a hive move away slowly without flapping your arms to avoid multiple stings. When a bee stings you it emits a scent (pheromone) that sends the bees into defense mode, the faster you move the better the target you make. It's best to stand still till the bees mellow out.

 

[Todd G]

How far are the killer bees now? I know around here you have a healthy respect for those little boogers. We now have a super strain caused by dry conditions. They'll attack for almost no reason.

 

[Bigsaint]

A slice of fresh, raw onion works great if it can be applied right after the sting.



Scott W.

 

[dresslered]

I've always used Swamp Rat's (????) remedy: Meat tenderizer.

 

[jwdeeming]

Diesel fuel, what else?!

 

[BFaoro]

ouch

I just ignore it or use mud. My littlest fella can' t do that ,he is highly allergic to those stings, (this is from the doctor) if he gets stung first administer Benadryl in a double dose and moniter the area and his breathing. If he should have a reaction (problems breathing )and we can't get him to the emergency room we have to give him a shot of adrenalin, in a form of an Epi-pin. It is a syringe with a pre metered amount of adrenalin that when you push it on to his leg it shoots him ! Then get him to the emergency room , fast It is spring loaded !!! The best information we got from the doctor was STAY AWAY FROM THE WASPS AND BEES!!!!!