What should I do if I get stung by a bee
1. Picking: After being stung by a bee, a broken thorn will be left at the stung position. You can't ignore the bee's broken sting. People who need to be stung or relatives and friends around them need to pick out the broken thorns to avoid the inflammation and deterioration of the wound.
2. Apply baking soda water: After picking out the thorn, you need to apply baking soda water to the wound to neutralize the toxicity. If there is no baking soda water, you can use soapy water and salt water instead. If the situation is urgent, fresh urine can also clean the stung wound. It is worth noting that after being stung by poisonous bees, soapy water is ineffective and should be sent to the hospital immediately for treatment.
3. Apply medicine: After cleaning the wound, you can apply some medicine to the stung position, such as mashed wild chrysanthemum, garlic and ginger. Or you can ask the clinic to buy medicine specially for bee bites and apply it to the wound.
4. Precautions: Experts suggest that severe bee stings may lead to mental disorders, dyspnea, dizziness and fainting. In this case, the patient must be sent to the hospital in time to avoid any accidents. If you are stung by a bee, there are not many symptoms after the above treatment. It is recommended to go to the hospital for examination to avoid leaving health hazards.
What are the manifestations of bee stings?
There are many kinds of bees, such as bees, wasps, bumblebees and native bees. The drone is harmless because it has no poisonous glands and stingers; All the stings are female bees (worker bees), and the female bees have stings connected with poisonous glands at the end of their abdomen. When the thorns pierce the human body, they immediately inject venom. When bees sting people, they often leave the sting at the wound; After the wasp stings people, it will take back the sting and continue to hurt people.
Bee venom mainly contains formic acid, neurotoxin and histamine, which can cause hemolysis and bleeding, inhibit the central nervous system and cause allergic reactions to some stings. After being stung by bees, people may only have symptoms such as local redness, pain, burning sensation, blisters, ecchymosis and local lymph node enlargement, which will disappear within a few hours to 1-2 days.
If you are stung by bees in many places, it will often cause fever, headache, dizziness, nausea, restlessness, fainting and other systemic symptoms. People who are allergic to bee venom can cause urticaria, rhinitis, swelling of lips and eyelids, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, and some serious people can cause laryngeal edema, asthma, dyspnea, coma, and finally die of respiratory and circulatory failure.
After being stung by a bee, it can be treated as follows.
(1) Check the wound. If there is a thorn in the skin, pull it out first.
(2) If you are stung by a bee, because bee venom is acidic, you can choose soapy water or 3% ammonia water, 5% sodium bicarbonate solution, salt water, etc. Clean the wound. If you are stung by a wasp, you should wash it with vinegar, or you can wash and juice fresh purslane and apply it to the wound.
(3) If there is Nantong Snake Medicine (Jide Abdominal Snake Medicine), Kurt tablets should be dissolved in warm water and applied around the wound; Or use Zijin Zhan or Liushen Pill to grind the powder and wet compress the affected area, which has the functions of detoxification, pain relief and swelling reduction.
(4) You can choose folk prescription: ① Mash garlic or ginger or take juice and apply it to the affected area. ② Cut the fresh eggplant and smear it on the affected area; Or add a proper amount of white sugar and mash the coating together. (3) Mashing fresh Herba Violae, Lobelia Chinensis, Taraxacum mongolicum, Flos Chrysanthemi Indici and leek, and applying them to the affected area together or separately.
(5) In case of allergic reaction, mild patients can take 1 tablet daily, 1 time; Or promethazine 4 mg three times a day. Those with severe symptoms should be sent to hospital for treatment as soon as possible.
What should I do if I am stung by a bee? How can I reduce swelling if I am stung by a bee? All the above are detailed introductions, which can help you to deal with it correctly.