1. Immediately find the bee sting at the stung area and pull it out, and then use cupping to suck out the poisonous juice to reduce the absorption of toxins.

2． Wash the area with 3% ammonia solution, 5% sodium bicarbonate solution or soapy water. For wasp stings, do not apply medicine but apply acetic acid or vinegar to the area.

3． You can apply Nantong snake medicine around the wound or pound any one of the following herbs for external application, such as purpurea, lobelia, Aesculus, dandelion, etc.

Use a sterile needle to remove the sting from the sting of the poisonous bee in the flesh, then pinch the stung part hard and suck repeatedly with your mouth to suck out the toxin.

If there is no medicine around you, you can wash the affected area thoroughly with soap and water, and then apply some vinegar or lemon.

First aid for bee stings -

In case the injured person goes into shock, when notifying the emergency center or on the way to the hospital, pay attention to keeping the injured person's breathing smooth and Provide first aid treatment such as artificial respiration and cardiac massage.

Notes

1. After being stung by a poisonous bee, applying ammonia to the affected area is basically ineffective because the histamine in bee venom cannot be neutralized with ammonia.

2． Wasps are venomous, but bees are not. After being stung by a bee, the broken stinger must be removed first. Unlike wasps, you can apply ammonia, baking soda or soapy water to the wound.

3． If you are asymptomatic 20 minutes after being stung by a bee, you can rest assured.

Cleaning: Once stung by a bee, clean the wound with warm water, soapy water, salt water, or sugar water. If water is not available, fresh urine will also work. If any sting remains in the wound, it should be removed immediately.

. Application: Wanhua oil, safflower oil, green ointment, etc. can be used. You can also mash and chew ginger, garlic, purslane (a kind of wild vegetable) and apply it to the wound.

See a doctor: If you have symptoms such as headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, irritability, fever, etc., you should go to the hospital for treatment immediately.

What are the symptoms of bee stings?

There are many types of bees, such as bees, wasps, bumblebees, bumblebees, etc. Drone bees are harmless because they have no venom glands and stingers; the ones that sting are all female bees (worker bees). The female bees have stingers connected to the venom glands at the end of their abdomen. When the stingers pierce the human body, they immediately inject venom.

When a bee stings a person, it often leaves its stinger on the injured area; while a wasp retracts its stinger after stinging a person and can continue to hurt people. Bee venom mainly contains formic acid, neurotoxins, histamine, etc., which can cause hemolysis and bleeding, have an inhibitory effect on the central nervous system, and can also cause allergic reactions in some stung victims. After a person is stung by a bee, in mild cases, only local redness, pain, and burning sensation may occur. There may also be blisters, ecchymoses, and local lymph node enlargement, which will disappear on their own within a few hours to 1 to 2 days. If the body is stung by bees in multiple places, it often causes systemic symptoms such as fever, headache, dizziness, nausea, irritability, and fainting. People allergic to bee venom can cause urticaria, rhinitis, swelling of lips and eyelids, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting. In severe cases, it can cause laryngeal edema, asthma, difficulty breathing, coma, and eventually death due to respiratory and circulatory failure.

202. What to do after a bee sting?

After being stung by a bee, you can treat it as follows:

(1) Check the injured area. If there is a stinger in the skin, remove it first.

(2) If you are stung by a bee, because bee venom is acidic, you can use soapy water or 3% ammonia, 5% sodium bicarbonate, saline, etc. to wash and apply the wound. If you are stung by a wasp, wash it with vinegar and apply it on the wound. You can also wash fresh purslane and squeeze its juice and apply it to the wound.

(3) If you have Nantong Snake Medicine (Jidedu Snake Medicine), you can dissolve the tablets in warm water and apply it around the wound; or grind it into powder and apply it to the affected area with Zijinqian or Liushen Pills. It has the effects of detoxification, pain relief and swelling reduction.

(4) Folk single prescriptions are available:

① Mash garlic or ginger or apply the juice to the affected area.

② Cut fresh eggplants into pieces and apply to the affected area; or add an appropriate amount of sugar, pound together and apply. ③ Mash fresh purple flowers, lobelia, dandelions, wild chrysanthemums, leeks, etc. together or individually and apply to the affected area.

(5) If there is an allergic reaction, mild cases can take 1 tablet of astemizole, once a day; or 4 mg of permethrin, 3 times a day. Those with severe symptoms should be sent to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.

To summarize, what I couldn’t remember before was bees/wasps, but now I remember that bee stings are actually treated with alkaline.

Waste stings are treated with acid.

What we often encounter in the wild are wasps, so keep acid treatments in mind.

The purslane mentioned above is as shown below. In my hometown, it is called pigweed and is specially used to feed pigs. I often see it on the edge of fields, but I didn’t expect it to have a detoxifying effect on wasp venom.