wasp sting

Turning_into_scrooge

pageee2004 wrote:

Help! I was stung by a wasp this afternoon and it is still hurting, what can i use to stop it hurting...

Any advise/help would be greatly appreciated

Oh you poor love. I have a bad allergy to wasp stings and if I'm stung i have to take anti histamine which i always have on me by prescription and i also need to be checked out by a doctor or a hospital as i have gone very dizzy and hit the floor before now. I have to say though that the reaction i get from wasp stings is worsening as I'm getting older.

If you call into your local pharmacy nd show the pharmacist they will be able to advise what to use.

Turning_into_scrooge

MickKnipfler wrote:

Is a bee sting worse than a wasp sting?

(I mean for the person, not the bee!)

I think it kills the bee as they only have 1 or 2 stings in them and they are actually i think a protected species same as bats. Useless info i know. You usually have to pull the sting out with a bee not a wasp but strange thing is for some reason i always end up with a bit of the wasp sting left in me which takes quite a while to work its way out, the last one took 2 months. I must be very strange :eek:

Savvy_Sue

Turning_into_scrooge wrote:

I think it kills the bee as they only have 1 or 2 stings in them and they are actually i think a protected species same as bats. Useless info i know. You usually have to pull the sting out with a bee not a wasp but strange thing is for some reason i always end up with a bit of the wasp sting left in me which takes quite a while to work its way out, the last one took 2 months. I must be very strange :eek:

Just above half-way down this page is a description of the difference between the way a wasp stings, and the way a bee stings. They both have barbs in their stings (which I didn't realise), only a bee's barbs are bigger, so he leaves the sting behind and dies. I expect it's a bit of barb left behind, so it doesn't sound strange at all to me ...

What was strange was my reaction last time I was stung by a bee. I was saying "Don't hurt it, don't flap at it, it will sting me", and I carried on doing this AFTER the bally thing had stung me, and it took me several seconds to realise that as it was now in the process of stinging me I was perfectly entitled to squash the little beggar! :rotfl:

Toothsmith

Savvy_Sue wrote:

What was strange was my reaction last time I was stung by a bee. I was saying "Don't hurt it, don't flap at it, it will sting me", and I carried on doing this AFTER the bally thing had stung me, and it took me several seconds to realise that as it was now in the process of stinging me I was perfectly entitled to squash the little beggar! :rotfl:

If only world leaders adopted such a sensible approach!