Bee or wasp sting - advice neeed.......

[wolf63]

I was lying in bed earlier reading my Bella magazine and there was a sharp pain in my leg. I scratched it but it kept getting more and more painful.

Later I found a dying wasp or bee on the bed. It has just left the flat via a third floor window.

My leg hurts like hell and is a little swollen - I have taken paracetemol and antihistamine tabs. Is there any thing else that I can so to stop the pain?

I was going to post this in B&S but I could die of venom poisoning before I got any helpful answers there.

;-)

[mccfluff]

i'm sure my mum always used to put vinegar on stings

[stokemaveric]

check to see if the sting is still in the punchture wound wolf...

[follyfancier]

if it was a bee the sting would still be in your skin so it was probably a wasp if you didnt see anything ,they are also much brighter yellow that bees
the remedies are to apply vinegar on a wasp sting and baking soda on a bee sting

[wolf63]

Stoke - can't see anything. I can't believe that I have gotten to the age of ** and this is my first bite.

Fluff and follyfancier - will try the vinegar. I hope it doesn't hurt or make me smell like a bag of chips.

It is usually cat bites and scratches that I suffer from. They can get nasty and are painful.

Susan

[mccfluff]

with you on the cat bites, when i walk into casualty now the nurse just looks at me sighs and says "psycho cat?"

[mollykins]

More wasps die from stinging you than bees do so because what you put on it as one sting is acidic and the alkali . . . .

[wolf63]

I have to give Frankie his inhaler twice a day, he is a good natured cat but as he doesn't understand why he needs to sit with his little mask on he sometimes struggles.

My boobs look like they have been used as a dart board. There are a couple of long scratches too. I am diabetic and they take ages to heal properly.

He only bites if he is really hacked off and even then he doesn't break the skin. Princess Merlin is like your moggie - a female killing psycho. She is pretty stupid too.
She has just arrived and is about to leap onto the desk - she doesn't like being ignored.

The pain has died down in my leg. ;-)

[Sqad]

Wolf
<<<I was going to post this in B&S but I could die of venom poisoning before I got any helpful answers there. <<<<

if it hasnt killed you by now, it never will.

Antihistamine cream should settle it down.

[TTG]

A bees sting has barbs on it so cannot be pulled out of human skin. The bee dies in its attempt to pull the sting out.unfortunately. I would say chances are it was a bee that stung you.

[TheOtherHalf]

I always remember it as V for vinegar ,next letter W for wasps
B for Bicarb of soda and Bees

I think thats right. But then its W for both ( a tot of whisky for the shock )

hope you ok now

[wolf63]

I think that I will survive the injury - but it does hurt quite a bit.

Thanks for all the help.

sqad - I got my first flu jab the other week. The doctor told me to sit down for ten minutes and then I could go home. He said that if I didn't keel over and die within that period of time then I was going to be fine. He was right.

[McMouse]

I've never read Bella in bed and have so far avoided both wasp and bee stings.......just shows really.

[Rodge2]

Good tip to remember which to apply is Wasps - Winegar. Just mentioning this because I still have screaming nightmares recalling the time when my very 'intelligent' mother applied bicarbonate of soda to my wasp sting. Augghhhhh!