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Bee Stings
« on: January 01, 2011, 09:07:25 AM »
When you happen to have a run in with those nasty burgers, just find you some mud and put on the sting site. Bears do it and it seems to work for them.

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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2011, 10:07:19 AM »
i have used bleech to get the stinger to come out it works well
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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2011, 02:58:39 AM »
My mom used to put a wad of moist tobacco on them.
Seemed to work, pull the poison back out or something.
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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2011, 08:07:01 AM »
I was very skeptical, but the clorox on a q-tip applied ASAP works! I quess it is so caustic that it de-sensitizes the area. Careful,it will stain or eat a hole thru clothing.

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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2011, 04:55:31 PM »
Toothpaste, though somewhat less common and more expensive than mud, works remarkably well

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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2011, 03:09:11 AM »
chefjeff,
I've used the clorox on chiggers before and it worked pretty good for that also.
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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2011, 11:53:54 AM »
  WHEN IN DOUBT......WHIP IT OUT!!!!!!!!!!!

    For many of us, a wasp or hornet sting can be dangerious or even fatal. I am a Scout leader and I am alergic to the stinging bugers. I spoke to a doctor about my Epi kit. He said " When in doubt, whip it out!" The injection will not hurt someone who does not need it but could save the life of someone who does. If you even think someone is alergic and gets stung, whip out the epi pin.
    When I go camping in the summer, I make sure everyone, Scouts and leaders alike know I have an Epi pin and where it is just in case.

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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2011, 12:20:29 PM »
Clorox does work on chiggers.  I have wipped my body in a rag with straight clorox and also gotten into a tub with a strong solution of the stuff.  It helps prevent them from boring in, and it helps with the itch as well.

When I was a child, people put snuff or tobacco on bee sting sites, with enough spit to keep it in place.  Not sure it ever worked.

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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2011, 05:51:01 AM »
When you happen to have a run in with those nasty burgers, just find you some mud and put on the sting site. Bears do it and it seems to work for them.


The best is to use the old black, slimmy pond mud.
Works almost as fast as you can put it on!



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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2011, 07:48:20 PM »
My cousin was an equipment operator for years, meaning, he was stung many times. While at a local small town rodeo, he was stung on the side of the neck. He put a chaw of tobacco on it, 2 hours later he died in the hospital.
 All his internal organs had swelled 2-3 times what they were supposed to be.
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« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2011, 04:28:02 AM »
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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2011, 05:06:04 PM »
I remember as a boy of ten or twelve years of age, we were over at the neighbors for a big summertime barbeque.  I was wearing a pair of shorts and got stung on the thigh of my leg.  My dad came over after hearing me complain of the bee sting and open hand slapped my leg, right where the sting was, and said, " The sting doesn't hurt so bad now does it."  Bee stings haven't bothered me since.
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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2011, 05:43:59 PM »
Another accepted practice from the beekeeper world is to apply heat, like a hair drier. Supposed to deactivate the poison. I haven't tried it yet, but I want to know this stuff, because in a few months I'll be a beekeeper too.

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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2011, 02:58:57 AM »
I have worked bees some in the past and hauled truck loads of them from ND to TX and visa versa. Immediately after being stung quickly scrap your finger nail over the sting site. This cuts the stinger bag off the stinger which contains the poison. When being stung by a bee it leaves the stinger in the skin with a little bag attached. It takes a bit of time for the poison to transfer from the bag. If you can stand it watch the little bag part after being stung and you can see it pulsing in most cases. If you try and pull it out you will just squish the bag which will inject more poison quicker.
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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2011, 04:23:28 PM »
Coal oil is what my family used for chiggers as well as bee stings. The been stings also got a ice cube applied wrapped in a small cloth.

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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2011, 05:47:20 PM »
Bee stings only hurt for a minute or 2 for me. Chiggers and seed ticks get hot bath with pinesol

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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2011, 06:37:59 PM »
guzzijohn is right on the immediate action for a honey bee sting. I normally use my knife blade.  I am allergic to honey bee stings so I carry benadryl with me in the truck.  For me it works as well as an epi pen and doesn't go out of date.  Wasps, of course don't leave the stinger, but if I get hit by several then I take a benadryl.  Red ants will give me a little bit of a problem too if there are too many stings.  I also carry another product called an "Extractor".  It was $10 at WalMart and if I get to it within a minute of being stung, it will draw the major portion of the venom out and I will suffer no ill effects.  It even stops the stinging.  Ticks and chiggers are another story.  Prevention is the key for me.  I spray with off or some other repellant if I suspect ticks.  I hate those little suckers.  There's a product called "Pine Tar Soap" that'll scrub em right off. 


It was really odd on the bee stings.  I could get stung and it would not bother me at all.  In fact, when working a hive I didn't use smoke on a lot if my gentler hives and would get stung with some regularity.  One day it caught up with me and I tried it on a hive of bad bees.  They educated me and I got stung at least 20 times on my neck and face.  That episode did not bother me but the next time I got stung once and my arm swelled up like a football.  From then on the swelling would start immediately upon being stung.  Benadryl fixes it just as fast.  The extractor does as well.  I finally just left the bees to their own devices and bought my honey.  With the Africanization of North American honey bees It's too much of a PITA to work a hive of bees for me now.


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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #17 on: December 09, 2011, 07:35:36 PM »
baking soda poultice seems to work, just add water, mix thick, pile a little on.

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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #18 on: December 21, 2012, 08:32:26 AM »
I have been a beekeeper for a long time.  Some days I get stung at least a hundred times.  I can't prove it, but I believe bee stings have kept me cold and flu free for a long time, no allergies either.  Before I started beekeeping and getting stung, I would spend a month every winter with a cold, and my allergies were getting worse every year.  I have heard that stings work wonders for arthritis too, an old lady hear has a beekeeper leave a hive for her to sting herself with. 
 

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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #19 on: December 21, 2012, 05:04:05 PM »
I have been a beekeeper for a long time.  Some days I get stung at least a hundred times.  I can't prove it, but I believe bee stings have kept me cold and flu free for a long time, no allergies either.  Before I started beekeeping and getting stung, I would spend a month every winter with a cold, and my allergies were getting worse every year.  I have heard that stings work wonders for arthritis too, an old lady hear has a beekeeper leave a hive for her to sting herself with.
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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #20 on: December 21, 2012, 05:27:33 PM »
ditto on the bleach.
meat tenderizer on the moistened
area.
spit on a clean penny then put
spit side on area.
split aloe vera leaf on area.
split prickly pear cactus pad on area.
(with caution or it'll be worse than the sting)


never used bleach on chiggers.
always used homemade lye soap
in a hot bath.
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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #21 on: December 22, 2012, 01:57:10 AM »
Paint chigger bites with nail polish it will sufficate them.

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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #22 on: December 22, 2012, 03:14:52 PM »
i'll stick with the lye soap bath.
i usually get chiggers where i wouldn't
want any nail polish :-[


i can just see having nail polish in those
areas, and having a heart attack, or something
the like and what the emt's would say. . . .
"no wonder the dumba$$ died! !
he has nail polish all over his$#^&*@
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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #23 on: December 22, 2012, 03:32:55 PM »
ditto on the bleach.
meat tenderizer on the moistened
area.
spit on a clean penny then put
spit side on area.
split aloe vera leaf on area.
split prickly pear cactus pad on area.
(with caution or it'll be worse than the sting)


never used bleach on chiggers.
always used homemade lye soap
in a hot bath.
Glad  to  see   prickly  pear s  good  for  something .  as  I  got  a  good  supply  of  it.

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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #24 on: December 22, 2012, 05:23:21 PM »
if it wasn't such a pain (npi) to
harvest, i'd gather some to eat everyday.
a split pad works good on scrapes and scratches too,
about as good as aloe.
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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #25 on: December 22, 2012, 05:28:54 PM »
if it wasn't such a pain (npi) to
harvest, i'd gather some to eat everyday.
a split pad works good on scrapes and scratches too,
about as good as aloe.
You  eat  it  raw ?

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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #26 on: December 22, 2012, 05:35:18 PM »
sauted like zoo-kini squash.
they sell the pads here in the meskin
grocery stores-nopales (no-pol-lez)
and i've seen an info-mercial where they
sell prickly pear juice as the new cure-all
for everything from stiff joints to e.d. to
cancer.
if you can get some of the fruits, they make
a durn good jelly.
otherwise, i mow 'em down with the bushhog.
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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #27 on: December 22, 2012, 05:35:54 PM »
and some folks do eat 'em raw, yes.
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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #28 on: December 22, 2012, 05:49:23 PM »
Home remedies are great but one of these days it's going to cost you dearly. My dad had been stung by wasps many times and he never had any reaction to it at all....until the last one. What you don't know is that every time you are stung, the venom never leaves your body. When conditions are right, all of the venom can react just like everything that has ever stung you over your life has now hit you all at once. At least that's how they explained it to us after my dads funeral. He was only stung once so you don't have to be swarmed with stings. If we had an Epipen, he would have survived, but we didn't know any better. You can also carry Benedryl with you but you have ONLY 3 minutes to get it in your system. After that, you'll choke to death. And that my friends is not a fun thing to go thru. Be smart, keep an Epipen handy when in the country or just keep it in the glove box. Benedryl is a good back up plan too but you have to have access to it. In the med cabinet at home guarantees you a ride in a hearse. You certainly don't want the family to find out later that your life could have been saved by something so simple. And you need to know, no one is immune.

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Re: Bee Stings
« Reply #29 on: December 22, 2012, 05:56:50 PM »
i have benedryl in my first-aid boxes
in the vehicle and at the residences,
among other j.i.c. items.
also sawyer extractor venom kits,
which i understand will pull out bee
venom( i have never tried it)
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