What to do when bee sting

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During the spring-summer period, the life cycle of insects reaches a peak of productivity. Bees collect nectar, obtaining food for themselves and performing the function of pollination of plants.

The little bee admires the child and is respected among adults. But everything changes when she leaves her sting under the skin of a person.

The harm of a bee sting and the reaction of man

Carrying it out, she instinctively defends herself, dying in the process. The poison that gets under the skin along with the sting is distributed in the blood. Depending on the response of the individual, the consequences are different. Normal is the presence of redness and slight swelling of the damaged area.

Why can they sting?

The poorly informed may mistakenly identify a bee sting and a wasp. First, wasps do not leave a sting and can sting many times. A working bee can bite only once, leaves its “instrument” and dies. Secondly, the nature of the wasps is more aggressive than the bees.

The risk of “buzzing injury” is increased in the following situations:

• Harsh aroma of perfume, alcohol, spices. While relaxing in nature, in the village, visiting beekeeper Avoid excessive self-flavoring.
• Wrong behavior in the vicinity with an interested bee: waving his arms, screaming, trying to kill her. It will be rational to "freeze" by covering your head, or quietly hide in a room. No need to try to escape! This increases the degree of its aggressiveness.
• Being in the apiary near the hives. A buzzing toiler may even accidentally be near if a person sharply falls into the trajectory of her departure from the “house”. Beginner beekeepers should be dressed in long-sex clothing, a mask and high gloves. Be sure to support a specialist in this.
• Pumping honey have bees in the nearby area. During this period, even the kindest of them turn into attacking aggressors. Knowing about the honey fence from a neighbor in the country, it is better not to go out for a few days, to follow the safety rules.
• Barefoot walks in nature, in the village, especially if there is an apiary nearby. Aged or damaged honey earners no longer fly. Completing the life cycle, they crawl on the ground. You can accidentally step foot. Great risk of this situation for children.Strongly increased after inspection of the hives by a specialist beekeeper or pumping honey.

Why remove the sting and how to remove it?

The little worker bee has an individual defense mechanism. It includes a stinging needle and poisonous glands associated with it. At rest, the tip is hidden in her body. When danger it thrusts into the enemy.

If the rival is another insect, then such a “duel will not be fatal for a honey loader. During the interaction with animals and humans, his small notches pierce the sacrifice. The bee escapes, leaving a part of the glands at the opposite end of the "tool", dying at the same time.

The longer the “poison protection tool” is under the skin, the deeper it penetrates, the greater the amount of poison that has entered the bloodstream. Trouble is also increased by the risk of inflammation of the bite site, due to the presence of a foreign body in the skin.

The sting has acquired a well-known appearance and functionality during its evolution.In the "prehistoric" bees in his place was a tube through which they laid eggs.

Medical first aid measures

Most often, adults know how their body reacts to bee sting. With a child, the situation has an unknown outcome. In any case, primary actions must be carried out quickly. The extent of the spread of poisonous substances through the victim’s blood depends on this.

1. Immediately get rid of the sting. It is better to do this with sterile forceps or clean disinfected hands. It is important that no residues remain under the skin. Otherwise, and if dirt entered the wound, inflammation is inevitable.
2. Soak a clean cloth or gauze with ammonia or ethyl alcohol, vinegar, soda solution or potassium permanganate. Attach to the wound. Keep as long as possible, repetition is possible. This minimizes pain, disinfects and slows down the development of edema.
3. Can wash the damaged area body soap (better suited for household 72%) and attach ice.

How to treat and smear: drugs, ointments and gels

With a strong itch of the bitten place on the skin, you can try to remove it. It is necessary to anoint with Phenystyle-gel, psilo-balsam, hydrocortisone ointment. How much and how to smear read the instructions. An important condition: scratching the inflamed area can not be!

• At risk of severe allergies, take an antihistamine. Some allergy sufferers have a syringe and appropriate medication for injection.
• Abundant warm drink and bed rest.
• Control body temperature. For chills without fever, take a sedative or anti-stress medication. When fever drink antipyretic.
• Control pulse and blood pressure.
• If a severe allergic reaction is urgent consult a doctor.
• Artificial respiration and performing an indirect heart massage if necessary.

Bee sting in the head, neck, arm

A bite to the head or neck is much more dangerous than a bite to an arm or leg, for example. So, if an individual normally reacts to bee venom, then in this situation the degree of allergization increases.

Exacerbation of symptoms due to the presence of a large number of blood vessels, including large, lymph nodes, nerve endings and vital points.As a result of stinging in the neck or head, severe weakness, rapid heartbeat and breathing, the development of fever, urticaria, neuritis, convulsions and even angioedema are possible.

Urgently seek specialized medical care.

Bee sting in the eye

A bite in the eyelid, at first glance, does not threaten anything other than its edema. The eye may swell up. The consequence may be the strongest diseases of the eye apparatus, which cause vision loss.

These include inflammation of the eyelids, mucous membranes, purulent inflammation of the eye tissues, cataracts and glaucoma.

If such a dangerous situation arises, you can not hesitate, use popular methods and hope that "will pass by itself."

Treatment and supervision of a professional ophthalmologist.

How to remove swelling and swelling

A bite to other parts of the body is not so dangerous, but the consequences are purely individual. In addition to the harm that entails beekeeping in the facial area, it also causes a number of cosmetic problems.

There is a strong swelling of the lips, nose, cheeks, chin, ear with a corresponding "injury." Trouble forces to postpone meetings and events. Especially painful is the situation with the female sex.

On average, the tumor lasts 2-3 days. Its reduction entails unpleasant itching, as when healing any other wound.

Helps timely use the appropriate cold compress, the alternate use of several local antipyretic (for example, alcohol lotions alternate from soda), ice, antihistamines and anti-inflammatory folk remedies (for example, herbal tea) reduces the degree of swelling and speeds up recovery.

If the bee bit the child

The danger of primary contact with a bee is the unknown reaction of the child’s body and its helplessness. Most often, acute allergies are absent.

Going on vacation or in the nature, it is good to have with you a first-aid kit with a children's antihistamine preparation, antiallergenic and anti-inflammatory ointment, ethyl alcohol or ammonia for compresses.

Also suitable citric acid or aspirin tablet dissolved.Well, if there is a special tool that temporarily protects against insect bites. However, in a situation with a child, they should be used extremely carefully, in small doses, avoiding application to hands and face. Do not forget to read the contraindications.

What to do and how to get rid of the consequences

When a shock occurs, the following actions are taken:

1. Extract stingmake a cold compress.
2. Whenever possible put a harness indicating the time of execution of this action. The operation is performed to prevent the spread of toxic substances through the blood system.
3. Call ambulance
4. Provide bed rest in compliance with the “feet above the head” rule, provide air access.
5. When ingested poison in the mouth and mucous membranes - carefully rinse with water.
6. Damaged area crush with adrenalinedissolved in saline in the ratio of 1 to 10.With the introduction of adrenaline intramuscularly, observe the permissible dosage of 0.1 ml / year, while you can not enter a one-time more than 0.5 ml.

If it is known that the child is allergic, in an open area, you must follow the safety rules. It is necessary to have soft clothes that fit tightly and cover the body as much as possible, wear a hat, do not walk barefoot, use protective equipment carefully, be extremely careful and attentive while playing and eating food. In order to prevent dangerous situations possible special vaccinations.

Treatment of folk remedies at home

Home remedies and medicines of plant origin are excellent assistants in the implementation of primary and subsequent actions aimed at reducing edema and inflammation.

• Cold packs. You can apply citric acid or aspirin. Chopped activated carbon will do. Effective is acetic, alcohol or soda solutions.

  

• Lotions using mint, parsley, plantain, dandelion, onion or garlic. Mint has a cooling and anti-inflammatory properties.Chopped parsley with a plantain leaf, dandelion juice disinfects well and reduces the local heat. These herbs are always nearby in the village or in the lap of nature. Juice of onions or garlic with pulp reduce puffiness, disinfect the bite site. Well heals also leaf or aloe juice.
• Abundant warm anti-inflammatory drink vegetable origin: tea from chamomile, calendula, sage, St. John's wort.

The benefits of bee sting. How does it help?

A substance called bee venom has certain benefits and is represented by the composition of a large number of elements:

• squirrels;
• peptides;
• amines;
• lipids;
• amino acids;
• pheromones;
• carbohydrates;
• fats;
• mineral components.

Some proteins (hyaluronidase and phospholipase), amines (histamine), peptides (melitinn) affect the development of allergies. At the same time, these components along with the rest have a favorable effect on the human body. Each of them has different properties.

What is the beneficial effect for a person?

These include:

• Anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effect.
• Sedative Effect.
• Normalization blood pressure and improve heart function.
• Stabilization hormonal background.
• Enhance overall protective functions organism.

At the same time, the constituent components functionally treat many diseases.

• Thin the blood, reduce clotting, prevent blockage of blood vessels.
• Improve resorption wounds, scars, adhesions.
• Stabilize work the kidneys.
• Reduce symptoms with arthrosis, radiculitis, osteochondrosis.
• Contribute to the good work nervous system.
• They have an effect in treating female and male ailments. genitourinary system.
• Affect the fight against overweight.

The direction of traditional medicine, studying and practicing treatment with the help of "sweet" insects is called "apitherapy."

Resorting to this technique, it is important:

• Hold a medical certificate about the presence of allergies, in principle, about the reaction to one-time and mass bites of bees.
• Contact only experienced professionals in this area and be observed in them.

All processes resulting from the interaction of this industrious insect with a man are purely individual. You need to be informed about the dangers and the state of your health, take precautions and continue to love nature to the fullest.