An important consideration when it comes to bees is that they truly don’t want to sting you. This means that you have to somehow provoke a bee to make it sting you. Unfortunately, sometimes this happens accidentally: Many of us have made the mistake of stepping on a bee or gone too c...
Rubenstein H S.Bee-sting diseases: Who is at risk? What is the treatment?.The Lancet. 1982Oude Elberink JN, De Monchy JG, Van Der Heide S, Guyatt GH, Dubois AE. Venom immunotherapy improves health-related quality of life in patients allergic to yellow jacket venom. J. Allergy Clin. ...
Bee sting rash treatment If you have mild allergic symptoms such as arashand itching over your body but no problems with breathing or other vital signs, you may be treated with an antihistamine. You also may be given steroids. In some cases, the doctor will give you an epinephrine (adrenali...
Treatment will depend on the severity of your condition. It is important to note that no specific antivenom is available to counteract the poison injected by the insect. The majority of problems requiring medical treatment result from the allergic reaction to the sting. Many of the complications f...
Tightness in the throat or a feeling that the airways are closing Hives Swelling away from the area of the sting, especially swelling of the face, tongue, or hands Hoarseness or trouble speaking Nausea,abdominal pain, diarrhea, cramps, orvomiting ...
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy Dovepress open access to scientific and medical research Open Access Full Text Article ORIGINAL RESEARCH Bee Sting Injuries in Thailand's High Apicultural Area: Outcome, Risk and Treatment Patterns Sirithanan Charoenwikkai1,2, Premmika Intapun1, Mongkol Lao-...
Honey bees, including killer bees, have barbed stingers that tear off when they try to fly away after stinging, so these bees die after the sting and thus can sting only one time. In this case, the stinger and venom sac typically remain embedded in the skin of the victim. ...
Bee venom has been used since ancient times as a healing treatment for various disorders. Whether humans began keeping honey bees to harvest honey or to use their stings as a therapeutic tool, we do not know. Bee sting is probably one of the first natural cures for certain symptoms. Since...
A call for sting treatment protocol: case report of a 3 year old with massive bee sting resulting in acute kidney injury. Niger J Paediatr. 2016;43(3):231–233. doi:10.4314/njp.v43i3.14 7. Prasad SK, Mehta SK, Satyanarayan B, Panda SK. Multi-organ dysfunction following honeybee bite...
Possibly Ineffective for Multiple sclerosis (MS). Administering live bee stings in gradually increasing doses up to 20 stings given three times weekly does not seem to improve multiples sclerosis. Treatment for 24 weeks does not seem to improvefatigue, disability, or quality of life. ...