We present a case of corneal bee sting with retained stinger apparatus and associated iritis and discuss the pathologic mechanisms of injury, evaluation, and treatment of these uncommon presentations. Previous article in issue Next article in issue Keywords cornea bee sting foreign body stinger iritis...
We present a case of corneal bee sting with retained stinger apparatus and associated iritis and discuss the pathologic mechanisms of injury, evaluation, and treatment of these uncommon presentations.关键词:cornea bee sting foreign body stinger iritis ...
A bee sting is when a bee injects you with its venom from a stinger on its abdomen. The venom can be quite painful, especially for children, and will almost immediately cause red and swollen skin at the location of the sting. With how the biology of a bee stinger works, sometimes the...
Honeybees have a pointed stinger that is extracted from the abdomen during stinging along with the venom sac. Unlike wasps and hornets, they can only sting once before dying [21]. When a bee stings a person or a mammal in general, the stinger remains embedded in the skin, and the bee ...
Bees and wasps inject venom by stinging unlucky people. Sometimes-especially with bees-the stinger may be left in the skin. The venom is poisonous and may cause direct injury to the human body. This injury is usually confined to the areas close to the sting or stings. ...
An individual worker honeybee can only sting humans once because the stinger is barbed and cannot be retracted from the skin once injected. After the bee stings, its stinger, usually along with the attached venom gland, is avulsed from the bee’s abdomen, causing the death of the bee. The...
of the bees are on the outside of the washing machine there. and they were all sending me the signals that the queen was inside the machine still. so i first started to spend my time looking there, and sure enough, i found her pretty quickly. but i got really lucky with that one....
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. ...
we report a case of bee sting to the eyelid with late migration of the stinger onto the cornea after an assumed successful removal by the patient. to our knowledge, this is the first report to discuss in detail the structure of the bee stinger, which makes it prone to incomplete removal,...
Leaving the stinger in your skin also increases the risk of infection. Is a bumblebee sting worse than a honey bee? Unlike the honey bee, a bumble bee's stinger has no barbs. Because it is a smooth weapon, it can be used multiple times. This means that an angry bumble bee can ...