How to reduce swelling after being stung by a bumblebee

When spring turns to autumn, many flowers are in bloom. Bees are more active at this time, and if you are not careful, you may be stung by these hardworking little creatures. After being stung by a bee, mild symptoms include swelling and pain, while severe symptoms may also include dizziness, nausea, and vomiting. Timely reduction of swelling and excretion of venom can help improve symptoms. So, how do you reduce the swelling after being stung by a bumblebee? Let’s take a look at the method below.

What to do to reduce swelling after being stung by a bee? Being stung by a bee can be very harmful, and the stung area will become red and swollen. You must take timely measures to avoid more serious symptoms. Here we will teach you how to reduce swelling after being stung by a bee.

1. When stung by a bee, the local skin will feel pain and itching, accompanied by allergic irritation and local inflammatory reactions such as redness, swelling and heat. If a bee stinger gets into your skin, be sure to remove it.

2. Apply ice to the sting to relieve pain and swelling. If the pain is severe, you can take some painkillers.

3. If there is a tendency to spread, there may be an allergic reaction. You can take some anti-allergic drugs, such as diphenhydramine, promethazine and other anti-allergic drugs.

4. Observe closely for about half an hour. If you find that the patient has difficulty breathing, or the breathing sound becomes rough or there is a wheezing sound, send him to the nearest hospital for emergency treatment immediately.

5. If you are stung by a bee, take some alkali powder (edible alkali will do) and wet it and apply it to the sting. This method is simple but very effective.

6. If you are stung by a bee in the wild, if you don't have alkali, you can find a bush called "Jing" (there are many such plants in the wild), crush its leaves (if you don't have tools, you can use stones) and apply them to the stung area.

However, if the situation is too serious, for example, if you are stung severely by a large group of bees, you should go to the hospital. There is a kind of bee in the wild called the bumblebee, which is as long as a thumb and very fat. Not to mention humans, it can also sting cows to death. There is also a kind of wasp that is also very powerful.

Symptoms of bee stings: After a person is stung by a bee, in mild cases, only local redness, swelling, pain, and burning sensation may occur. There may also be blisters, ecchymosis, and local lymph node enlargement, which will disappear on their own within a few hours to 1-2 days. If a person is stung by a swarm of bees in multiple places on his body, it often causes systemic symptoms such as fever, headache, dizziness, nausea, irritability, and fainting. People who are allergic to bee venom may develop urticaria, rhinitis, swelling of the lips and eyelids, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting. In severe cases, it may cause laryngeal edema, asthma, difficulty breathing, coma, and ultimately death from respiratory and circulatory failure.

Bees are divided into honey bees, wasps, hornets and ground bees. Drones are harmless because they do not have venom glands or stingers. It is the female bees (worker bees) that sting people. The female bee has a poison gland and a stinger at the tail. The honey needle is a transformed ovipositor that can inject venom into the human body. The female bee's stinger still has a reverse hook, and after it pierces the human body, part of it remains in the wound. The sting of a wasp does not remain in the wound. In fact, the wasp retracts its stinger after stinging someone, but it can continue to hurt people. However, the sting of a wasp is more serious than that of a bee.

Bee venom mainly contains formic acid, neurotoxins and histamine, which can cause hemolysis and bleeding, have an inhibitory effect on the central nervous system, and can also cause allergic reactions in some victims of stings. After being stung, people mainly experience local severe pain, burning, redness, swelling or blister formation. After being stung by a swarm of bees or a wasp with more venom, the symptoms are more severe and may include dizziness, headache, chills, fever, irritability, convulsions and fainting. A few may experience laryngeal edema, shortness of breath, vomiting, abdominal pain, increased heart rate, decreased blood pressure, shock and coma.