VIDEO: What helps against bee stings?
Initial measures against bee stings
- After a bee sting, the stinger often stays in the because of its barbs skin stuck, which is why you should first check whether this is the case for you too.
- If so, remove the stinger from the skin as quickly as possible. At the end of the stinger there is a poison bag from which insect venom can still be emptied into the sting canal if the bee has lost its stinger.
- Avoid grasping the back end of the stinger with two fingers when removing it. This would compress the poison bag, which would unnecessarily empty more insecticide into the canal.
- So try to snap the stinger away with your finger.
- You should then immediately start cooling the stab site.
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- The best way to do this is to make ice water by adding a few ice cubes to tap water. Soak a cotton cloth with it and place it on the stitch point. After 20 minutes soak the cloth again and repeat the cooling.
Cooling helps against local reactions caused by bee stings - especially against swelling and redness - if it is carried out consistently for 2-3 hours. Against pains it also helps later.
This will help with swelling - home remedies
- You can also use onion juice, which has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties, to combat the swelling. Cut an onion in half and place it with the cut surface on the sting point.
- You can get the same effect with horseradish juice; use freshly grated radish for this.
- Vinegar water and high percentage alcohol also have a decongestant effect. Soak a cotton cloth with it and leave it on the sting until the liquid has dried.
- A tried and true Home remedies is acetic clay. If this is in powder form, you have to stir it separately. Clay in cream form, which you can apply immediately without much preparation, is more convenient.
- Table sugar also helps against the swelling. To do this, moisten a little sugar with your saliva, apply the sticky mass to the swelling and let it dry up.
Bee stings can lead to violent local reactions, which are best counteracted by cooling the sting site. This has the greatest effect if it is done immediately and over several hours.
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