What works for bee stings?

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Assuming you don't need an epi-pen, of course... what do you use, what works on bee stings?

Stepped on a honey bee on Sunday afternoon and it stung the bottom of my big toe. I had not been stung since I was maybe 9, and that was at the pool and someone tore open a cigarette to put the wet tobacco on it. I can't remember if that works, but I didn't have any cigs handy. :lol: I remembered something about baking soda, so we mixed it with water and I put that on it... it was cool, which felt nice, but I'm not sure it did anything. I took benadryl and then tylenol that night... and again Monday night because it the front half of my foot was pretty swollen. It basically took 2.5 days for the swelling to go down... it is still a tiny bit swollen, but limited to the one toe, and it itches a little. :eek:ops:

Any kind of bee, the better the story... well, the better. ;)
 
Adolf's meat tenderizer and baking soda, make a paste with water and dab it on. Don't know why or how but it works for me.
 
I've always used a credit card and tweezers to get the stinger out. The last time the gf got stung, I was around...never knew if the tobacco thing actually worked...but I told her it did, cuz I wanted to know. So I put a nice wad of Levi Garrett on the sting...and she said it helped with the pain. Coulda been the sugar pill effect though.
 
Benadryl

I stepped on a yellow jacket nest about 3 yrs ago and got stung 13 times. I started feeling a little labored in my breathing a couple hours later so took some benadryl.

I got popped by two yellow jackets last w/e. I was on the edge of the woods with my boy. I saw them coming, and swooped him up quick and ran for the house. I swatted one that landed on him and luckily he didnt' get stung. I wasn't so lucky.
 
Vinegar for bee and Jelly fish stings. Like mentioned above, both chewing tobbacco and meat tenderizer works well too.
 
Peroxide!

I know it sounds crazy but it works. Old trick my dad taught me. It's kept him from going into anaphalyxis more than once. As soon as you're stung, hold the open mouth of the bottle on the sting site until it stops hurting. You have to do it fast, within about 5 minutes of the sting, and make sure you hold it on there until the pain is completely gone. Sometimes this takes 10 or 15 minutes. The peroxide will draw out the poison. I keep a bottle of peroxide in every vehicle. Just wiping it on doesn't work.
 
SolarYellow05 said:
Peroxide!

I know it sounds crazy but it works. Old trick my dad taught me. It's kept him from going into anaphalyxis more than once. As soon as you're stung, hold the open mouth of the bottle on the sting site until it stops hurting. You have to do it fast, within about 5 minutes of the sting, and make sure you hold it on there until the pain is completely gone. Sometimes this takes 10 or 15 minutes. The peroxide will draw out the poison. I keep a bottle of peroxide in every vehicle. Just wiping it on doesn't work.
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That's an interesting one... because I am a big fan of peroxide curing all sorts of ills. :lol: So you just turn the bottle up but hold it against the skin?
 
Good info! I am looking at an EpiPen laying on my desk as I type this. My Nephew is deathly alergic to stings. I will pass this along to my sister.
 
trailhugger said:
That's an interesting one... because I am a big fan of peroxide curing all sorts of ills. :lol: So you just turn the bottle up but hold it against the skin?
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Yep that's exactly what you do. I'm not saying use it in place of an epi-pen but it can be used before the criteria for Epi is met (i.e.: wheezing, hives, tightness in chest, etc) I'm an EMT and I'm very familiar with the administration of an Epi-pen. I actually keep my own even though I'm not allergic to bees, or anything else that I know of, strictly because I've seen so many lives saved with them.
 
Got stung like 30+ times while playing on an old tractor at age 5. The image of my dad cheming up cigarretts to tape all over me kinda scarred me for life...

I like the liquor suggestion.
 
the main ingrediance in the "sting pens" is ammonia so that is what I use when I can get it.Dean got stung on the back of the neck and he chews Copenhagen in the tea bag.I took one for the team to keep the job going and grabbed it out his mouf and held it on the sting for a little while till it eased off.That seemed to work too.
 
Jody Treadway said:
I guess I'll be the first to say it...Piss. I have used urine on nearly every bee sting I have ever had. I suppose it's the amonia thing.
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does asparagus help boost its power?
 
My family swears by tobacco juice. It's not the tobacco but the juice they say makes it feel better. I've always used it & now I use it on both my kids when they get stung.
 
Tequila....drink enough and you'll forget about the bee sting!


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^^^^^ Hell yeah!!!!!

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In this order_ Vinegar, Jim Beam, jim Beam....
 
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