Home Remedy for Bee Sting

Bee sting simply refers to manifestation or reaction of pain from bee attack. The Bee sting may caused by bee, wasp, sawfly, or yellowjacket. It has no major threat for most people.

The most aggressive stinging insects are wasps like bald-faced hornets but not all hornets’ attacks people thru stings. The European hornet is gentle and has no recorded attack to human. Insects’ stings only if they are threatened, they are aggressively defending their nests.

Some people, however, who are especially sensitive to some chemical reaction from bee stings, may develop a life-threatening allergic reaction.

Causes

Sting may come from a wasp, bumblebee, hornets etc. Degree of pain that can be felt depends on the amount of venom injected on the skin from the bee stinger.

The stinger’s injects apitoxin into the victim; it is accompanied by the release of alarm pheromones. Attack can be accelerated due to release of alarm pheromones if the bee is fatally injured. If the release of the pheromones is near a hive or swarm it may attract other bees to the location, and may result to swarm attack. Alarm pheromones do not wash off quickly, and if their target enters water, bees will resume their attack as soon as the target leaves the water.

Symptoms

A stinger can be visible after the stinging attack; it is characterized by a needle like structure that punctured deep in the skin, which responsible for the pain felt by the stung person.

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