I got stung yesterday
It was a Paper Wasp that got me on the back of my left calf. I was not bothering them just walking by the nest and the next thing I feel like I got shot 
At first I thought it was a horse fly it hurt so bad, but no it was a wasp because he came at me for another sting.
I was on my way to the grocery store so I go in my truck to drive to town. About 20 min later I had broken out in hives on my arms and neck. I went in a CVS and got a water and a pack of Benadryl, I washed 2 down with the water and went to the Grocery store. I was itching like crazy. Once the benadryl kicked in I was OK.
I have never had a reaction to wasp sting like that. I really don't want to kill the wasps because they are good pollinators but I am not going to have aggressive wasps by the house so I sprayed them down. I got stung by a hornet a few years ago and this was twice as bad. My calf feels like I was hit with a hammer it still hurts its red and itchy right now 20hrs later.
At first I thought it was a horse fly it hurt so bad, but no it was a wasp because he came at me for another sting.
I was on my way to the grocery store so I go in my truck to drive to town. About 20 min later I had broken out in hives on my arms and neck. I went in a CVS and got a water and a pack of Benadryl, I washed 2 down with the water and went to the Grocery store. I was itching like crazy. Once the benadryl kicked in I was OK.
I have never had a reaction to wasp sting like that. I really don't want to kill the wasps because they are good pollinators but I am not going to have aggressive wasps by the house so I sprayed them down. I got stung by a hornet a few years ago and this was twice as bad. My calf feels like I was hit with a hammer it still hurts its red and itchy right now 20hrs later.
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with me it was just part of gettin old, never used to bother me bee stings, poison ivy ect, now I swell up like a pig and have to get steroid shots, or I look like the elephant man...... 0 -
There is a species of German wasp introduced into the eastern US, and established now in the mid west, that is much more aggressive than native paper wasps and likely to sting En Masse. Those can be deadly. Not have a previous allergic attack at a sting means only that you have not had a previous allergic attack. Being stung can create the allergy, so that you might react the next time or two more times later. I will tolerate them feeding in the yard, though they do harvest a lot of caterpillars, but not nesting here. 0 -
I bet getting stung in the mouth really sucks.
I never had any breathing problems but the hives were driving me crazy.
The weird thing is I have been stung literally 100's of times buy just about every stinging critter out there. I spent over 1/2 my time in the woods for my whole time in the Army. Ground bees are some of the worst. When I was Ranger Instructor at Camp Merrill we would hit a ground bee nest just about every other day. In Panama we got hit by Killer Bees and a bunch of other types of stinging insects to include scorpions and spiders. Been hit by mosquito's as big as hummingbirds in AK and MN. 50 Cal ants in Honduras and Panama. I even got stung by a huge Hornet, the thing was 2" long easy, it went on an stung 2 other guys in my team.............
I really never had any other reaction except some swelling.
But man this Wasp sting really hurts. Its been almost 24 hrs and it still hurts like hell where I go stung.0 -
Paper wasp get special attention from me. I do not tolerate their nests on my property. 0 -
Anaphylaxis is nothing to fool around with. Get yourself an epi pen for when you venture out of doors in the summer. 0 -
I was carrying a real big, 14 foot long extension ladder. Each section was 14 feet long. Going to lean it up against a poplar tree so I could trim some limbs.
And there in the brush I whacked a paper wasp nest, couldn't see it in the 2 foot high brush, nest the size of a volleyball.
Those damn paper wasps gave me an ass whipping! Got about 7 stings.
I am not allergic to them but damn, those stings hurt.
So I gave 'em about 2 hours, I got a beer can full of gasoline, the wasp hive already had a 4 inch tear in the top, thanks to my ladder, and I poured in the gas, and lit 'em up!
So the wasps won the battle but I won the war.
Now then the next year I spotted a paper wasp hive 9 feet high up behind the propane tank, a place where nobody ever went. I left them alone and nobody ever got stung. Fascinating to see these master engineers and builders, they have an entrance on the lower part of the hive, with a roof built over it so rain won't run inside.
And there must have been a thousand wasps in this hive. And November rolled around, and they all bugged out. Migrated to Mexico, I don't know, but they were gone, and the winter winds cut the hive to shreds, by January the hive was gone.
That Benadryl is a real life saver I have seen it work to good effect on ambulance calls.0 -
The epi pen has been a real life saver for my brother.
He almost died last time the wasp stung him.
Now he carries the epi pen in his truck wherever he goes.0 -
The epi pen is good, of course. Some people are allergic to epinephrine so caveat emptor.
Benadryl is damn good and it can save your life, if you don't have an epi pen.0 -
Ouch, I was pulling leaves and pine straw off the roof of a shed two weeks ago and before I knew it I was covered with some type of ground bee sum beeches stung the hell out of me. Luckily no reaction other than the ouch. 0 -
Worked on a Construction/Carpentry crew up North a couple years before I moved down South.
A guy that worked with us got hit by a couple stings, (of ??) They ended up lifeflighting him out by helicopter. Anaphylactic shock. He was in bad shape.
I was a Wilderness EMT at the time. (Several Search and Rescue teams.) Worked on the guy prior to Paramedics showing up. It was not good. Thought we were going to lose him.0 -
Allergic reactions to a paramedic are like, you get to the scene, and someone pulls the pin on a hand grenade and puts it in your hand.
The main treatment for allergic reactions is epinephrine. It will reverse anaphylactic shock.
But some people are allergic to epinephrine. And, epinephrine will increase the heart rate. After all, the other name for epinephrine is aderenaline.
So my buddy ran a call on a 70 year old granny, got stung by a yellowjacket and was going into allergic shock, called the ER and got MD orders to administer a shot of epinephrine. He did so exactly as Doc said, by the time they got back to the ER grannie's pulse was up to 212. That is way too fast especially for a granny it is a miracle that shot didn't kill her.
So, I got real sick and tired of running allergic reaction shots, I got to where I just tried to load 'em up and haul ass to the ER and let the doc handle it, give 'em high flow oxygen and start an IV en route and let doc handle it. Tough calls for the field medic.0 -
hillbille wrote:with me it was just part of gettin old, never used to bother me bee stings, poison ivy ect, now I swell up like a pig and have to get steroid shots, or I look like the elephant man......
there used to be a liquid benedryl sort of thick about like honey, I would smear it on a sting as soon as I could, it helped as much/more than taking a pill........0 -
allen griggs wrote:Allergic reactions to a paramedic are like, you get to the scene, and someone pulls the pin on a hand grenade and puts it in your hand.
The main treatment for allergic reactions is epinephrine. It will reverse anaphylactic shock.
But some people are allergic to epinephrine. And, epinephrine will increase the heart rate. After all, the other name for epinephrine is aderenaline.
So my buddy ran a call on a 70 year old granny, got stung by a yellowjacket and was going into allergic shock, called the ER and got MD orders to administer a shot of epinephrine. He did so exactly as Doc said, by the time they got back to the ER grannie's pulse was up to 212. That is way too fast especially for a granny it is a miracle that shot didn't kill her.
So, I got real sick and tired of running allergic reaction shots, I got to where I just tried to load 'em up and haul ass to the ER and let the doc handle it, give 'em high flow oxygen and start an IV en route and let doc handle it. Tough calls for the field medic.
When my heart goes into A-Fib, It hits about 220-230 BPM. Good stuff. :shock:
I've learned to take a knee. I ain't walking anywhere, without hitting the ground.
(Mitral Valve issue.) Mitral Valve repair back in 2005. 11 hour surgery, Heart stopped for 8 hours. Good stuff. :roll:0 -
I know anaphylactic shock and I wasnt even close. AS hits hard and fast this was more like a side isse with hives, and not that bad a case of hives. I was just surprised it hurt so much.
BTW the Benadryl knocked right down and I was ok in 25 min or so.
My calf is still sore :oops:0 -
they might sting me by surprise, but when they fly straight at me "mad as a hornet" they don't stand a chance. whack 'em like a tennis ball every time. 0 -
The number one home remedy for a bee sting is tobacco. Chewing tobacco, or the end of a Marlboro, doesn't matter. Get a little tobacco and wet it a little and put it right on the sting. It is like magic. It will make the sting go away in about 30 seconds. No more redness or swelling.
It seems the tobacco is neutralizing the poison. Now, whether this would work to the extent that it would put a stop to an allergic reaction I don't know I am not allergic to stings so can't test it on myself.0 -
hmm, I use a dab of booze for mosquito bites. wonder if that would work on wasp stings too. 0 -
buschmaster wrote:hmm, I use a dab of booze for mosquito bites. wonder if that would work on wasp stings too.
internal or external????????????0
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