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« on: April 06, 2012, 09:08:26 PM » |
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What have y'all found to work best for stings and swelling??? Yes I got stung!! Lol
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« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2012, 09:39:02 PM » |
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For stings, use bad words.  In the old days, someone would put chewing tobacco on it. |
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« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2012, 09:44:20 PM » |
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For stings, use bad words. and lots of them too  In the old days, someone would put chewing tobacco on it. |
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« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2012, 10:12:27 PM » |
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Bad words worked pretty good for me this evening. Doesn't seem that I am gonna swell much at all.
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« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2012, 10:25:58 PM » |
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there are lots of home remedies out there! The only one that ever worked for me (when I cared) was meat tenderizer. It breaks down the proteins in the venom. I'll let KathyP chime in with her remedy Scott |
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« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2012, 02:18:35 PM » |
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More stings untill you dont swell anymore
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« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2012, 02:25:10 PM » |
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I'll let KathyP chime in with her remedy Scott I'll go ahead and get started  ----------------- More stings untill you dont swell anymore
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« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2012, 04:12:07 PM » |
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All right, KathyP, I want to know what your remedy is....
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« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2012, 05:32:24 PM » |
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Claritin seems to keep the swelling and itching down, but that varies so much for me it's hard to tell.
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« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2012, 11:26:25 AM » |
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you guys have no guts!!!  extra strength Vagisil. Active Ingredients: Contains: Benzocaine USP (20% - External analgesic), Resorcinol (3% - External analgesic) that's more Benzocaine than you get in most anti-itch meds and at a much cheaper price. for the immediate treatment, i keep liquid Benadryl at hand and take a swig when i get stung. it's child strength, so you don't have to get to wound up about dose when you are in the field. got great advice at Bud3 last year. i have giant swelling when i get stung and don't want to be drinking Benadryl if i'm driving. now i take Loratadine before i go on a call or if i am really tearing into my own hives. it helps a lot if i get stung, doesn't make me loopy, and i can take Benadryl later. |
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« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2012, 11:38:24 AM » |
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I can't wait to see my wife's reaction to:
Honey, can I borrow your vagisil?
I was out of town for my parents 60 anniversary this past weekend and I had asked her to check the hives to see if they needed supers. She was a champ and for the first time she opened the hives and checked them. Everything was great until she got to the last one and knocked it real hard to get the screen top off. 2 bees came right out and stung her on the nose and on her right arm. She called me up to see if it was all right to leave the top off until next week. She did put the top back on, after the stings settled down.
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« Reply #11 on: May 02, 2012, 02:17:54 PM » |
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you guys have no guts!!! extra strength Vagisil. Active Ingredients: Contains: Benzocaine USP (20% - External analgesic), Resorcinol (3% - External analgesic) that's more Benzocaine than you get in most anti-itch meds and at a much cheaper price. for the immediate treatment, i keep liquid Benadryl at hand and take a swig when i get stung. it's child strength, so you don't have to get to wound up about dose when you are in the field. got great advice at Bud3 last year. i have giant swelling when i get stung and don't want to be drinking Benadryl if i'm driving. now i take Loratadine before i go on a call or if i am really tearing into my own hives. it helps a lot if i get stung, doesn't make me loopy, and i can take Benadryl later. Is the dosage 1 or 2 teaspoons every six hours? I keep forgetting and that stuff tastes really bad |
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« Reply #12 on: May 02, 2012, 04:36:56 PM » |
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Keeping your vitamin C levels up is a big help.
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« Reply #13 on: May 03, 2012, 06:00:57 AM » |
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« Reply #14 on: June 30, 2012, 07:15:13 PM » |
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More stings untill you dont swell anymore Worked the best for me. I hardly itch and almost never swell anymore, well except for last week when one nailed me in the forhead just walking across the yard.  Both eyes swelled up and my face was very puffy. Hasn't happened since last year, something to do with getting stung in the face. Must be the soft tissue. Vagisil???  What the heck, how in the world did you ever think to try that? Not sure I can bring myself to ask my wife to borrow that.  Michael, do you grow your own plantain's or can you pruchase the leaces somewhere? I would like to give that a try. |
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« Reply #15 on: June 30, 2012, 09:57:02 PM » |
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More stings untill you dont swell anymore Worked the best for me. I hardly itch and almost never swell anymore, well except for last week when one nailed me in the forhead just walking across the yard. Both eyes swelled up and my face was very puffy. Hasn't happened since last year, something to do with getting stung in the face. Must be the soft tissue. Vagisil??? What the heck, how in the world did you ever think to try that? Not sure I can bring myself to ask my wife to borrow that. Michael, do you grow your own plantain's or can you pruchase the leaces somewhere? I would like to give that a try. Careful what you start. The plantain is a weed that will soon take over your lawn if your not careful. |
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« Reply #16 on: July 01, 2012, 03:38:21 PM » |
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>Michael, do you grow your own plantain's ...
You don't have to grow it. It's already growing in your yard...
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« Reply #17 on: July 30, 2012, 03:09:00 PM » |
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More stings untill you dont swell anymore
This actually worked for me. My first sting swelled my hand up so bad the skin started to "weep" and I thought it'd split. After purposely stinging myself every two to three days for about a month, the last time I got lit up (8 total stings, one in the lip) the swelling went down within 24 hours. In the meantime, lots of benadryl. |
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« Reply #18 on: July 30, 2012, 04:33:59 PM » |
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« Reply #19 on: July 30, 2012, 04:40:40 PM » |
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you guys have no guts!!! extra strength Vagisil. Active Ingredients: Contains: Benzocaine USP (20% - External analgesic), Resorcinol (3% - External analgesic) that's more Benzocaine than you get in most anti-itch meds and at a much cheaper price. LMAO! Hey, I'll try anything once. Forgive my ignorance, but I assume this is a topical? |
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« Reply #20 on: August 13, 2012, 10:07:20 AM » |
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you guys have no guts!!! extra strength Vagisil. Active Ingredients: Contains: Benzocaine USP (20% - External analgesic), Resorcinol (3% - External analgesic) that's more Benzocaine than you get in most anti-itch meds and at a much cheaper price. LMAO! Hey, I'll try anything once. Forgive my ignorance, but I assume this is a topical? You can try it orally, but then you'd be like the Professional Cheerleader suing the birth control jelly company because she was spreading it on her toast in the morning |
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« Reply #21 on: August 13, 2012, 10:39:15 AM » |
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missed some of this i found it after a sting and i was itching so bad i couldn't stand it. went to the store and the anti itch/bite stuff was really expensive. thought "what else itches?" looked around and found the vagisil. also looked at the mens itch stuff. guys, you are paying way to much for your comfort!! |
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"Nay, it [this constitution of government] must perish, if there be not that vital spirit in the people, which alone can nourish, sustain, and direct all its movements. It is in vain, that statesmen shall form plans of government, in which the beauty and harmony of a republic shall be embodied in visible order, shall be built up on solid substructions, and adorned by every useful ornament, if the inhabitants suffer the silent power of time to dilapidate its walls, or crumble its massy supporters into dust; if the assaults from without are never resisted, and the rottenness and mining from within are never guarded against. Who can preserve the rights and liberties of the people, when they shall be abandoned by themselves? Who shall keep watch in the temple, when the watchmen sleep at their posts? Who shall call upon the people to redeem their possessions, and revive the republic, when their own hands have deliberately and corruptly surrendered them to the oppressor, and have built the prisons, or dug the graves of their own friends?
Justice Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," Volume II, Chapter XIII: Mode of Passing Laws, Sections 900-901, pp. 364 (1833)
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« Reply #22 on: August 14, 2012, 10:00:42 AM » |
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missed some of this i found it after a sting and i was itching so bad i couldn't stand it. went to the store and the anti itch/bite stuff was really expensive. thought "what else itches?" looked around and found the vagisil. also looked at the mens itch stuff. guys, you are paying way to much for your comfort!! maybe we just itch more.  |
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« Reply #23 on: August 14, 2012, 10:37:15 AM » |
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Heck, I scratch even when it doesn't itch Scott |
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"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
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« Reply #24 on: August 14, 2012, 11:17:26 AM » |
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Heck, I scratch even when it doesn't itch Scott That's not scratching. Jim |
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« Reply #25 on: October 18, 2012, 07:14:16 PM » |
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BENADRYL CREAM after you are stung. Take one of the pills before you get stung.
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« Reply #26 on: January 19, 2013, 04:37:52 AM » |
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We used to get treated with a blue bag! Probably most people will not even know what one of those is, but the ones we used to get here were were like a piece of pool cue chalk used to add to the washing to get your clothes nice and white. I haven't looked in the supermarket lately to see if they still sell them or not. As I remember the swelling never got too bad when a liberal coating of "blue" was applied, but maybe I don't react too badly to stings and/or the blue was a cunning ploy to pacify my screaming!  ...it's a bit of a novelty to paint various body parts blue! I must research this further to see what they put in those little blue packages that might help with stings. The first time I was stung by a European Wasp, I thought that I was going to die, then I became afraid that I wasn't going to die  , but seriously, that was not all that pleasant and the little darling had a pretty good go at me before I got her out of my jacket. The recommended treatment was a few pain killers and half an onion applied to the affected area. Maybe the onion does something, but it stil hurts  The onion may also help with bee stings. The second wasp sting I got, I was pretty quick to get rid of the wasp from my arm (benefit of experience) and the effects were relatively insignificant. I must say that the Vagisil idea is brilliant, I'm going now to check the medicine cabinet and the cupboard under the bathroom cabinet for supplies. Thanks for the hint. |
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« Reply #27 on: January 22, 2013, 09:31:45 AM » |
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« Reply #28 on: February 07, 2013, 11:21:58 PM » |
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MSA first aid kits had StingFo swabs. Man they worked great. Now you can get sting swabs and sting sticks at most pharmacy's and "Wally world". Calidryl(topical) and Benadryl(internal) are good too.
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