Stings

[Tricky]

What have y'all found to work best for stings and swelling??? Yes I got stung!! Lol

[AllenF]

For stings,   use bad words.   


In the old days, someone would put chewing tobacco on it.

[backyard warrior]

For stings,   use bad words.       and lots of them too


In the old days, someone would put chewing tobacco on it.

[oblib]

Bad words worked pretty good for me this evening. Doesn't seem that I am gonna swell much at all.

[hardwood]

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

[REDBEE]

More stings untill you dont swell anymore

[G3farms]

I'll let KathyP chime in with her remedy

Scott

I'll go ahead and get started
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More stings untill you dont swell anymore

That's the truth

[Rurification]

All right, KathyP, I want to know what your remedy is....

[winginit]

Claritin seems to keep the swelling and itching down, but that varies so much for me it's hard to tell.

[kathyp]

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.

[sawdstmakr]

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.
Jim

[VolunteerK9]

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 

[Robo]

Keeping your vitamin C levels up is a big help.

[Michael Bush]

http://www.bushfarms.com/beesmisc.htm#plantain

[Ozarks Honey Company]

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.

[Sparky]

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.

[Michael Bush]

>Michael, do you grow your own plantain's ...

You don't have to grow it.   It's already growing in your yard...

[Javin]

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.

[yockey5]

you guys have no guts!!!   

extra strength Vagisil. 

Where do I put it? 

[Javin]

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?