What is a good home remedy for bee stings-itching and pain?
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tobacco from a cigarette and spit together to make a little ball on top of the sting site will "draw the poison out". it really does work. if you still have the stinger in you NEVER use any type of "squeezing method" to remove the stinger, use a credit card type object to "scrape" the stinger out. Both of these methods word I PROMISE i don't know how many times i have had to do them to myself and many others
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Yes there is.
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rub wet baking soda on it
Sometimes it helps if you rub the sting with fresh parsley.
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Honey (moi), $5.50/1-pound jar of Jon Quinn's honey. This was my own home remedy, and it seemed like an obvious one, since honey is a folkloric favorite for anything and everything. I thought maybe I'd stumble upon a great curative miracle—that a bee's sting can be healed by its honey. No luck, but the cool and soothing honey did alleviate the symptoms (from 9 to 5) for 30 minutes, which was at least as good as several other remedies.
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Paste of vinegar/baking soda/meat tenderizer (diy/doc), $2.59/16.9 ounces vinegar, $2.79/2.25 ounces meat tenderizer. Due to the acid/base interaction of the vinegar and baking soda, the concoction fizzed like an Alka Seltzer on my arm. The symptoms raged on at Level 9 for the first 20 minutes but then began to subside. An hour later, the symptoms had gone down to Level 2, and they stayed that way for several hours. Chalk one up for the meat tenderizer, which contains papain, an enzyme found in papaya that supposedly breaks down the toxins in bee (and other) venom. (Though the meat tenderizer and vinegar made me smell like an antipasto sampler.)
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Toothpaste (diy/web), $3.99/tube Crest Advanced Cleaning. Like the Caladryl and meat tenderizer potion, the toothpaste tingled. This not only made it seem medicated, it felt like I was actually scratching the itch, which was both psychologically and physically satisfying. One doctor I spoke to suggested that the glycerin found in most toothpastes dries out the venom concentrated under the sting area. But several others I asked said the tingle was a result of the alkaline toothpaste neutralizing the acid in the bee's venom. Either way, the toothpaste knocked Level 10 symptoms down to 0 in 15 minutes and held them below 7 for more than five hours, one of the only two remedies I tried that did so. The other was the winner of the experiment …
Ice (med/diy/doc/rex/bee/web/mom), universally cheap. Almost every source I checked mentioned ice as a top remedy. And they were all right. Ice works. A 20-minute application knocked out the symptoms almost immediately and kept them subdued for half the day. Ice reduces swelling by constricting vessels and slowing down the flow of venom-tainted blood. By numb force, it also cancels out pain and itching. Its flaw, of course, is its temperature; it can become uncomfortable without some kind of buffer wrapped around it (which, you know, is simple to do). Then again, ice is very easy to find and it's also super cheap. You can even make your own with very little equipment.
an ice cube.
Bi carbonate of soda applied to the irratation
Try toothpaste. For the itching use an oatmeal paste. Hope this helps
Water and baking soda will do the trick.
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Get some tobacco out of a cigarette, spit on it, make a ball, & press it over the stung area. It draws out the poison. For real.
Benedryl cream is the best, I think. It anesthetizes the sting to stops the burn and itching.
I also heard that putting moistened tobacco, covered with a band aid helps, but I've never tried this myself.
vinegar is the best thing for stings as it draws the sting back out and also soothes the swelling
Depends on how long ago you were stung.
First thing to do is remove the stinger as soon as possible.
Applying any kind of paste to the wound has little effect, as the poison is injected below the skin, so topically applied remedies don't really work. Ice is pretty much your best bet.
It will sting for a few hours, and itch for a few days. Try not to scratch, as this will only increase the swelling. If the itching continues for mroe than a week, see a doctor.
my 4 year old grandson got stung by a wasp behind his ear and I wet a little meat tenderizer and rubbed on it---He never complained about it hurting after that---
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Vinegar is the fastest or quickest relief from any insect bite. Just dab it on and take out the stinger if found.
Benedryl is the best thing to take when you are stung by a bee. Ice it also.
Once you get a bee sting immediatly cover it with sugar then with a bag of ice.
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