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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2009 16:50:11 GMT
I have heard of using bread soaked in hot milk to draw out infection and also of Prid's ointment (which I think is a variation of Black Salve). However, this bacon remedy was a new one: www.myhomeremedies.com/topic.cgi?topicid=290
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Post by spindrift on Sept 1, 2009 16:51:13 GMT
Yes thanks Happy, I'm fine , so far so good. He wasn't aggressive. I was about to squash it with my upper arm. He had landed on my skin and I hadn't even felt him!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2009 17:28:29 GMT
I have heard of "snake bite kits" with a little suction pump, but I have never seen one. I can't imagine that too many people need one often, unless they live alone in rattlesnake or cobra country (and I would imagine that they are only effective against snakes with weaker venom than those two).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2009 0:12:10 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 2, 2009 1:10:40 GMT
I imagine it's to shave off any hair on the area so the suction thingy would suction better.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2009 2:51:07 GMT
Too weird, a good friend of mine just called me and asked me what did I know about wasp stings? How weird is that?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 2, 2009 4:38:44 GMT
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Post by spindrift on Sept 2, 2009 8:58:25 GMT
Casimira - that's it!!! But mine didn't have the razor.... The children used to play with the pumps. Skin gets pulled up into the pump and the pump becomes fixed and waves around....great amusement * Yes, that's a weird coincidence..... Yesterday a weird coincidence happened to me. Perhaps I'll start a thread about it.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 8, 2009 8:48:17 GMT
Today is the 8 September and the consequences of my wasp sting on 31 Aug have still not disappeared. The area of the sting is still a little red and if I touch it, it itches. I'm just saying that the after-effects of a sting last for some time.
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Post by happytraveller on Sept 8, 2009 9:28:05 GMT
That to me is the reaction I get from moskito bites... they last way past a week ! Hope the itch is going to go away soon spindrift.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 8, 2009 17:44:24 GMT
There seem to be a lot of agressive wasps around at the moment. At the end of summer, wasps get short-tempered as their food supply dwindles. They aren't smart enough to know that winter is coming, they just know they're hungry! The suction device in my snake-bite kits isn't a pump, it's more like a suction cup. And it is no longer recommended that you cut or suck on a snake bite for first aid. spindrift, a beesting or wasp sting can leave traces of the venom under your skin that may cause an allergic/histamine reaction long after the swelling has gone down and the sting is forgotten. I had a hornet (yellow jacket) sting inside my elbow that periodically flared up with itchyness 2 YEARS after I got stung!
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Post by Kimby on Sept 10, 2009 16:01:56 GMT
What a coincidence, I just got stung yesterday by a yellow-jacket (hornet) under the arm. (I pinched him, my fault, but I didn't know he was there.)
Though it hurt right away, and I could see a little swelling and redness around the area, it wasn't till I got home and looked in a mirrow that I realized the swelling extended from my armpit down to my elbow, and was red along the outer edge, where most of the itchyness was. Not painful today, just itchy and swollen.
The sting was perfectly placed so I now have an upper arm to rival Michelle Obama's. Now I just need to find another hornet for the other arm!
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Post by spindrift on Sept 10, 2009 17:01:52 GMT
That's bad luck, Kimby. I suppose you know from the reading my post that I, also, got stung under my arm. I'm lucky that I only had localized redness and not much swelling. I'm sure that hornets have a more pernicious string.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2009 17:08:18 GMT
I think you both should test all of the various stings and report back.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 10, 2009 17:34:10 GMT
We're working on it, K2!
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Post by BigIain on Sept 10, 2009 18:51:26 GMT
I got stung on the lower backlast week. It must have been resting on my shirt back and when I sat down in my car it struck! I was undecided really. I recall them being really sore from when I was a kid (not been stung for maybe 30-odd years?) but it was not so bad, but on the other hand it was quite uncomfortable every now and then. Certainly not as bad as I remember.
I hunted it down in the car and squished it which is unusual for me these days as I hate to kill anything (hence an earlier reference to flies on the windscreen when I was driving last night.)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2009 18:58:09 GMT
Ah great, another member for the experimental group!
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Post by Kimby on Sept 10, 2009 19:19:23 GMT
iain, if it was a honeybee, you don't have to kill them: the act of stinging tears their body apart and they die for the cause.
wasps and hornets, with barbless stingers can sting repeatedly, and often do. so overcome your buddhist inclinations and give them what they deserve. even if you did sit on him.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 10, 2009 19:24:13 GMT
I recall them being really sore from when I was a kid (not been stung for maybe 30-odd years?) but it was not so bad, but on the other hand it was quite uncomfortable every now and then. Certainly not as bad as I remember. Me, too. I have worse reactions to mosquito bites as an adult than bee and hornet stings. A mosquito welt is so itchy that I scratch the top off, and then it becomes an ugly scab that keeps getting knocked off and bleeding for weeks (generally until the weather gets cold enough and I'm wearing slacks and long sleeves again and can't keep pestering them). Wasp-type stings, despite making a bigger red, warm, swollen area, don't really cause much problem for me other than some mild itchyness. And the initial hurt, of course.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2009 7:20:27 GMT
I have become pretty much immune to mosquito bites, and anyway they hardly ever prey on me anymore. (I have read that mosquitoes always go for the person with the highest body temperature, which is why one person in a group can be eaten alive while the others are not bothered.)
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Post by happytraveller on Sept 11, 2009 7:43:57 GMT
Kerouac, that is interesting ! Might be the reason why the beasties love me so much!
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Post by spindrift on Sept 11, 2009 8:56:44 GMT
K - you have just confirmed what I suspected....chemically you are a high metabolizer.... (I might have mentioned this before).....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2009 15:38:45 GMT
There are 3,500 species of mosquitoes,and, still more more being discovered. They will probably be around well after we're done here...
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Post by Kimby on Sept 11, 2009 15:46:53 GMT
Will mosquitos have to adapt to prey on cockroaches, the other likely survivor, when the world ends and all the warm blooded creatures die off?
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Post by Kimby on Sept 11, 2009 15:48:28 GMT
Today the hornet sting swollen area is just deliciously itchy, something I can scratch to my heart's content without worrying about bleeding and open sores! Way better than the mosquito bites on my shins that are still bugging me after 3 weeks!
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 11, 2009 16:21:19 GMT
Kimby, please try putting vinegar on your mosquito bites and spritzing yourself with it when they're attacking. It really works! When you first put the vinegar on an itchy bite, you'll have 10--15 seconds of intensified itch, then it will go away to the extent that you'll forget all about it.
I keep white vinegar in a little travel-size bottle that once contained hairspray. It's good because it shoots a fine mist.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 11, 2009 17:10:17 GMT
Kimby - I'm surprised your hornet sting area isn't painful...mine was quite painful for some time.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 11, 2009 20:55:10 GMT
No pain, it hurt when it stung me but not excessively. Mostly just surprise-shock. Two days later, just itchy and I can hardly see the sting mark. Maybe it didn't deliver full load.
Thanks, bixa for the vinegar tip. Many sting-eze type products contain ammonia. Wonder if it's the same effect.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 12, 2009 0:43:14 GMT
Hm -- didn't know that about the ammonia. Can you hear my wheels turning?
Incidentally, the vinegar smell goes away very quickly.
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Post by bazfaz on Sept 12, 2009 13:04:24 GMT
Talking of vinegar, I had a friend who swore that putting vinegar on his body protected him against sunburn. I have never tried it.
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