What to do if bites the bee

Bees are highly organized insects. Public bees with joint efforts are looking for food, water, housing. They also defend themselves from enemies. Most bees are used in order to protect their sting. However, not all species they have. Most often, people suffer from honey bees bites.

The sting of the bee is a modified eggland, followed by new functions in the process of evolution. It is placed at the end of the abdomen. It consists of a sting of three parts surrounding the central canal. The tip of the sting is connected to two bags filled with poison. When the insect staming, the proboscis sting enforced into the skin, and the poison of the bags falls into the wound.

The sting of the bee is quite difficult to remove from the skin. The bee is trying to fly away and takes away from the sting. Having lost this vital organ, insect after a while dies. The stinging is even more deepening in the skin of the victim, nervous in the wound poison.

How to avoid bite bee

First, when meeting with bee roam, avoid sharp movements. The worst thing you can do is start waving hands. So you will only strengthen the attention of insects to yourself. Try to leave the place of the accumulation of insects as soon as possible, ideally laying the path of retreat through thick vegetation.

Secondly, never kill the bee at close distance from its relatives. From the crushed insect, special substances are made, causing rage at the bee swarm. As a result, the risk of attack and other insects increases.


Thirdly, every spring carefully examine the territory around the residential premises and build buildings to detect bee nests. These nests are subject to regular destruction, as they occur, before the onset of the first frosts. At the same time, do not forget that the work of such a type is accompanied by the danger of being rejected. Therefore, it is appropriate for these purposes to use the services of professionals who specialize in the fight against insects. In the absence of specialists of such a plan on the site of your residence, entail the destruction of bee nests to people who are not inclined to allergic reactions to their bites.

Fourthly, if the bee bites cause you allergic reactions, never go barefoot on the grass. You can step onto the bee.

Fifth, choose the right clothes for trips for the city, to the country, to the village. Bright colors attract the attention of insects. Try to avoid them in your clothes. It is advisable to dress in neutral tones - green, beige, white. When working in the garden or in the garden, wear clothes that closes your arms and legs, without a large amount of folds in which the bee can easily be confused. Also do not forget that leather and suede clothing leads to the rabies of the refilled insects.

Sixth, remember that the bees react very sharply to perfume. Before traveling outside the city, minimize the use of after shaving lotions, shampoos with sharp aroma, perfume, toilet water. This contributes to a significant risk reduction to be wasted.

On-seventh, with allergies to the bites of bees, avoid such classes as the grass of grass, picking flowers. Keep care during country picnics, as bees from afar feel sweet foods and non-alcoholic beverages. Be careful about fruit trees, under which spoiled fruits lie.

And in the eighth, close the windows in the road trip.

The consequences of bee ukus

Often the Bee bite does not threaten the life and health of man. However, in some cases, more precisely, for some victims, it is fraught with quite serious and dangerous consequences. First of all, the bee bite is dangerous for children and people prone to allergic reactions to the bee poison. The degree of danger of bite depends on its localization. The greatest threat is provided by bites, oral cavity, chest.


Bee bites are accompanied by the following symptoms:

  • sharp, burning painful sensations in the place of bite;
  • increasing swelling swelling;
  • flushing site bite
  • white point in the penetration site of the sting.

In some cases, an allergic reaction may develop. The pace of its development is highest in childhood. In severe cases, cough appears, a suffocation arises or difficulty breathing, resembling an asthma attack, nausea, vomiting, itching rash throughout the body.

A strong allergic reaction that threatens human life is called anaphilaxia.

Anaphylaxis are inherent in the following symptoms:

  • breathing difficulty
  • powder of soft tissues of oral cavity, neck,
  • sharp decrease in pressure, threaded pulse,
  • dizziness and loss of consciousness.

Multiple bee bites may have extremely serious consequences even for people who do not suffer allergies. They provide the greatest danger for children and people with heart disease.

What you do not need to do if stung bee

1. It is categorically not recommended to bother or press a terrible bee. As mentioned earlier, the dead or wounded insect highlights substances that cause the aggression of the whole bee roe. With the presence of a large number of insects or their nests, it is fraught with a mass attack of angry bees.

2. You can not break the place of bite or combing it. Manipulations of this kind contribute to the spread of poison into neighboring tissues and increase the risk of infection.

3. Do not put pressure on the busting place in an attempt to remove the sting. This may lead to the same consequences that were considered in the previous paragraph.

4. Another typical error of the bee bite victims is the use of alcohol. Alcohol when taking inside contributes to the expansion of vessels and accelerate the spread of poison.

5. Do not also cool the place of bite of land, clay, water from ponds, rivers and other reservoirs. This can lead to a tetanus infection.

6. In the bee bite, it is prohibited to take sleeping equipment, as they enhance the effect of poison.

What to do if stung bee


1. First of all, you should remove the sting. As mentioned above, in no case, do not even try to squeeze it. It is advisable to use tweezers. For the absence of it, you can try to pull out the sting nails. When stretching sting, try not to squeeze a tiny bag with a poison, which is attached to the rod of sting. If the stood turned out to be deep under the skin, the disinfection of the bite and get a sting with a needle. If you can eliminate the sting not, make a cold compress that will prevent the appearance of swelling on the affected area, before your visit to the doctor.

2. Disinfecting the place of bite plays an important role. In this case, you can use:

  • any alcohol solution, including ethyl alcohol, calendula tincture, etc.;
  • permanganate solution of potassium;
  • solution of ammonic alcohol with water in a 1: 5 ratio;
  • in the absence of all above the listed, the wool can be rinsed simply clean water.

3. Then it is necessary to take care of the elimination of painful sensations:

  • A saline solution can be applied to the bite place (a teaspoon of salt on a glass of water);
  • In place of bite, the powder of acetylsalicylic acid can also be launched, naturally, only in the absence of allergic reactions to this preparation;
  • To neutralize the action of the bee poison, you can use conventional liquid soap;
  • There are painkillers and anti-lobs for outdoor use. Means local analgesics, which include Idrocortisone, Pramoxin, Lidocaine.
  • If there are no necessary medicines in the presence, you can attach a dandelion juice, cucumber cut, onion slices, plantain leaves, rhubarb, crumpled parsley root.

Remember if the swelling did not reach for two days, it should be immediately useful.

With an allergic reaction to bee bite plus to the whole of the time, take any antihistamine drug, minimize physical exertion, ensure yourself with plentiful drink.

With the development of the affected anaphylactic reaction, or if in the past he had allergic attacks with a threat to life, it is necessary to raise an ambulance. Until her arrival to put the victim, cover it, give him 2-3 tablets of any antihistamine drug, strong sweet tea or coffee in the absence of edema pharynx, larynx and language. When stopping the heart and stop breathing, make the injured artificial respiration and a closed heart massage. Under the swelling of the quinque (sudden limited swelling of the skin, subcutaneous tissue and mucous membranes), the intravenous administration of antihistamines should be carried out as soon as possible.

If allergic symptoms are developing with a rapid pace or in case of susceptibility to allergic reactions, accompanied by a threat to life, you can also use an auto injector with adrenaline. We are talking about a one-time syringe for intramuscular administration, equipped with an injection mechanism.

  • Powers have only working bees and uterus.
  • Work bees use a sting for active defense of their nest.
  • The bee uterus is almost never stamping an animal or man, even when they do it hurt. However, she does not regret his opponents and when meeting with them without inflatable, it enjoys sting. The uterus also applies the sting when laying eggs.
  • Every year, a larger number of people die from bee bites than from snake bites.
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