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Insect bites and stings
Treatment in the home
If a bee sting
- Remove it with a clean pair of tweezers, or if you have no tweezers ease it out with a fingernail. Try to avoid squeezing the poison sac at the end of the sting.
- Apply some antihistamine cream or dab on a solution of bicarbonate of soda or some other alkaline solution
If a wasp or an ant sting
- Apply antihistamine cream or dab on some vinegar or some citrus juice (e.g. orange juice)
If an insect (mosquito) bite
- Itchiness can be relieved though some antihistamine cream or by dabbing some calamine lotion on the bites.
When to go to the doctor’s
Get to a hospital IMMEDIATELY if after being stung or bitten you experience any of the following symptoms for you may be going into anaphylactic shock;
- Your eyes swell/become puffy
- Your lips swell
- Your tongue swell
- Your throat swells or begins to feels thick
- You feel lightheaded or faint
- You are asthmatic and your asthma suddenly flares up or you feel short of breath
See your doctor if;
- The sting cannot be removed
- There is any infection around the sting site
- There is a fever later on
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