Thin-waisted striped danger: how to relieve swelling after a wasp bite

In summer, wasps and bees sting people most often. The swelling at the site of the bite, as a rule, lasts from several days to a week. If a person is healthy enough to treat the wound with an antiseptic, but those who cannot tolerate pain, children and persons with high sensitivity should take measures to relieve swelling. This is what the article will be about.

Common wasp (Latin Vespula vulgaris),

First aid

Wasps remove the sting from the soft tissue, leaving a small hole in the skin. The bitten area turns red and bleeds slightly. If the sting is stuck, gently pry it off with nails or tweezers and pull it out. You cannot press your fingers on the damaged tissue, otherwise the swelling will increase.

The wound is washed with antibacterial soap, then treated with any alcohol-containing agent:

• peroxide;
• vodka;
• tincture of calendula;
• ammonia or ordinary alcohol;
• iodine.

An antiseptic such as Chlorhexidine or Miramistin will do. The bite must be disinfected, because it is not known how many bacteria were on the sting of the insect. Damaged skin should not be scratched or scratched, poked with a knife or needle to prevent infection or germs from entering the bloodstream. After treatment with alcohol, the wound is covered with a gauze bandage or a patch is glued on top.

Tip: If you don't have alcohol or an antiseptic on hand, you need to find a package of aspirin in your medicine cabinet. Crush one or more tablets, sprinkle the resulting powder over the wound. The preparation contains salicylic acid, which has antimicrobial properties.

The patient is placed on a sofa or in bed, given sweet tea or warm water with sugar. The person has experienced stress, so it is important to calm them down and help them relax. The less the patient is worried, the faster the swelling will go away.

Pieces of ice wrapped in a clean towel or gauze soaked in cold water are applied to the damaged area. Low temperatures slow down blood circulation and the spread of poison. Less soft tissue swells, pain goes away, and itching becomes less severe.

The dressing is changed when the fabric starts to heat up. Applying ice for 2–2.5 hours, then holding it is useless.

People who have been stung by an insect on the cheek or tongue are hospitalized in the hospital, because the bite can provoke Quincke's edema. Before the arrival of doctors, rinse the mouth with cold water or dissolve a piece of ice.

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Medication

The manifestation of an allergy to a bee sting, a wasp has an acute and rapid symptomatology. In this situation, it is required to carry out manipulations quickly, in order to slow down the divergence of toxic substances as much as possible, and neutralize their effects on the body.

In the case of a normal reaction to an insect bite, agents based on natural ingredients, essential oils, and plant extracts are used.

1. Menovazin - has the form of an ointment, solution, it contains 2 substances that relieve pain. The patient becomes easier immediately after applying the medicine. Treatment with the drug is carried out up to 4 times a day.
2. Calendula - in ointment, solution eliminates inflammation, swelling, itching, pain.
3. Asterisk - thanks to the remedy, it will eliminate pain, stop the pathological course, accelerate wound healing. Spreads the remedy for redness, pain, itching, inflammation.
4. Boro-plus is an antiseptic cream with a pleasant smell.Smear with the drug up to 5 times a day.

Borough Plus

If the symptoms do not pass, the skin does not recover in 2 days, then drugs are used that reduce the activity of histamines.

Antihistamines can reduce histamine levels, stop inflammation, and eliminate allergies. Application of the medicine in a small layer 2 times a day. To enhance the effectiveness, use pills, syrup, drops.

Effective drugs include:

• Claritin;
• Suprastin;
• Fenistil-gel;
• Psylo balm.

It is advisable to take adsorbent drugs.

1. Smecta.
2. Activated carbon.
3. Enterosgel.

Due to these funds, toxic substances are bound and they are quickly eliminated from the blood system, cleansing the body. When a severe allergy develops and in the absence of the proper effect from antihistamines, hormonal medications are prescribed.

Smecta

The active ingredients are hormones, which are included in the group of glucocorticosteroids. They work in the same way as antihistamines, but 4 times faster.

1. Reduce the effectiveness of histamine.
2. Increase pressure.
3. Reduce vascular permeability.
4. Exclude external signs of an allergic course.

It is forbidden to process wasp and bee stings without a doctor's appointment.

Oral tablets - Prednisolone, Dexamethasone. The dosage is selected based on the age of the victim. An adult takes up to 3 pills a day. The therapeutic course is predetermined by the complexity of the symptoms.

As an ointment for bites, they are prescribed:

• Advantan;
• Hydrocortisone;
• Elokom;
• Sinaflan.

In severe allergy situations, the victim is prescribed:

• Cordiamine - helps to normalize breathing;
• Diphenhydramine - restores the natural functionality of the heart and eliminates pain;
• Adrenaline - inhibits the formation of allergies.

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The victim needs to be hospitalized urgently and provide the necessary assistance in a hospital setting.

What to drink

For severe edema, which is accompanied by severe itching and redness, it is recommended to take antihistamines:

• Cetrin;
• Loratadine;
• Eden;
• Diazolin;
• Diphenihydramine;
• Suprastin;
• Tavegil.

The wound 3-4 hours after the bite is treated with antihistamine ointment or gel, like Fenistil, Psilo-balm or Bepanten. "Panthenol" or "Rescuer" will do. Hormonal agents like "Diprosalik" or "Ftorocort" help, but they have more contraindications and side effects.

It is not advised to get carried away with antihistamine pills. Some drugs cannot be taken for stomach ulcers, others for epilepsy, so before using you need to spend 5 minutes studying the instructions.

In people stung by a wasp, not only edema appears, but also other symptoms:

• headache;
• temperature increase;
• nausea;
• weakness.

This means that the insect got into a large blood vessel, and the toxins spread throughout the body. A person should drink mineral or filtered water so that the body is quickly cleansed of poison. Sorbents such as activated carbon, "Regidron" or "Enterosgel", as well as "Smecta" are useful.

A gauze swab dipped in cool water with salt or sugar is applied to the edema. The tool draws out toxins, preventing them from being absorbed into the bloodstream.

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Doctor's advice

To relieve swelling from a wasp bite, you must follow these recommendations:

• try to prevent or stop the spread of insect poison through the body of the affected person;
• reduce the degree of negative manifestations of an allergic reaction;
• take measures to reduce the severity of the inflammatory process.

It is necessary to remove edema after contact with a wasp taking into account the presence or absence of an allergic reaction, its severity.It is necessary to find out whether the victim's body has coped with the toxic poison. The age of a person is of no small importance, the presence of aggravating factors - a tendency to allergies, weakened immunity. Pregnant women can tolerate the bite harder..

What to do if a wasp stung in nature

An insect attacked while on holiday in the countryside, and there are no antihistamines and peroxide in the first-aid kit? The wound and the skin around it are washed with water from a bottle. It is forbidden to dip a limb into a river or lake.

The affected area is watered with vodka, a fresh onion or plantain leaf is applied, which is washed and kneaded with fingers until juice appears. It is undesirable to take alcohol inside, so that the state of health does not worsen.

The victim is advised to move less, drink more water, compote, tea or fruit drink.

Prophylaxis

No one is immune from wasp bites and it is very difficult to completely avoid an insect attack. However, you can minimize this risk, for this it is recommended to adhere to some precautions:

• put mosquito nets on the windows;
• during outdoor recreation, carefully check food and drinks before drinking, especially sweet ones;
• use repellents or special candles;
• do not walk barefoot on flowering grass;
• on hot days in nature, give preference to clothes in light, muted colors: bright, colorful things attract the attention of wasps;
• bypass places where hives and garbage cans are located;
• do not overdo it with perfume;
• do not make sudden movements near the wasps;
• carefully pick up fruits that have fallen from the tree;
• do not try to kill, hit or drive away insects, because this only provokes their attack.

In a special risk group are people allergic to wasp poison, small children, as well as children of allergic parents. Elderly people should be especially careful when meeting wasps. Their reaction to a sting may be unexpected.

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Lotions for edema

Gauze dipped in parsley juice is applied to the swollen soft tissues. To prepare the medicine, the greens are washed under the tap, kneaded with a tablespoon. The gruel is put into cheesecloth and the juice is squeezed out. A cotton swab or clean cloth is moistened in a greenish liquid, the wound is covered with a tampon and sealed with a plaster. Keep for 2-4 hours, then prepare a fresh product.

Tip: Parsley cannot be kneaded in a wooden mortar, because the dishes instantly absorb the juice.

The swelling will quickly pass if you apply a compress from an alcohol tincture of calendula to the reddened area. The product is not diluted with anything. The first lotion is kept for 20-40 minutes, then 30 g of soda is mixed with 50-60 ml of water and the resulting gruel is rubbed into the skin.

Itching will disappear if you apply mint to the wound. Fresh leaves are crumpled in the hands or beaten with a spoon so that the juice comes out, then they are fixed on the swollen area with bandages. The mint dressing is changed every 2-3 hours.

Medicinal plants

Severe itching and swelling will be removed by herbs:

• sagebrush;
• dandelion;
• thyme;
• tansy leaves;
• Kalanchoe.

Only fresh stems and leaves, as well as flowers, work. Grind or crush the plant, you can finely chop it. Wrap the gruel in several layers of gauze, attach to the disinfected wound.

Important: A bleeding bite is treated with alcohol-containing products. The sap and leaves of plants are used when a crust appears on the hole left after the sting.

Decoctions or alcohol lotions are prepared from herbs. It is advisable to cool the infusion, and then moisten cotton wool, clean cloth or gauze in it and put on the swollen part of the body.

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Was it really bitten by a wasp? Examining the bite site

A person who has received an insect bite does not always manage to carefully examine the attacking individual. Many people confuse a wasp with a bee, and yet these two insects are completely different in behavior and the intensity of the harm done. The bee always leaves a sting in the wound, so it can only sting once, while the wasp keeps the sting with it and can inflict several bites at the same time, which is much more pronounced by swelling and the severity of an allergic reaction.

After an insect bite, it is imperative to inspect the site of damage for the presence of a sting, and if it remains there, then carefully remove it with tweezers, then rinse the wound with soapy water or treat with an antiseptic so as not to infect. After making sure that there is no sting and you are sure that it was the wasp who bit it, you should begin to provide emergency assistance to the victim.

Help from the fridge

Sour vegetables or berries neutralize wasp venom, reducing swelling. A lemon is suitable, which is cut into slices and applied to reddened skin.

Juice is squeezed out of citrus, in which a gauze bandage is moistened. Replace the product with table vinegar or apple cider vinegar diluted with water. Lemon compresses soothe itching. Vinegar lotions help with burning and fever.

Apples and Garlic

How to replace lemon? Sour green apples. The fruit is cut in half and applied to the swollen area, massaging it and rubbing the juice into the skin with light circular movements. Apples are also finely chopped or minced. Fruit gruel is spread on a thin layer of gauze. Vinegar or lemon juice is sometimes added to the mass. The lotion is regularly updated. Apples quickly soothe itching, and the swelling subsides after 2-3 days.

Garlic is an antibacterial product that contains phytoncides. Substances remove redness, promote rapid restoration of soft tissues. Crush or finely chop a few peeled cloves, put the resulting gruel on the wound and the skin around it. Cover with gauze and wait 2-3 hours. At first, there is an easy burning sensation, then the uncomfortable sensations disappear. Instead of garlic, use onion gruel with salt or vinegar.

Tomatoes and potatoes

The pulp of ripe tomatoes is applied to an arm or leg that is swollen after a wasp bite. The fruits are kneaded with a fork until smooth, spread on a napkin so that the product does not spread throughout the body. Edema is also removed with green tomatoes. You do not need to grind underripe vegetables. The fruits are cut, the affected area is covered with a half and the workpiece is wrapped with a bandage.

Potatoes can help soothe irritation and inflammation. Grate the peeled tubers on a fine grater to get a homogeneous paste. Put the mass in a gauze bag. Treat the wound with potato juice. Keep the lotion for 40-60 minutes.

Edema, which is more than 2-3 days, is recommended to be lubricated with unrefined sunflower or sea buckthorn oil. The burning sensation disappears 30 minutes after applying the product, and the swelling disappears after a day.

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Who is at risk?

The most dangerous and strongly pronounced is the swelling and redness of a wasp bite in the mucous membranes (inner surface of the lips, pharynx), eyelids, nose, neck. Rapidly developing swelling in these areas can provoke an attack of suffocation, anaphylactic shock, or a deadly allergic reaction.

Regardless of the individual characteristics, age and tolerance of such bites, the victim must immediately call an ambulance and begin to provide urgent measures on the spot if:

• the wasp bit the eyeball;
• soft or hard palate;
• language;
• tissues of the pharynx (for example, if a wasp accidentally swallows with a sweet drink).

These places of the human body are difficult to access and are equipped with a large number of nerve endings and blood vessels, so exposure to wasp poison can cause a strong negative reaction.

Unusual ways

A fresh bite is advised to lubricate with sulfur from the ear, if there are no other means at hand. It is impossible for the agent to fall into an open wound. The earwax secreted by the ear canals contains a lot of dirt and germs. If bacteria enter the bloodstream, there is a high chance of infection.

The place where the insect stung is recommended to be cauterized with nettles. Put a plastic bag or glove on your hand, pick a fresh sprig of grass, hit the reddened skin several times. At first, itching appears, but gradually it disappears along with the swelling. A small blister remains, like after a mosquito bite.

Important: The nettle method is contraindicated for people who are allergic to the plant.

It is recommended to apply a fresh beet leaf to the swollen part of the body, as well as lubricate the reddened skin with a thin layer of honey. The Validola tablet soaked in water helps.

With severe edema, you need to drink an antihistamine. Apply a mixture to the bite site, which includes:

• activated carbon tablet;
• baking soda;
• aspirin;
• tablet "Validola".

Prepare a thick gruel from the crushed components, adding a little liquid.

The second version of the healing paste consists of white or blue clay and alcohol diluted with water. Edema is also lubricated with toothpaste, "Levomekol" or "Boro-plus".

Redness and swelling after a wasp sting disappears in 3-5 days. The main thing is to use folk or pharmacy remedies, apply cold and not steam the swollen part of the body. If an insect gets into the eye, neck or tongue, or dizziness with nausea appears, an urgent need to see a doctor.

What not to do

After stinging a wasp, you cannot take alcohol and milk, this will aggravate the situation. You do not need to cut the wound to get the sting out of it or extract the poison, this will only intensify the skin reaction and can provoke inflammation and blood poisoning.

Rubbing the bite site and squeezing out the poison from the wound is also not recommended, such a step is likely to lead to the spread of the toxin under the skin and greater injury to tissues and blood vessels.

Do not rinse the wound with water from stagnant bodies of water, use earth, moss or stones as a cooling agent - there is a risk of introducing dangerous infections, including tetanus.

If the treatment does not help and after all the measures taken, the edema continues to increase, not only the place of the bite is swollen, but also any other part of the body (this happens with allergies), the state of health worsens, and also, if the symptoms do not go away on day 4, you need to consult a doctor ...