First Sting!

[Snow Blind]

Picked up 4 complete hives from a family member, from bottom board to top! These were a gift. Beautiful comb built out. Much honey for the new colonies which should be here in a few weeks. Took a walk over to his current bee yard and then got I'm my truck. Whamo!, Right on the back of the neck. Not complaining, just story telling. And looking forward to the new arrivals.

[bobsim]

  I'm new too, second year and having a great time. I enjoy Tim Durhams' videos and saw this one yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8iMrHkTlyg

  There's something about watching others get stung, I don't feel bad laughing because I know my turn is coming.

[GSF]

One of the things with getting stung is to remove the stinger ASAP. The longer it's in you the more venom is pumped into you. Also you notice as time goes along your reactions (swelling, itching) won't be as much.

[BeeMaster2]

Also bee sure to scrap the stinger off. You do not want to squeeze the venom into you.
Jim

[bwallace23350]

Not a bee sting but I got stung in the mouth by a wasp a few years back. Not worried about a bee sting after that. I am more worried by introducing my nephew to bees and him getting stung and over reacting. He is 5 and says he wants to help.

[Dallasbeek]

I've repeatedly warned my lawn maintenance people to stay away from my hives, but yesterday the owner and his helper saw weeds around the hive and used a string trimmer to knock them down and a blower to move the cut weeds out of the area.  I had no idea there were that many bees in those hives, and every one of them plumb bent out of shape.  The men ran away.  Before I knew what had happened, the helper had been stung once on top of his head and once in an eyebrow and grabbed hold of the stingers and pulled them out, probably  squeezing as he did so.  I offered Benedril, but he shrugged it off.  I'll be interested in hearing how he looks today. 

[flyboy]

I mentioned this before but it bears repeating. I discovered "Bach Rescue Remedy" about a year ago and I now drop it on bee stings for almost instead relief.
Put it on a few times as soon as possible after the sting. The discomfort of the sting will fade fairly quickly, till it is pretty much gone within I am guessing less than an hour.

If not just put another drop on every few minutes.

I got two stings on the ankle and foot when I was washing out the honey extractor last fall and it worked like a charm.

The way to prepare it so the bottle of BRR will last a long time is;

to get a one ounce dropper bottle and put 4 drops of the BRR in it and then,
fill the rest of the dropper bottle with water.

Then using the dropper bottle as a doser bottle,
put one drop of that (from the doser bottle) per one ounce into a drinking bottle.
i.e. one cup of water requires 8 drops in the drinking bottle.

Use the water from the drinking bottle to drip onto the sting.

One drop at a time is enough on the sting.

Works for any kind of trauma, such as pain of any kind. Great for kids and animals. I got my chickens to lay more frequently and one that had not layed in a few months started laying again the next day after I put it in their drinking water.
(Chickens are always traumatizing each other. Hen-pecked is not just an expression LOL)

You can get the RR usually at health food stores or in England in drug stores also.

It's usually 10 to 15 dollars for a bottle of it and if you mix it up as I suggested it will likely last forever.

[Snow Blind]

I mentioned this before but it bears repeating. I discovered "Bach Rescue Remedy" about a year ago and I now drop it on bee stings for almost instead relief.

You can get the RR usually at health food stores or in England in drug stores also.

It's usually 10 to 15 dollars for a bottle of it and if you mix it up as I suggested it will likely last forever.

Thanks for the tip. Was happy the sting did not bother me at all. Just a surprise.