How to reduce swelling after being stung by a wasp

After being stung by a hornet, you will find that your skin instantly becomes red and swollen, and it is painful and itchy. It is very painful and you need to go to the hospital for immediate examination. In fact, if the hornet sting is serious, it will be life-threatening and should never be ignored. Generally, some detoxification drugs are needed to prevent the toxins from spreading to the various organs and tissues in the body. Local tissues should also be treated to reduce swelling.

The wasp's abdominal stinger penetrates the skin and injects venom. After poisoning, local tissue necrosis will occur, and people with allergic constitution may suffer from acute renal and liver failure. If you are stung by a hornet, check the sting immediately, squeeze out the venom, apply acid-base water to neutralize the venom, and you can also apply Psoriasis Cream, Nantong Snake Medicine, Seven-Leaf Flower, Lobelia, and Viola Yeding crushed for external application. For serious injuries, 0.1% epinephrine 0.5ml can be injected subcutaneously or anti-allergic drugs such as astemizole can be used; for those with severe local pain, 0.1% lidocaine or 0.5%~1% procaine can be used for local blockade. In severe cases, a tourniquet should be placed near the wound.

For mild stings, the wasp's poison is alkaline, so rinse with an acidic solution, such as vinegar. In addition, there is a folk remedy of using urine to rinse the wounds of wasp stings. Because human urine is weakly acidic under normal circumstances, this remedy makes sense. Note that the venom of ordinary bees is acidic and the treatment method is just the opposite.

For moderate stings, you can immediately squeeze the stung area with your hands to squeeze out the venom, which can greatly reduce redness, swelling and allergic reactions. You can also immediately wash the stung area with a weak acidic liquid to neutralize the alkalinity of the bee venom, reduce its toxicity, and also have a pain-relieving effect. If you have onions, wash them, slice them and apply them on the wound.

In addition, you can also use breast milk, wind oil, cooling oil, etc. to remove bee venom. Remember not to apply mercurochrome or iodine, as that will not only fail to treat the disease, but will aggravate the swelling. If you find that the stung person has difficulty breathing, his breathing becomes heavier, or he wheezes, he should be sent to the nearest hospital for emergency treatment immediately. Tie a tourniquet around the proximal end of the wound and loosen it every 15 minutes. The ligation time should not exceed 2 hours. Go to the hospital as soon as possible.

Biological control: The natural enemy of wasps, the yellowtail moth, lays eggs in wasp nests, which has a destructive effect on the wasp nests. Foul blight causes wasps to become infected and die. The gray magpie eats wasp larvae and adults.