What to do if you get stung by a bullhorn wasp

The flowers in summer are the favorite of bees. The intoxicating fragrance of flowers accompanied by dancing bees and butterflies are a beautiful landscape wherever they go. Bees, wasps, and oxhorn bees are all a kind of bee. They have a stinger on their stomachs. When they think that people have malicious intentions towards them, they will pierce their poisonous stings into the human body. This means that their lifespans are about to come to an end. The stings of oxhorn bees are poisonous. What should you do if you are stung by a oxhorn bee?

The Buffalo is a large, poisonous bee, named after its antennae that look like horns. It can be more than 3 cm long, with a yellow head, brown-black chest, and fluff. Its abdomen is yellow and black, and it has a cone-shaped abdomen with three poisonous stingers. When frightened by humans and animals, it often attacks in groups. Its poison is enough to be fatal. Let's take a look at what to do if you are stung by a Buffalo!

Clinical symptoms of horn bee stings

1. The sting site is red, swollen, hot and painful. In severe cases, the site may turn black and become bruised, and the sting may spread and even cause tissue necrosis. If you are stung by a bee, the stinger will usually remain.

2. Systemic poisoning reactions may include dizziness, headache, restlessness, etc. Mild cases usually disappear within a few hours. If a swarm of bees stings multiple places, severe poisoning reactions may occur, resulting in difficulty breathing, and even respiratory paralysis and death.

3. Poisoning by the sting of the ox-horned bee can also cause hemolytic acute renal failure and liver damage (laboratory examination should be conducted to check for abnormal liver and kidney function).

What should I do if I get stung by a wasp ?

1. After being stung by a bullhorn wasp, first pull out the poisonous stinger remaining in the body, then suck it out with your mouth, rub it with your hands, and finally wipe it with alcohol to prevent the spread of toxins.

2. If you don’t have any medicine at hand, wash the affected area thoroughly with soapy water, and then apply some vinegar or lemon juice.

3. If shock occurs, after dialing "120" or on the way to the hospital, be sure to keep the injured person's breathing unobstructed, and perform first aid such as artificial respiration and cardiac massage.

First aid for bumblebee stings

1. If you don’t have any medicine or even vinegar at hand, you can apply lemon, orange and other fruits vigorously on the affected area. The stronger the acidity, the better the effect. Weak acidity will also have a certain effect.

2. If there is no fruit and you don’t know the detoxifying herbs, pick some acidic herbs on the spot and apply them.

3. There is a folk remedy that uses human milk to treat bee stings, which is quite effective. In the wild, you can use the pure milk you carry with you to scrub, which is presumably able to absorb and neutralize some of the toxins.

4. Those with systemic symptoms should drink more water after taking the above measures to speed up the excretion of toxins.

5. In case of shock, be sure to keep the airway open and perform first aid such as artificial respiration and cardiac massage while notifying the emergency center or on the way to the hospital.

Precautions for bee stings

1. Applying ammonia to the affected area after being stung by a poisonous bee is basically ineffective, because the histamine in the bee venom cannot be neutralized by ammonia.

2. Buffaloes are poisonous, but honey bees are not. After being stung by a bee, you should also remove the stinger first. The treatment is different from that for bumblebees in that you can apply some ammonia, baking soda or soapy water to the wound.

3. If you have no symptoms twenty minutes after being stung by a bullhorn wasp, you can rest assured.