More Insect Bites

Monday, July 14, 2008 4:01 PM
Name: Martha
Country_of_Remedy: U.S.A
Ingredients: Australian Tea Tree Oil 100% OR Icthammol Ointment 20%
Instructions: We had our first experience with a brown recluse spider bite when my son was younger. 9 times out of 10, you will not know you\'ve been bitten by one until several days later. You may THINK you\'ve been bitten by an ant at first or stung. As it begins to swell...you will notice the round tip of puss on the head of it. And it will get angrier as time passes. Brown Recluse Spider bites cause \"tissue death\" under the skin. It will eat muscle and flesh and the sooner you start treatment...the better. I was recently bitten by one on my abdomen. I didn\'t even realize it was there until a few days later when it had begun to itch somewhat, then I took notice to it when I\'d stepped out of the shower to dry off. We recognized it\'s pattern right off, having seen it before THREE times with my son. We went to the store and bought some Australian Tea Tree Oil AND Ichthammol Ointment-20%. You can ask for this ointment from your pharmacist. They keep it behind the counter in most drug stores. Both of these work very well. First...you want to clean the wound or bite with Peroxide. Tear a cotton ball in half and put the tea tree oil on it. Place the cotton ball over the bite and place a band-aid over it to keep it in place. You can do this before bed or when you get up. The next day....you will notice the pus head on the top. The tea tree oil will start drawing the infection out. It looks nasty TRUST ME!! You will have to squeeze as much pus out of the head of it as you can without squeezing too hard. Then repeat the tea tree oil steps until you can see that the wound is looking better. It will take about three days of doing this and you will see the swelling start coming down. Icthammol Ointment 20% works well also. It smells like tar and it IS black and will stain your clothing. So keep a light covering over it...a bandaid will work. Put a good coat of this ointment on the wound...a good dab of it will do. Rub it on with gloved fingers or a Q-tip. Just make sure you keep the wound clean. Wash your hands before you try to clean the wound. The last thing you want is a secondary infection or staph. The first time this happened to us, our son had to have surgery on his arm, because at that time, we did not know any treatment options and THEN we didn\'t know it was a spider bite. If you have allergic reactions to insect bites...especially brown recluse spider bites.... then please do not take any chances..go see your doctor. Everyone KNOWS what their limits are. If you begin to run fever after treatment...go see your doctor!! We learned about this treatment through others who have been bitten by this spider and we\'ve never had to go to the hospital with it since. But what may work for some..may not work for others who may be MORE allergic. I also took Benedryl for good measure and took Ibuprofen also for inflammation. I hope this will help ANYONE who has to go through this experience. It sure helped OUR FAMILY that is around wood all the time. GOOD LUCK!!

Recently we received a spider bite (unknown spider) while working outside. and not have allergic reactions to every insect bite. Symptoms range (every time) from red, swelling, sometimes itching and tender) at the bite site; and the most severe reaction is closing of the throat (like having swallowed a hard candy that is stuck). The air passages are clear but the throat closing is severe and lasts for 1-2 hours. Benedril helps but does not cure it.

Home remedies?

Cynthia Haffey
Development Director
SPCA, Inc.
5850 Brannen Road South
Lakeland, Florida 33813
Cynthia@LoveMySPCA.com
863.646.7722 x104
863.838.2262 cell

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:54:09 -0700
Name: L. Ellis
Country_of_Remedy: U.S
Ingredients: Vitamin B1 250mg to 500mg
Use common sense based on your body size and weight Instructions: Take the vitamin thirty minutes to an hour before going outside. The chiggers, ticks, mosquitoes, and gnats don\'t like you when you take this vitamin. You may have heard of people using brewers yeast to ward off pests. I researched the active ingredient in brewer\'s yeast and it is B1. The yeast tastes so nasty, I opted for the B1.

We were at a family reunion and I was offering the vitamins to family members. They thought I was nuts and declined. My family took the B1 and around dusk, we were all standing outside talking. The family was being eaten alive by the biting gnats. My family didn't get one bite. The pests stayed far away. I can't claim that it will work on pesky relatives. Ha.

15-Dec-07 at 05:59 AM:

COUNTRY_OF_REMEDY: Panama

INGREDIENTS: While visiting El Valle de Anton meet Franklin Gruber Chiari, a local herbalist. He sold me a bottle of Gruber�s Jungle Oil,an insect repellent that also neutralizes pain, itch and insect biteALLERGIES. I had just come down from the India Dormia Mountain and hadbeen vary badly bitten by sandflies. As I am allergic I really appreciated eliminating the reaction with his oil, I highly recommend it. I understand it is only sold locally but any acquaintance coming this way may bring you back a few 4 ounce bottles. It only costs 10 dollars.

INSTRUCTIONS: On severe insect bite allergies applying every half hour
will eliminate the reaction in a few hours.

06-Aug-06 at 07:45 AM:
SUBJECT: Home Remedy
NAME: staletail
COUNTRY_OF_REMEDY: US
INGREDIENTS: "Oxy-Clean" granules and water
INSTRUCTIONS: Make a chunky paste with "Oxy-Clean" granules and water, apply to ant bites as soon as possible. Reduces itch, scar and pus formation.

05-Aug-06 at 04:24 PM:
NAME: Carrie
COUNTRY_OF_REMEDY: U.S.A.

INGREDIENTS: Tea Tree Oil
INSTRUCTIONS: Dab tea tree oil on bite with a q-tip. It cures the itch and smells pretty good, too.

Insect stings, wasps, hornets, fire ants....
BENADRYL capsule.... crack open benadryl capsule and pour its powder contents on the bite and using a bare few drops of water make paste and spread on the area.
will stop the pain and actually really shorten the healing process...

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As a child if we were at home we used a baking soda paste and let it dry on the bite, that worked.
If outdoors we put mud on the bite and let it dry, that worked.
Now I keep a first aid kit in my house and car. Both have a small bottle of "Sting Kill" that works even better

05-Aug-06 at 12:03 PM:
NAME: Trezure Fenton Cook
COUNTRY_OF_REMEDY: USA

INGREDIENTS: SAGE BRUSH/RABBIT BRUSH
INSTRUCTIONS: I live in northern California, and we have sage brush so this works for us, but if you get stung you rub the leaves on your bite. If its the right time of the year you can use the flower buds, and they work better. I've tried it and it does help relievt he pain itch that you get.

05-Aug-06 at 11:26 AM:
NAME: Marsha Hall
EMAIL: meh530@yhaoo.com
COUNTRY_OF_REMEDY: USA

INGREDIENTS: Clorox bleach
INSTRUCTIONS: If you get stung by a bee, wasp, etc. apply a little bit of clorox bleach to the site. This instantly takes away the pain. It REALLY works, just be careful not to get it on your colored clothing!

12-Jul-06 at 01:40 AM:
NAME: Selena Forward
COUNTRY_OF_REMEDY: Canada
NAME_OF_REMEDY: Bee Stings/Bites
INGREDIENTS: 1 rolaid
INSTRUCTIONS: I know rolaids are used for digestive reasons but my uncle (if gets sting by a bee can die within 15 min if not treated) told me and older lady had told him to : Scrape away the stinger with a card or knife to get rid of the poison sack and then lick a rolaid with a nice bit of saliva (move it around till it begins to turn rolaid white color) and place over sting bite and hold it down. It must work because we were all camping , no doctor around someone had went to the store which was 20 min aaway in the car that had his eppi pen and well hes still alive today...Isenn it first hand!

NAME: Maggie
EMAIL: maggies etc@yahoo.com
COUNTRY OF REMEDY: U.S.A.
NAME OF REMEDY: Bug bites

INSTRUCTIONS: Spray some Window cleaner (Windex or other type that contains ammonia) directly on the bite(s). Its the ammonia in the spray that relieves the itchin

heidi--
Date/Time: 2006-02-22 10:33:02 PST
Country of Remedy = barbados
Name of Remedy = to get the sting out from a bee
Ingredients =
1 green lime

Instructions = cut the lime in half a place it over where the bee stung you and this walks the sting out i did it and it worked for me so i hope it helps

Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Time: 9:07 AM EST
lcarpio
Country of Remedy: usa

Ingredients: Garlic
Instructions: Mash garlic and rub it on, it takes the pain away! Learned this from my neighber Lucy when I was a little girl. I tried to save an ant from drowing and it bit me, I was howling with pain and this was the remedy.

Date: Saturday, November 5, 2005
Time: 7:23 AM EST
Patricia Taylor
email address: gagaa1@alltel.net
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: baking soda, water
Instructions:
Mix baking soda and just a little water to make a thick paste. Apply to the area of the bite,
and you can put a bandage over it if need be to keep the paste on. I had a spider bite that just kept getting worse and worse until I thought I would have to go to the
doctor. What ever it was, it was poisonous. I applied the baking soda paste. For about 30 minutes after applying, the bite area started itching like crazy. This is because it was drawing the poison out. Do this several times a day, and if you are not gettingbetter by the next day, then you should see your doctor. Mine was dried up by the next day and was healing.

Date: Friday, October 14, 2005
Time: 4:26 PM EST
Email address: Ann
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: tooth paste regular,not gel
Instructions: Within the first 1/2 hour of getting a bite dab some toothpaste on the bite and leave on until you shower the next day and guaranteed you won't have any evidence of where you were bit.

Date: Thursday, August 4, 2005
Time: 9:03 AM EST
email address: wackiejackie2461@juno.com
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: Equate Diaper Rash Relief (made with 40% zincoxide)
Instructions: Just rub some of Equate Diaper Rash Relief on the mosquito bite until you've rubbed it in pretty good and in about 5 minutes the itch will be gone! This really does work and you can get this tube for only about 2 dollars at your local pharmacy or walmart.

Date: Friday, June 24, 2005
Time: 11:32 AM EST
Charlene
Country of Remedy: Texas (we were our own country once)

Ingredients: baking soda
vinegar
small dish
paper towel or washcloth (optional)
Instructions: Don't put meat tenderizer on a sting. Though this may provide temporary relief from itching and swelling, there are better
methods available. Meat tenderizer contains enzymes designed to dissolve the fiber structure of muscle tissue and may permanently damage nerve tissue, resulting in loss of sensation if used repeatedly in one area.We mix baking soda and vinegar in a small dish and soak the sting area
in the bubbling mixture (the chemical reaction helps to pull bee stingers out and the vinegar helps to neutralize the wasp venom, while baking
soda helps to neutralize bee venom (acid vs alkali)). Alternatively, create a compress in a washcloth or paper towel with these ingredients
and apply immediately. This has worked best for bee stings. We had honey bees living in our eaves and spent two years occationally stepping on bees in our living room. The mixture worked every time. The landlady eventually had them removed. This did not work 100% for a red wasp sting on the face, which led to extensive swelling.

Date: Saturday, June 18, 2005
Time: 3:00 AM EST
jessica robles
email address: jessicarobles23@yahoo.com
Country of Remedy: USA
Name of Remedy: bee sting
Ingredients: asprin
Instructions: remove stinger immediatley. run 1 asprin under water for a second. apply to sting. this will relieve pain and reduce sweeling. goodluck

Date: Saturday, June 18, 2005
Time: 2:56 AM EST
Submitted by: insect bites
Email address: jessica robles
email address: jessicarobles23@yahoo.com
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: clear nail polish
Instructions: this may sound completely insane but i found out this worked for me . press your finger nail to make an "X" in the middle of the
insect bite then cover infected area with clear nail polish this stops the itching immediatley. do not remove polish until the bite is gone. let me know if it worksfor you.

Date: Thursday, May 19, 2005
Time: 1:12 PM EST
kellye johnston
Country of Remedy: united states

Ingredients: meat tenderizer
Instructions: take 1 table spoon of meat tenderizer and add 3-4 drops of water to form a paste. Apply the paste directly to the sting.Instantly relieves pain. Reapply several times (every four hrs. or so) to minimize the redness and swelling. This remedy not only provides instant relief, but it also drastically reduces
healing time and severity of sting.

Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Time: 4:02 PM EST
Susan K Miller
email address: shalom2t@yahoo.com
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: Use either tabacco or baking soda
water
Instructions: wet tabacco or baking soda with enough water to make pastey and put on sting. Cover with a guaze and wait til dry. It pulls the poison and stringer out.

Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Time: 7:47 PM EST
chris
Country of Remedy: United States of America
Name of Remedy: insect stings: bee, wasp, mud wasp, carpenter bee,
yellow jacket
Ingredients: use tea tree oil or tobacco
Instructions: if you are stung, remove stinger if there is one. apply tea tree oil liberally in a circular motion surrounding the entry point- be gentle touching the point of entry! Let dry and the pain and swelling will ease in two to three minutes. re-apply if needed. as a last resort, use somewet chewing tobacco, or wet ciragette tobacco and apply the same way to the affected area. make sure the tobacco is jucy before you rub it on. Tobacco
contains a mild analgesic and will ease the pain.

Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Time: 7:37 PM EST
SHIRLEY wOODARD
email address: TONIW53@YAHOO.COM
Country of Remedy: U.S.A.
Name of Remedy: SCORPION STINGS
Ingredients: a glass of milk
Instructions: My niece was stung by a small scorpion (they are more poisonous than the adults) and was told to drink a glass of milk!!!So she drank a glass!!! She then said the pain started leaving!!!

Date: Thursday, November 4, 2004
Time: 11:16 AM EST
Email address: Colleen
Country of Remedy: USA
Name of Remedy: insect stings
Ingredients: hot water
Instructions: If you are stung by a bee, get the stinger out, first. Then get to the tub and run warm/hot water over the sting for several minutes. The hot water breaks down the toxin and the sting is gone

Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Time: 10:44 AM EST
PJC
Country of Remedy: United States

Ingredients: washcloth and hot water
Instructions: Get a washcloth wet with the hottest water you can possibly stand. Put the hot washcloth on the bite and hold it there until it's cool. Do this a couple of times and it will stop the itching for hours if not completely.

Date: Monday, October 11, 2004
Time: 3:28 AM EST
Email address: Leon Smith
email address: leonandlizsmith@xtra.co.nz
Country of Remedy: New Zealand

Ingredients: under arm deodorant or after shave.
Instructions: Apply to the affected area

Date: Monday, August 30, 2004
Time: 4:58 PM EST
Brenda
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: Preparation-H
Instructions: i know it sound gross, but get a tube of preparation H and just put a small, pea-sized, amount over insect bites. it really does work.

Dear Susan, I us liquid MYLANTA on MOSQUITO bites & it works like acharm, stops the itching & the lump is gone in a 1/2 hour. i haven't tried it on bee bites as i haven't had any but it should work also.
ThankYou

Date: Saturday, July 31, 2004
Time: 4:41 PM EST
Jacque Woodall
email address: yodasodamunky@excite.com
Country of Remedy: USA
Name of Remedy: Insect Bites
Ingredients: Baking soda
Water
Paper Towel/washcloth (both work)
Instructions: This basically a cure-all for insect bites. I am 13, and babysit my sisters all the time . They are ALWAYS getting stung
by bees, bitten by wasps, or being bitten up by mosquitoes.My mom told me about this remedy, and It has worked on every last bee/flea/mosquito/wasp etc. bite you could imagine.

Okay... here's the recepie.
1- Take your paper towel, fold it into quarters and soak it in water.
2- Ring it out. (But make sure it's still a bit drippy)
3- Get about a teaspoonful of baking soda and pour it onto the paper
towel.
4- Mix it up so it has a 'pasty' look.
5- Place it on the bite/sting, and (if possible) wrap it with
something, so it is pressed onto the bite.

Leave it on about 1/2 an hour for small bites, and leave it on about an
hour for beestings.

**If the person bitten/stung has abnormal swelling, or shows signs of a
serious allergic reaction, call 9-1-1!!
Some people can die from bites/stings if they are not treated
immeadetly!!**

Date: Friday, July 30, 2004
Time: 12:15 AM EST
ashley abernathy
Country of Remedy: usa

Ingredients: chewing tobacco
Instructions: get the chewing tobacco moist(chew on it to get it moist), then put the tobacco onto the affected area. wrap a bandage around the tobacco. the longer you leave it on, the more it will bring down swellingand keep it from swelling more.

Date: Sunday, July 11, 2004
Time: 4:35 AM EST
Tessa
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: clear nail polish
Instructions: just put it on the bite and let it dry...try not to scratch bites because i have scars all over my poor toes from it, try rubbing (not hard) around the itchy area instead of scratching.

Date: Sunday, April 18, 2004
Time: 1:22 PM EST
Email address: Brandi
Subject: Home RemedyCountry of Remedy: USA
Name of Remedy: Ant Bites
Ingredients: tea tree oil
Instructions: Right after you get a ant bite(or more than 1 ant bite) get tee tree oil, a cotton ball, and put the oil on the cotton ball and rub it on the bite(s). The pain,itchyness should go away in a few min.

Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Time: 4:34 PM EST
Mrs. Tammy Lopez
email address: TammyLopez1963@aol.com
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: tomato
Instructions: PLace a small slice of tomato on an insect sting and it will relieve the pain as well as reduce the swelling.

Date: Sunday, January 11, 2004
Time: 2:30 PM EST
Gerald Brumley
email address: gfbrumley1@alltel.net
Country of Remedy: USA
Name of Remedy: wasp & bee stings
Ingredients: regular mustard
Instructions: Let me say at first that I don't claim that it will work if you are alergic to stings, please take normal precautions!While boating, a friend and myself stopped at a old camp to see what shape it was in. My friend was stung by a red wasp. We were searching for something to put on the sting and all we could find was an old jar of mustard and used it in desperation. Amazingly it worked better than tobacco which was the family remedy we were raised with.Simply apply some regular mustard to the sting as soon as possible. It
will sting quite a bit but leave it until it drys and falls off on its own. It's my theory that it draws the poison out almost immediatly. Several people have doubted this remedy until they used it.My daughter is married to a parametic whose family is all in medical
professions. When she first introduced this remedy to them, they had thier doupts but soon realized that it worked when they tried it.
You will be amazed at how fast the pain and swelling goes away.

Date: Monday, December 29, 2003
Time: 9:26 PM EST
Email address: Summer L.
Country of Remedy: USA
Name of Remedy: spider bites
Ingredients: Vinegar
Instructions: Soak a cotton ball in vinegar and place it over the spider / bug bite. When we got bites on our hand or foot, we would put the soaked cotton ball in a bag and put our infected hand / foot in the bag over night. You would have to make sure that the bag was not tight around the wrist / ankle. You might also hold the soaked cotton ball in place by a band aid. By morning, the swelling and / or soreness should be gone as if you hadn't been bitten.

Date: Friday, October 24, 2003
Time: 3:28 PM EST
Email address: Alan R. Gammons
Country of Remedy: United States of America

Ingredients: Adolph's Meat-tenderizer or other brand.
Instructions: Simply make add just enough water to make the powder turn into a paste and apply for relief of both pain and swelling.It usually provides relief within 5 minutes.

Date: Sunday, October 12, 2003
Time: 9:42 PM EST
Tiffany Cook
tiffaroous@yahoo.com
Country of Remedy: United States

Ingredients: Cigarette Tobacco
Instructions: Unroll a cigarette and place on any kind of sting (bee, yellow jacket, wasp, jelly fish and many more). Place the tobacco directly on sore and the it will take the sting/hurt right out. When I was a child I also had snuff put on my wasp sting.

Date: Sunday, October 12, 2003
Time: 1:14 AM EST
Joy
tigresscatfish@aol.com
Country of Remedy: USA
Name of Remedy: mosquito bites
Ingredients: lotion
Instructions: When bitten by mosquitos simply rub any type of body lotion on bite and the itching is gone.

Date: Sunday, October 12, 2003
Time: 1:20 AM EST
Joy
tigresscatfish@aol.com
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: human saliva
Instructions: We were told about this and did not believe it until we had no lotion or any other source of itch relief available. When you
feel that irritable itch from a mosquito bite simply apply some saliva to the bite. As it dries the itching goes away and you never know you were bitten. Sounds gross but it works!!

Date: Monday, September 22, 2003
Time: 9:47 PM EST
Country of Remedy: usa

Ingredients: activated charcoal
Instructions: make a paste of powered activated charcoal and water and
apply to sting.

Date: Saturday, September 13, 2003
Time: 12:22 AM EST
Cw
Subject: Home Remedy
Name of Remedy: mosquito bite
Ingredients: amonia
Instructions: put some amonia on a piece of paper towel and place it over the bite. This will take the itching and swelling away. Just let the paper stick there and fall off when it dries.

Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2003
Time: 5:47 PM EST
Email address: Samantha
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: tobacco
Instructions: Just wet the tobacco (any form) and rub it on the affected area.

Date: Thursday, July 24, 2003
Time: 11:53 PM EST
Jayne
Ontario

Ingredients: Preparation H
Instructions: Take a small amount of the cream and rub into bites. Instant relief from the itch and no swelling

Date: Sunday, July 20, 2003
Time: 9:32 PM EST
LuuLuu
Vietnam

Ingredients: tiger balm
Instructions: Just rub tiger balm over the bite and the swelling and
itchiness should stop within an hour or so Date: Monday, June 30, 2003
Time: 4:58 PM EST
Email address: Nick Williams
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: chewing tobacco, water, and a band-aid
Instructions: Take a pinch of chewing tobacco and run just enough water of it so that it hardly gets wet, but still wet. Place the tobacco on the sting then cover it with a band-aid. every 10 or 15 seconds apply pressure on the band-aid and with every little bit of water that comes out, toxins from the sting come out as well.My friend told me these two remedies for bites from mosquitoes. First one- Put chapstick on the bit every two hours. Second-(It hurts a tad) Take a knife and cut open the mosquito bite then clean it out. After the bleeding stops (There is not much a couple of drops or so) Then put some tooth paste on it It works trust me!

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Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Time: 7:24 AM EST
Email address: Loui

Ingredients: Tea tree oil
Instructions: Put tea tree oil on cotton wool and dab on the bite.

Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Time: 1:46 PM EST
Country of Remedy: U.S.A.
Bee/Wasp stings
Ingredients: Tobacco(From a cigarette)
Instructions: Remove tobacco from the cigarette. Mix the tobacco with saliva.(Preferably the saliva of the sting victim) Once you have a glob of the mixture, apply it to the affected area. It sounds nasty but it works.

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Insect bites - apply methalated spirits to the bite area. This will
stop the itching within minutes.
Regards,
Vicky. New Zealand.

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Greg Headberg
Greg.Headberg@CityofHouston.net
USA

Ingredients: 1 Aspirin and Water

Wet a normal aspirin (not the buffered kind) and hold it on the sting site. The acid from the aspirin destroys the poison.

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bluemundy
bluemundy@hotmail.com
usa

Instructions: just dab on ammonia to bite area with a cotton swab thats the ingreadiant in those anti itch sticks ya get at the drug store much cheaper to buy ammonia

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Name: Shannon
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: Meat tenderizer and water
Instructions: Mix a teaspoon of Meat Tenderizer and a little water to make a paste and apply to bite area. Works good for mosquito bites.

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Instructions: As soon as a bee stings you, suck on the place where you
have been stung. then rinse out your mouth.no pain, no itch garenteed!!0or if you can't reach it, just rub on mud!

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Submitted by: Kim D
Country of Remedy: American

Place a piece of fresh potatoe on top of your bee bite,
it should stop the sting. The juices
help absorb the bees poisin.If you don't want to wastse potatoe, fry
and eat when feeling better....!

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D Carr
USA

A remedy for bee and waspÊstings. I learned this from my grandmother and it works great. Just mix baking soda and water to make a paste and put it on the sting. Leave it on until it dries and crumbles. It keeps the swelling down and stops the pain.

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Cindy
Canada

dab some strong mint toothpasteonto the bite. It s the mint that numbs it.