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Summer Stings

Boomernichols — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:11:21 GMT

I went outside with my dog to go check the mailbox and got ambushed. Idid not see a bee or wasp but I truly got stung under the eye next to my lashes and on top of my eyelid. OUCH Nowthat side of my nose is running like a faucet.I have just taken a Benadryl and put some iceon it andboy does it hurt! How is your day?

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chrystaltree — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:18:36 GMT

Wow. Scary. Just make sure the stinger isn't still in.

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Bri369 — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:18:46 GMT

That's terrible. I hope it doesn't get too swollen.

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Pqfan — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:29:56 GMT

Oh no. hugs to you.

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Nightowlz — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:30:19 GMT

Ouch that's awful. Hope you feel better soon. Never been stung by a bee.

DH keeps getting mosquito bites. I guess he's allergic to them. He ends up with red infected looking places from the bites. They also itch like crazy. They don't bother me. He's also allergic to bee stings.

One of our dogs once got stung by something on her poor nose. She was having problems breathing. The Vet said give her Benadryl.

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NicksmomESQ — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:33:31 GMT

Maybe you should go to Urgent Care for an allergy shot.Many years ago I got a mosquito bite on my eyelid & the next morning it was swollen shut.I ended up in the ER.

Good luck. I hope you feel better soon.Try some ice for the swelling.

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Sweetbay magnolia — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:44:42 GMT

I know how it is. I traipse around in the woods and meadow every day and I think I have every imaginable type of sting or bite somewhere, along with a good dose of chiggers and poison ivy.

I love this time of the year, though. Makes me feel like a kid again.

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Nightowlz — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:51:06 GMT

@Sweetbay magnolia wrote:
I know how it is. I traipse around in the woods and meadow every day and I think I have every imaginable type of sting or bite somewhere, along with a good dose of chiggers and poison ivy.

I love this time of the year, though. Makes me feel like a kid again.

@Sweetbay magnolia

DH had bites all over from Chiggers. I had never heard of them. He removed some old shrubs. Guess the shrubs or soil was full of chiggers. At first we did not know what caused it. I searched online & came across chiggers. He asked the pharmacist & they sold him a jar of Chiggerex.

He seems to have really bad reaction to all these different critter bites.

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Sweetbay magnolia — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:56:59 GMT

@Nightowlz , my DH always gets chiggers and they really irritate him. I am going to look into this "Chiggerex" stuff you mention. He won't take anything stronger than aspirin for joint pain but he has a closet full of lotions, creams, and ointments for minor irritations.

He has a nice Q-tip stash also.

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Nightowlz — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:00:26 GMT

@Sweetbay magnolia wrote:
@Nightowlz , my DH always gets chiggers and they really irritate him. I am going to look into this "Chiggerex" stuff you mention. He won't take anything stronger than aspirin for joint pain but he has a closet full of lotions, creams, and ointments for minor irritations.

He has a nice Q-tip stash also.

@Sweetbay magnolia

You will have to ask the pharmacist for it. He has bought it twice & both times it was behind the counter. I don't know why?

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Scooby Doo — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 23:26:37 GMT

Ouch. I've been ambushed a couple of times myself. Hurts like crazy. For some reason we've had an influx of yellowjacket hornets the last couple of years. Last year was crazy. I put out traps and had to change them out every 3 days. I caught hundreds. I used all kinds of sprays and it didn't deter them. This year I haven't seen very many, but it just started to get hot and that's when they show up. One year they were getting in my house and I couldn't figure out why. I did a lot of searching for holes. I'd suck them up with the vacuum in the kitchen window. Then one day I turned on the kitchen vent fan in the ceiling and it wasn't working. So I stood under it and looked up and suddenly the blades popped open and there was a big ole' hornets nest in my kitchen vent. I did get stung my one while I was working in the kitchen. It snuck up on me. Had to get up on the roof and wrap the vent with window screen so they couldn't come back.

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SandySparkles — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 01:10:09 GMT

OMG I cannot imagine your discomfort right now. A good old fashioned ice pack should offer some relief also. I hope you are on the mend real soon

~~~All we need is love

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bells4me — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 04:27:11 GMT

My granddaughter was in Phoenix 3 hours away & got stung by a scorpion. Had to stop at emergency half way home because her arm went numb & vision got blurry. Witnin 2 minutes she got 2 shots and an rx for an epi-pen which she now has to carry. The scorpion fell off her overnight bag when she got home.

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Big Sis — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 06:19:12 GMT

I bought Chiggerex off the shelf at Wal-Mart in the first aid aisle. The itching from chigger bites is more intense than any mosquito bite. I read online that chigger bites are not dangerous, but you will spend three nights in h*ll. That seems to hold true. Chiggers like to hang out in tall grass, especially near water.

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coffeegal — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 08:41:30 GMT

That is just awful..Bee stings are the worst and where you got it, had to hurt like crazy. We were at a wedding on Saturday and I got stung by a bee on my neck.It was an outside wedding and I was so hot. I thought that it was sweat dripping but it was actually a yellow jacket. My husband got the stinger out and it didn't swell so I figured I was ok.. Then on Monday I woke up to a welt where the sting was. It also gad started to itch.. I took Bendrayl. This morning its just about gone.. I hope that yours is better too.

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lovesrecess — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 01:13:57 GMT

Growing up, we got eaten alive by chiggers when we went to my grandmas house in the summer; she lived by a creek and we always played outside. She painted our legs with Chigger-rid...it looked like clear nail polish and boy did it sting! She put a small oscillating fan aimed at our legs so it didn’t sting so much. Memories.

i read that chiggers burrow into your skin and die...isn’t that a nice thought?

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lovesrecess — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 00:13:56 GMT

Benedryl extra strength anti itch cream is the best...I just stocked up on another large tube...the
“no see-ums” are already starting to be a problem.