help! bee sting! what to do?

[norkmaiden]

lovely MNers please help - 2 yo ds just got stung by a bee, on his wrist! Can't see anything like a sting to pull out - could he have brushed it away or something? There's a dead bee at the top of his slide, where he suddenly started screaming and holding out his hand, and a red pinprick on his wrist - so it must be a sting. I've wiped over the area with dettol and put a bit of germolene for (hopefully) some local anaesthetic, but am worried about the idea of a sting stuck in his wrist??

Please help if you can!

thank SC - have been googling furiously to find out what to do...ds seems okay now though. Will keep an eye on him though.

any other bee sting veterans out there??

please?

no no no, not vinegar - you need bicarb of soda (vinegar is for wasp stings)

bicarb

b for bicarb

w(asp) for winegar

That's how I remember it too Saint

Bicarb for bee stings, vinegar for wasp stings.
Bee stings are acidic, so bicarb neutralises it, wasp stings are alcaline (sp?)so viniger neutralises it.

Hope LO is feeling better!

Thanks Chloe - don't think we've got any bicarb atm...oh bugger
Would the sting be visible if it was still in his wrist do you think?

hahaha, you guys got there first!

I would have thought so - there's nowhere for it to go other than out really, you'd be able to see it if it was still in there - he might have knocked it out when he rubbed his wrist. Is the bee on the slide without it's sting?

thanks all you others - milk maybe instead?
Ds seems okay now, thanks SM, he's had some 'special chocolate' - aero - reserved for dire emergencies such as this...

Chloe I dunno, it was still wriggling so I whacked it with a big stick (out of fury that the evil thing stung ds!). It's probably bee carnage under the slide...

Onions are highly alkaline - I wonder if you were to cut one in half and rub that on the sting it might help the pain?

cheers again Chloe - seems okay now but definitely filing the onion thing for (hopefully not needed) future ref...