If you don’t want to read it all, here you go: Wasp Sting Recipe.
DISCLAIMER: This is not medical advice. If you need to seek medical attention, PLEASE do so!
Spring has sprung and all the lil buggies are out. Everything is waking up, scurrying around and enjoying the weather. Including us. And sometimes nature and humans don’t always mix. Recently, one of those times came up.
Every year, wasps invade a bush by our home’s front entrance. I would LOVE to cut that bush down or even dig it up. Alas, this is not our property so, we deal. Antoine usually goes through the process of extermination before they get too bad but apparently, on the very first day they decided to come out to “play” and we who pay rent and live here, were in the way of “their” bush.
Our boy-child, Jujubean, got stung. Twice. By the same wasp. On the neck and thumb. It was a not-so-fun episode. Now would be a great time to show a picture, but I was in “Mommy-doctor” mode and didn’t get any. Y’all understand, right?
Unfortunately, I wasn’t home at the time that it happened, but I did just pull up maybe a minute or two into the episode. I came home just as my dad was pouring alcohol on the sting. I love my dad, bless his heart. Don’t know why a sting would warrant alcohol to cause more burn, but, to him it made sense. Anyway, I stopped him, and whip up a quick home remedy that got the boy-child back in the saddle again. Here’s the best part, the remedy consisted of only two ingredients, and I already had them in the house – easily accessible!
Of course as always, seek medical attention and this is NOT a substitute for it – especially if there is an allergy. I’m just sharing what I was able to do for my son for this sting. The baking soda counter acts with and draws out the venom taking the pain away. He was pain free in less than a minute (so he says). The area was red of course, but he was able to go swimming 30 minutes later for practice with no problems.
Again, if you have young children or feel the need to seek medical attention, PLEASE do so. Especially if there are multiple stings. Wasps are different in that unlike bees, they can sting more than once and once the “smell” of their sting gets to others nearby, they will swarm. Wasps can kill you. So BE CAREFUL.