One or more prior severe reactions to insect bites to place you at increased risk of severe reactions with each sting.
It is important to ensure that providers know that you are stung, and when the reactions in the past. Be prepared to care about all the medicines you have taken the sting, both prescription and nonprescription say. Remember, all the preparation of herbal or other treatments that you have created.
Physical examination is the most important part of the evaluation of insect bites. Your blood pressure and heart rate are checked to ensure that you are not in shock.
The study is expected swelling of the skin and include hives, wheezing lungs and upper respiratory tract for a swelling or obstruction. An ECG or chest radiograph can be useful, but it is not necessary in all cases. Laboratory tests are generally not useful. For most insect bites, home care is all that is needed.
If the stinger is still in the skin, as it is usually after the bee, it must be removed immediately. You can scrape the site with a credit card or similar device, right angles to the skin. A nail can be used. Pull the stitch tight in order, it is not desirable because they inject venom.
If the sting of the hands or feet, where tight rings or other jewelry worn, they must be removed immediately before swelling develops in a compression of the blood supply in these areas to avoid.
Take an antihistamine pill, such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl). This helps to fight against one of the mediators of the reaction and help control itching. Diphenhydramine is available without prescription. Warning – This medicine is for most people drowsy or operating machinery to drive safely. It can be taken every six hours for the first days until the swelling starts to improve.
Hydrocortisone cream, available over the counter, available on the site of the insect bite to relieve itching, apply. Make a paste of baking soda or salt water and rubbed on the skin can bring relief.
More severe reactions, of course, the treatment is not recommended. Call your doctor or 911, depending on the severity of your symptoms. Try not to behave. If nobody is available to drive for you, call an ambulance.
If you are wheezing or difficulty breathing, use an inhaled bronchodilator such as salbutamol (Proventil) or epinephrine (Primates Mist) if one exists. These drugs increase airway inhalation.
If you have received an epinephrine kit, inject you have loaded. The kit contains a measured dose of epinephrine, a prescription drug that rapidly reverses the most severe symptoms.
Spectators should administer CPR to a person who is unconscious and not breathing or has no pulse. If possible, you or your advisor should be prepared for medical personnel, medicines that you met today, you generally have to tell, and any known allergies.