My husband is very sensitive to insect stings, when he is bitten they turn into huge open sores.
so the next day you wont even know you were bitten. within a few minutes the pain goes away and it never swells. The onion remedy acts as a poultice i guess. she thought she had been stung by yellow jackets since they often nest in the ground, but nope. she was transplanting shrubs when she dug into their nest. they were large and black and they JUMPED. we once discovered a truly bizarre type of ant. i had been stung about five times by yellow jackets (a type of wasp for those that dont know) she put a piece of onion on each sting, except for the one beside my eye, she used an ice cube and that was the only place that swelled up. my mom is a HUGE advocate for this remedy, and has used it on me several times when i was a kid. THAT wouldn't make you sleepy and it would treat it for allergies.įresh cut onion reduces the swelling and pain of any insect sting. If you can get to a health store see if you can get Hylands "Hives" blend - that would work really well on red ant bites.
Then rub THAT on the bites for some topical relief. You CAN open 4-5 benedryl capsules and add maybe a tablespoon of water and let it dissolve. Red ants inject a poison when they bite so it's not just anaphylactic shock. Literally ammonia straight from the bottle applied to the bites AFTER you open them - that will kill the itch. The other thing you can use topiocally, but it's a royal pain, is ammonia. I was in the infirmary for 3 days- and that's where I learned you had to scratch the head off and squeeze the poison out as fully as you can (it's clear) and either put peroxide or similar on the bites. let's just say well above my knees, ok? I was biitten all over and had probably like 25 bites on me. I had those darned things all over my legs from my toes to.
#DOG FIRE ANT BITES FULL#
We had to wear skirts and hose ALL the time and I discovered late in the afternoon that the CARPET where I was kneeling to file was FULL of fire ants that had come up from the ground thru the insulation (I was on THIRD floor). One time when I was in college, I worked for the college's book publishing company and I spent an afternoon filing statements (b-o-r-i-n-g). Fire ants are something you can be pretty badly allergic to - and it's a nasty reaction. If you aren't feeling much better tomorrow you may need to go to the ER. Stay OFF your feet - seriously - and lay flat with your feet up - that will help reduce the swelling but you really don't want this poison going thru your whole system. I would also soak them in epson salts (warm water) and maybe a couple of tablespoons of boric acid in the water as well to calm things down and to draw out more of the poison, and TAKE BENEDRYL (yeah, remember - I know who I'm talking to here - but just plain GO TO BED). Except with fire ants you HAVE to scratch the head off and release the poison or they will simply continue to spread the poison.
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