My Neighbors Bee Sting and Chicken Poop

[maplesky7]

...and yet honey is used for treatments.

"The PR Newswire in August, 1999, released an article about the healing properties of honey. "Clinical trials have demonstrated that honey dressings rapidly clear bacteria from infected wounds. A clinical trial has also demonstrated that simply dressing with honey is just as effective as aggressive surgical removal of infected tissue as a treatment for necrotising fasciitis, the "flesh-eating" bacteria," says the article."


I've heard it is an antiseptic and have used it on my family. I love honey bees.

 

[cassie]

The most likely source of the infection is the woman's own skin. The bee just pushed the bacteria in. While yellow jackets may carry bacteria on their stingers, I have gotten stung be them many times and never gotten an infection from a sting. As for the doctor, I have seen doctor's come up with stranger theories than that. Just because a person has a lot of formal education, and degrees out to HERE, it doesn't mean they have any common sense.

 

[Chicken daze(d)]

Maplesky7 you are all over this!!! I actually tried googling bees and bacterial infection two nights ago and did not get near as much info. Though to be honest I was just looking for info. on the possibility of bees getting bacteria from poo. My search must have been too narrow.

Nevertheless, the gist of it for me is that I'm sensitive to my chickens and don't want my neighbors not liking them. She says she loves them and wanted her own. But people can say one thing and mean another. I, however, could be reading way tooooo much into what she said, as I have been known to do.

Allrighty then. Better scoot.

 

[maplesky7]

I used to have bees and as I said there is a cow pasture right across the road... it interested me because I think it sounded quite silly. And would love to talk to all my bee farmers about it.