Wasp!!! Ouch!!!

[farrier!]

Was trying to move water tanks. Suddenly arm hurt really really bad....sure enough a wasp decided to not like me moving things and stung me.

I have iced it and taken a benadryl. Is there anything else I should do? I usually just leave bugs alone and they leave me alone. I think it has been 15 years, last time I had a bit of an systemic reaction.

 

[Mahonri]

I went to the southeast corner of my coop last evening to water down a new ant hill (I'd finished up the last of the bug spray)... A wasp came at me out from under the eaves of the coop, but luckily I moved it away with the spray of water... there was also one of it's little mud hole nests in the oleanders behind me and I dispatched it with the hose also... those stings can be so painful!

My son was stung 3 years ago on a park bench in upstate NY... and did it ever swell up!! Ice and Benadryl is about the only thing that works.

 

[PeeperKeeper]

Ammonia. Yep, it will break down the poison composition and help stop the reaction. Keep one of those "Stingstop" things you can buy at the local pharmacy always on hand.
Yeah a wasp sting can feel just like someone wapped you with a steel rod....really hard

 

[farrier!]

Quote:
Is that what is in them?
I will get some.

 

[RooptyDoo]

Put a penny on the sting for 15 minutes. Somehow it counteracts with the sting. It works I have done this many times no swelling or hurting at all after you take it off.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

slice a fresh potato to put on it.