In this article you will learn what happens to bees and Osami after bites, and other interesting facts about the bite of the web -winged insects.
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Why does the bee die after the bite after sting and is not a wasp?
Many people have repeatedly have to deal with bites of bees or OS. Especially often these insects fly near flowering plants or trees, near sweets. Walls can be sutured by a nest even on the balcony. Therefore, meeting with these insects is not at all difficult.
The first thing a person feels after a bite is pain. A natural reaction arises - to take revenge on the offender. But often a bee or wasp just flies away, leaving his sting in the skin of a person.
Important: in fact, a bite for a bee is not harmless, even if it managed to fly away. The bee is worse than a person. After all, it is known that after a bite the bee dies.
Why is this happening? The sting of the bee looks like a small harpoon - a tip with small Zazubins. When the sting pierces the skin of a person, the bee can no longer reach it back due to the fact that elastic skin tightly compresses the zazubina. The bee in an attempt to get its sting, tear off part of the intestines and flies away. The injury does not leave the bee a chance of survival, and the insect soon dies.
The situation is completely different with the Osami. Unlike the sting of a bee, the wasp has smooth. If you look at the stings of wasps and bees under a microscope, you can see the difference. Osa easily takes out his sting after a bite and draws back into the abdomen. It is for this reason that the wasp can sting several times in a row until all the poison splashes out. Even if for some reason, for example, when a person tried to kill the Os, the sting remains in the skin, the insect does not die. Just the wasp loses his ability to sting a person.
IMPORTANT: Asse sting is one of the most acute devices in the world. The bites of some OS are not only safe, but can also be useful. Scientists have proven that Brazilian wasps distinguish a poison that destroys cancer cells. The poison of such OS acts selectively and does not damage healthy cells.
The sting of a bee or wasp is a complex tool. It is located in the abdomen. Thanks to the flexibility of the body of the insect, it appears exactly on the target. Work bees and uterus have a sting, drones do not have such an organ. In the uterus, the sting is a changed egg, the uterus is not able to sting a person or animal. Working bees sting, we will talk about the reasons below.
Why do bees sting people?
Many people have a question if the bee dies, why should she sting people or animals?
Important: the bee does not sting a person just like that, if you do not touch it, then this insect is very peaceful. With the help of a poisonous sting, she defends herself.
The reasons why bees can sting a person or animal:
- Protects the hive from encroachment on honey;
- Defends if it was crushed or pressed;
- It is protected if it is confused in clothes or hair.
It can be very difficult for a person to calm down at the sight of a bee or wasp. Most begin to wave their hands, run away, make sudden movements. Such actions provoke a bee, and it stings. Wasp can sting several times if you try to fight off it.
What do we have to do? If the bee attacked you near the hive, this means that it protects her housing. You need to easily move away from the hive away. If you do not do this, the probability that other bees will attack you very great.
Important: the bee releasing a sting, highlights a special substance. In this substance, other bees receive a signal that they are in danger. Then the bees begin to attack the enemy with a whole group. Thus, at the cost of the life of many of their brothers, the bees protect the beekeeping from the invasion of a person or animal.
If the bee flew into the room, try not to panic, but carefully with the help of a towel or newspaper, show her the way out. It happens that the bee sits on a person and does not sting. This is confirmed by the fact that the bee does not attack the first.
Many people put flowers in the summer for the balcony in the apartment or on flower beds in the country. They may encounter a bee that flew to collect nectar. Those who will not wave their hands, fight off and make sharp movements, the chances of remaining unharmed more than the one who takes opposite actions.
But sometimes there are times when bees sting even a calm person or animal. This happens for such reasons:
- Bees do not tolerate sweat. Especially often they suffer because of this horse.
- Bees do not like pungent odors.
- When there is no bribe in nature, the bees become angry and aggressive. This happens closer to autumn.
The peacefulness of the bees depends on the breed: the Caucasian bee is more peaceful than northern or medium -Russian.
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First aid for a bite of a bee or wasp
A bee or wasp, inject poison into the human body with the help of their sting. Therefore, the skin swells, blushes and hurts. If you were stung by a wasp or a bee, you must urgently take measures, provide first aid:
- Get a sting. You can do this using tweezers, needles. The tweezers or needle must be wiped with a disinfectant solution, after extracting the sting, the skin area should also be disinfected.
- Apply a cooling compress or ice.
- Take an antihistamine (Eden, Claritin, Fenistil, L-Cet, Diazolin, Erius, Zodak, etc.)
After a bite, pain and edema can be felt for a long time. Waste bites, as a rule, are more painful than the bites of the bee.
Often children are subjected to bites or OS:
- Firstly, children like to eat sweets, which attracts insects;
- Secondly, it is impossible to make children calm down, they will wave their hands, at the sight of a dangerous insect;
- Thirdly, often children play in the fresh air and can turn off the aspen nest, the bites in this case are inevitable.
Therefore, in the first -aid kit there should always be a means to help the child:
- Antihistamine syrup. It is recommended to take, even in the absence of signs of allergies, the syrup will relieve pain.
- Cooling ointments from insect bites (mosquito, psilo-balm, phenastil gel).
- You can spread the bite area restoring the skin with creams (Bepanten, Panthenol, Dexpanthenol, Children's Cream).
If such a nuisance happened to the child, do not panic, this will cause even greater fear of the already excited baby. Try without panic and provide assistance to the child in a timely manner. At the first bite of the bee, a strong reaction in children is unlikely. But this case can provoke an insect allergy in the future.
There are terrible cases when a person has an allergy to bee and OS bites. A person’s condition can be bad:
- The temperature may rise.
- Edema spreads more than 10 cm from the bite point.
- Dizziness, shortness of breath, heavy breathing are noted.
- The heartbeat quickens.
A person may not know about the fact that he is allergic until he bothers him. If the above reactions are observed, it is urgent to contact an ambulance. Before the arrival of the ambulance, these actions are important:
- If you bit the bee in the limb, put the tourniquet 15 cm above the bite. You can’t keep the tourniquet for more than 45 minutes.
- Put an ice compress on the area around the bite.
- Grind the Suprastin tablet so that the victim can swallow it if the larynx suddenly swells.
How to remove edema after a bite of the bee with folk remedies?
Important: situations when there are no medications for first aid for insect bites at hand, often happen. Tourists, lovers of relaxing in nature or in the country should not forget about this safety rule.
But when there are no medicines at hand, and the bee is bitten, you can try to relieve pain, and also relieve swelling with folk remedies:
- Lotions with soda. In 1 glass of water, dilute a teaspoon of baking soda, moisten a piece of gauze in this solution, attach to the sore spot.
- It is recommended to drink tea or a glass of water with lemon.
- Activated carbon and aspirin will help to remove poison. Only inside to take these pills is not necessary, because there is no food poisoning. Grind the tablets, add a little water to make the gruel. This mixture must be attached to the sore spot.
- Grinded parsley leaves will help remove swelling. To do this, fresh parsley must be chopped, pour boiling water. When the liquid has cooled, moisten a cotton pad in the solution and attach to the edema.
- The Aloe plant was not in vain the nickname "Home Doctor". It saves in many cases, also effective in winged insect bites. You can apply aloe juice or a whole leaf to the edema, pulp to the sore spot. Pain, redness, edema pass after several techniques for applying aloe.
- The onion contains bactericidal substances that eliminate the components of the poison. A few minutes after applying onions, edema decreases significantly, redness goes away. Onions can be applied in the form of gruel, as well as a cut half. The main thing is that the juice stands out.
- The iodine grid helps to remove swelling. She fights with the inflammatory process at its initial stage.
- Olive oil. Chilled olive oil will help relieve swelling. Unsaturated fatty acids contribute to the regeneration and restoration of the skin.
- The compress of yarrow. The leaves of this plant can be mixed with parsley leaves, grind them into the gruel and applied to the bite.
- Fresh potatoes cool the burning pain and reduce swelling.
Can a bee or a wasps be fatal?
Boots of bees and OS for most people do not pose a mortal danger. But there are times when deaths occur.
Consider cases when the danger of a bite of bees or OS is high:
- With a mass attack of bees or OS, as well as with numerous bites.
- If the bite fell into the throat, neck. Large edema is able to block the respiratory tract.
- A bite in the eye can cause a suppuration process, vision of vision is possible in a weak or strong measure.
- A bite to the genital area. At the same time, urination is difficult and severe pain occurs.
- If a person has an allergy to insect bites. Such people should always have an allergic passport with them indicating the list of medicines.
Important: insects, small birds, mice can die from one bite of a bee. With a bite, the bee is released up to 0.3 mg of toxic substance. When the poison exceeds the threshold of 2 grams, the case may result in death. Do not neglect the help of doctors, there are times when only emergency help saves a person life.
In order not to be subjected to bites of bees, OS, Hornie, you just need to calmly leave their habitat, if you still have to collide, try not to touch them. Now you know how to provide first aid if a bee bit you.