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Bootpathguy Member
Joined: 18 Jun 2015 Posts: 1787 | TRs | Pics Location: United States |
Experience is what'cha get, when you get what'cha don't want
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Anne Elk BrontosaurusTheorist
Joined: 07 Sep 2018 Posts: 2410 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
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Anne Elk
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Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:47 pm
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Fascinating article, BPG. Thanks for sharing it. Despite being a beekeeper, I had no idea there were anti-venom therapies for insect stings, only anaphylaxis treatment.
One thing about anaphylaxis is that it doesn't always involve developing hives and airway constriction; and a reaction doesn't necessarily come with the first couple stings. I learned this from one of my friends in bee club. After beekeeping for several years, he got stung somewhere on the head/face, and then within a half hour or so began feeling sick and his wife called the paramedics. He experienced a precipitous drop in blood pressure and it took 2 epi-pen shots to stabilize him while being transported to the hospital. That was the end of his hobby.
"There are yahoos out there. It’s why we can’t have nice things." - Tom Mahood
"There are yahoos out there. It’s why we can’t have nice things." - Tom Mahood
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Sculpin Member
Joined: 23 Apr 2015 Posts: 1376 | TRs | Pics
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Thu Nov 19, 2020 8:53 am
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Anne Elk wrote: | a reaction doesn't necessarily come with the first couple stings |
I discovered this when a friend who works as a landscaper went into anaphylactic shock from a single yellow jacket sting between her fingers. She had been stung many times in the past and never had a reaction.
Everyone who spends a lot of time outdoors should know about how anaphylactic shock works. You do not need to be "allergic" in the traditional sense of having a reaction during an allergy test, sometimes your body just responds in an inappropriate way.
Between every two pines is a doorway to the new world. - John Muir
Between every two pines is a doorway to the new world. - John Muir
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Brucester Member
Joined: 02 Jun 2013 Posts: 1102 | TRs | Pics Location: Greenwood |
Way back when, working my favorite job as a landscaper in Woodbridge, CT. I waded into a yellow jacket hive without knowing while pruning a hemlock. I was trying to get that one last branch...
Moments later, I felt "weird." Hives and loss of balance. I was in my early 20's and these sensations were subtle.
Luckily the homeowner hadn't left for brunch and I was able to get a ride in the back of his car to the ER.
I have been stung since, even in the eye socket by a bald faced hornet without such a severe reaction.
I did get new Epi pen's but they got recalled right before Covid19... I've never had to use one.
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