dc197
New Bee
- Joined
- Aug 6, 2010
- Messages
- 42
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3
Hi all
I have been unlucky recently with three bouts of cellulitis (infection of the fatty tissues under the skin) after stings. My foot swelled up to the size of a tree trunk, my face so fat I could not open my eye, and I had a fat finger. In each case I needed antibiotics to kill the infection.
I know that my reactions are not just allergies to the venom because 1) it takes 12+ hours for the infection swelling to start, whereas allergies come up in minutes; 2) it doesn't get infected every time (I even got stung on both ankles and only one foot swelled); and 3) two doctors have diagnosed (not just home diagnosis) as cellulitis; and 4) it doesn't get infected and swell every time I am stung.
I went to see my GP to ask when I suffer so. He fobbed me off.
Does anyone else seem incredibly unlucky with infections (not allergies) from stings? Did you do anything to help not get infected?
Here are two pictures....
Face (note how it spread down my cheek after being stung once on the eyelid):
http:// www . facebook . com/photo.php?pid=4586640&l=8e62f38225&id=516724171
Foot (15 stings on EACH foot):
http:// www . facebook . com/photo.php?pid=4163886&l=5314915d50&id=516724171
Thanks
Daniel
I have been unlucky recently with three bouts of cellulitis (infection of the fatty tissues under the skin) after stings. My foot swelled up to the size of a tree trunk, my face so fat I could not open my eye, and I had a fat finger. In each case I needed antibiotics to kill the infection.
I know that my reactions are not just allergies to the venom because 1) it takes 12+ hours for the infection swelling to start, whereas allergies come up in minutes; 2) it doesn't get infected every time (I even got stung on both ankles and only one foot swelled); and 3) two doctors have diagnosed (not just home diagnosis) as cellulitis; and 4) it doesn't get infected and swell every time I am stung.
I went to see my GP to ask when I suffer so. He fobbed me off.
Does anyone else seem incredibly unlucky with infections (not allergies) from stings? Did you do anything to help not get infected?
Here are two pictures....
Face (note how it spread down my cheek after being stung once on the eyelid):
http:// www . facebook . com/photo.php?pid=4586640&l=8e62f38225&id=516724171
Foot (15 stings on EACH foot):
http:// www . facebook . com/photo.php?pid=4163886&l=5314915d50&id=516724171
Thanks
Daniel