RosieMc
House Bee
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2009
- Messages
- 232
- Reaction score
- 3
- Location
- Preston uk
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3
I do hope you can help me
I have never reacted well to bee stings. Each time I got stung, the reaction was more severe. Last year, after spraying myself with (freebee tester) perfume when out shopping, I returned back home and thought I would check out my bees in my garden to see if they had swarmed during the warm weather. No, that was fine. I was stood approx 50 metres away from the calmest hive I have every had, when a few bees must have come out of their hive, had a sniff of the air and thought 'What is that dreadful smell'. They attacked my head and stung me good and proper.
15 mins later a curtain of heat swept down me from head to toe together with reddening itchy rash. I began scratching and itching like a mad woman. A few minutes after that began the most dreadful shaking. Uncontrollable. After being taken to A&E, administration of anti sickness (I vomited all over the A&E reception counter!), anti histamines, and saline drip, I was discharged. I have now completed a years course of bee venom desensitisation and no longer need an epipen.
The bees obviously did not like the smell of the perfume
This Monday gone, all dressed up for a Birthday lunch and spraying myself with a different perfume to the one above, I went into my kitchen to pick up my car keys when I felt the most painful stabbing sensation in my neck. It felt like a giant needle. Ouch I cried, but the pain continued. Fortunately I had a nurse friend with me who declared a large ant was on my neck and flicked it off. I do know that we have had problems with an ants nest in our kitchen and can only assume that judging by the description of it, it was possibly a queen. I took an antihistamine just in case I started itching as before. The ant had left a red area the size of a 10p coin with a oblong shaped hole in the middle.
10 mins went by and I began to feel ever so strange. Dizzy, disorientated. Then began the trembles I had experienced before. 'This is stupid' I thought, 'I can't possibly to to A &E and say I've been bitten by an ant!'. The trembling and shaking got worse and now effected my whole body. 'Dial 999' I told my friend. Thankfully I had an epipen and administered, or rather my friend administered as I was shaking that much I couldn't keep a steady hand to fire the pen! Quickly and ambulance car arrived and After the paramedic assessment and I was taken off to A&E where the symptoms subsided.
I am due to go to bee venom desensitisation clinic again this Wednesday and I am going to ask about ant bites/stings.
It would appear that both bees and ants DO NOT like perfumes. But has anyone done any research on this as to which ones? And why? And why isn't there a health warning on perfume bottles stating 'WARNING' may trigger insects to bite you!
I don't know if the ant bit me or stung, and cannot find anything on the web.
Bee venom is a mixture of different chemicals including mellatin, phospholipase A, and Hyaluronidase and their bite contains 2-heptanone , but I cannot find anything on ant bites and stings. Does anyone know?
I'm off to Minorca on 7th Oct where there are lots of creepy crawlies and I want to bee prepared!
I have never reacted well to bee stings. Each time I got stung, the reaction was more severe. Last year, after spraying myself with (freebee tester) perfume when out shopping, I returned back home and thought I would check out my bees in my garden to see if they had swarmed during the warm weather. No, that was fine. I was stood approx 50 metres away from the calmest hive I have every had, when a few bees must have come out of their hive, had a sniff of the air and thought 'What is that dreadful smell'. They attacked my head and stung me good and proper.
15 mins later a curtain of heat swept down me from head to toe together with reddening itchy rash. I began scratching and itching like a mad woman. A few minutes after that began the most dreadful shaking. Uncontrollable. After being taken to A&E, administration of anti sickness (I vomited all over the A&E reception counter!), anti histamines, and saline drip, I was discharged. I have now completed a years course of bee venom desensitisation and no longer need an epipen.
The bees obviously did not like the smell of the perfume
This Monday gone, all dressed up for a Birthday lunch and spraying myself with a different perfume to the one above, I went into my kitchen to pick up my car keys when I felt the most painful stabbing sensation in my neck. It felt like a giant needle. Ouch I cried, but the pain continued. Fortunately I had a nurse friend with me who declared a large ant was on my neck and flicked it off. I do know that we have had problems with an ants nest in our kitchen and can only assume that judging by the description of it, it was possibly a queen. I took an antihistamine just in case I started itching as before. The ant had left a red area the size of a 10p coin with a oblong shaped hole in the middle.
10 mins went by and I began to feel ever so strange. Dizzy, disorientated. Then began the trembles I had experienced before. 'This is stupid' I thought, 'I can't possibly to to A &E and say I've been bitten by an ant!'. The trembling and shaking got worse and now effected my whole body. 'Dial 999' I told my friend. Thankfully I had an epipen and administered, or rather my friend administered as I was shaking that much I couldn't keep a steady hand to fire the pen! Quickly and ambulance car arrived and After the paramedic assessment and I was taken off to A&E where the symptoms subsided.
I am due to go to bee venom desensitisation clinic again this Wednesday and I am going to ask about ant bites/stings.
It would appear that both bees and ants DO NOT like perfumes. But has anyone done any research on this as to which ones? And why? And why isn't there a health warning on perfume bottles stating 'WARNING' may trigger insects to bite you!
I don't know if the ant bit me or stung, and cannot find anything on the web.
Bee venom is a mixture of different chemicals including mellatin, phospholipase A, and Hyaluronidase and their bite contains 2-heptanone , but I cannot find anything on ant bites and stings. Does anyone know?
I'm off to Minorca on 7th Oct where there are lots of creepy crawlies and I want to bee prepared!
