Pinching or Flicking Stings - Makes No Difference!

[fincaazul]

Whilst researching how stings work, and the related physiological effects it appears to have on me (namely, quite a lot of swelling, pain, and quite often infection), I found this article in The Lancet, which suggests that pinching or flicking the stinger out, makes little difference!

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(96)01367-0/fulltext

I find this report somewhat hard to believe. Allegedly produced by highly intelligent professionals who have undergone years of training, yet use in their report, which hopefully has been peer reviewed, as all scientific reports should be, a word which is not in the Oxford English Dictionary. Hopefully the author meant 'envenomation', poison by biting or stinging. Makes you wonder if author has ever been stung?

 

[fincaazul]

I've not tried it on bee stings but it does work really well on other types of bites and stings if you put on asap. It does smell but only for a minute or so.

Used to be a similar product called 'Waspeze'