What to do with a bee bite

Bee bites can be treated by topical medication and oral medication. 1. Topical medication: After being bitten by a bee, don’t be nervous, keep calm, first use cold water to continuously rinse the affected area to wash away bacteria and toxins, in order to prevent redness and swelling of the wound, use 2.5% tincture of iodine to apply on the affected area, which has the effect of killing pathogenic bacteria and destroying the biotoxins around the wound. In order to prevent wound infection, you can follow the doctor’s instructions to apply topical dexamethasone acetate cream, hydrocortisone butyrate cream and other drugs for treatment, can play a role in anti-infection, anti-allergy. 2. Oral medication: bee bites, redness and swelling is relatively heavy, there are signs of aggravation of pain, you can follow the doctor’s instructions to take loratadine tablets, cetirizine tablets, chlorpheniramine maleate tablets and other drugs for treatment, can relieve the redness and swelling of the symptoms of itching. If there are other uncomfortable symptoms, such as chest tightness, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc., it is recommended to go to the hospital as soon as possible, through the appropriate examination, to clarify the cause, and symptomatic treatment.