What to do when bitten by fire ants

Patients who are inadvertently bitten by fire ants can often take different clinical treatments according to the severity and scope of the bite: 1. If the patient is bitten by fire ants to a lesser extent, the local injury is more limited and does not cause extensive infection. At this time, patients can apply local topical Ruyi Jinhuang cream and vital iodine gauze to promote faster absorption of local inflammatory factors, thus reducing the symptoms of local redness, swelling and pain. Most of the patients after 3-5 days of local treatment, the swelling symptoms can subside on their own, playing a better therapeutic effect. 2, if the patient is bitten by fire ants is extensive, the damage is more serious, the local swelling, pain, skin temperature increases, activity is limited. At this time, purely through the external application of drugs, can not make the local inflammation faster to subside, need to actively give anti-infection treatment, while performing abscess incision and drainage, remove local necrotic tissue, most patients often need about two weeks, the local infection can be completely subside.