What to do if you get stung by a wasp

When stung by a wasp, if there is a serious manifestation of the whole body, you should immediately call the emergency number, followed by examining the wound and cleaning it. 1. Severe systemic manifestations, or multiple wasp stings, require calling emergency services immediately. Usually less than 10 bee stings can cause only localized symptoms, while more than 50 bee stings can cause severe systemic symptoms of poisoning, but for people who are highly sensitive to bee toxin, 1 bee sting can cause death. 2. Examine the wound carefully and promptly detect the tail stinger and venom glands left in the wound and scrape them off with the back of a knife or a credit card. 3. Targeted rinsing of the wound. If stung by a hornet, the local area can be washed and dressed with a weakly acidic solution such as vinegar. After treatment, cold compresses can be applied to the stung skin to alleviate the patient’s pain and reduce the edema of the local trauma; then topical hydrocortisone butyrate ointment and other medications can be used. You can also take Ji Desheng snake medicine tablets, loratadine, cetirizine and other drugs. 4. A large number of wasp stings can lead to severe anaphylactic shock. Therefore, attention needs to be paid to the prevention and treatment of anaphylaxis.