06-10-2019, 06:00 PM
Thank you Kristina, Ada and Diana....
I have a small story on bees. My daughter when she was about six years old used to run barefoot in the back yard, pretending to be a horse and jumping makeshift obstacles. She started to be stung by bees who were flying low or sitting in the grass. Then one day she came up to me as she had been stung on her ankle, we applied some vinegar after checking there was no stinger left. Then a few minutes later she came to show me whites spots on her left arm and, brainless, I was trying to remember what she had had as food which could start an allergy, then a few minutes later she came back she had immense white spot on her leg and on her left arm where all the small spots had united..
I laid her down on the grass and called 911 and they kept me on the phone asking questions, while the firemen and paramedics were coming, asking me to keep her laying down and if her breathing was easy, my daughter felt a small tightening of throat but was still breathing all right. When they arrived ( like barely 3 minutes) they immediately took her blood pressure and asked me when it had started and I figured it was about 20 minutes more or less since the sting.
They took her to the ambulance then and gave her a shot but then they explained that for a sting with enormous allergy, it will take away the life in about 20 minutes, if it doesn't, as in the case of my daughter, the blood pressure comes back up, the throat tighening disappears, and the patient is ok.
We then, had an epi-pen always with us, but never used it. Subsequently she got stung several more times, with fewer and fewer reactions, and was always the only one to be stung among us, and slowly her allergy was overcome with the subsequent stings. Somehow, it looked exactly as if the bees knew about it, and came back often to sting her...
So it's interesting to know, that you have to react fast to stay in the 20 minutes space ( not like some brainless mother that we know) if you suddenly see a major reaction. The paramedics explained that once they are on spot observing the blood pressure, they will check how fast the blood pressure lowers, if it is fast they know they have a life emergency, if it is slow they will let things take its course, they will still do an antihistamine shot in the end after the blood pressure is stable, but this way they give the body the way to fight back the allergy for the future... really interesting.
I have a small story on bees. My daughter when she was about six years old used to run barefoot in the back yard, pretending to be a horse and jumping makeshift obstacles. She started to be stung by bees who were flying low or sitting in the grass. Then one day she came up to me as she had been stung on her ankle, we applied some vinegar after checking there was no stinger left. Then a few minutes later she came to show me whites spots on her left arm and, brainless, I was trying to remember what she had had as food which could start an allergy, then a few minutes later she came back she had immense white spot on her leg and on her left arm where all the small spots had united..
I laid her down on the grass and called 911 and they kept me on the phone asking questions, while the firemen and paramedics were coming, asking me to keep her laying down and if her breathing was easy, my daughter felt a small tightening of throat but was still breathing all right. When they arrived ( like barely 3 minutes) they immediately took her blood pressure and asked me when it had started and I figured it was about 20 minutes more or less since the sting.
They took her to the ambulance then and gave her a shot but then they explained that for a sting with enormous allergy, it will take away the life in about 20 minutes, if it doesn't, as in the case of my daughter, the blood pressure comes back up, the throat tighening disappears, and the patient is ok.
We then, had an epi-pen always with us, but never used it. Subsequently she got stung several more times, with fewer and fewer reactions, and was always the only one to be stung among us, and slowly her allergy was overcome with the subsequent stings. Somehow, it looked exactly as if the bees knew about it, and came back often to sting her...
So it's interesting to know, that you have to react fast to stay in the 20 minutes space ( not like some brainless mother that we know) if you suddenly see a major reaction. The paramedics explained that once they are on spot observing the blood pressure, they will check how fast the blood pressure lowers, if it is fast they know they have a life emergency, if it is slow they will let things take its course, they will still do an antihistamine shot in the end after the blood pressure is stable, but this way they give the body the way to fight back the allergy for the future... really interesting.
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