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STINGS OF DIFFERENT INSECTS AND SYMPTOMS THAT PRODUCE

The stings insects are frequent, specially during the spring months and summer. Though the majority of these stings produce a red injury, with irritation, sometimes they give place to serious problems or allergic reactions, due to the poisons of the insects.

In almost all the zones of the world we have common insects that are those who are in the habit of stings like: bees, wasps, bumblebees, mosquitos, fleas, thumbtacks and ticks. The case of the spiders and ants is different since they do not sting, bite.

The bees leave the visible sting on having stung, adhere to the skin, and is necessary to eliminate immediately, to extract it without breaking it. The bee that has stung later dies.

The wasps, they can return to sting again and again, do not leave the sting. In addition, the sting of the yellow wasp liberates a substance that it attracts to other nearby wasps. To differentiate the sting of bee and wasps it is, for him sting, if the sting is visible and has bite, is of bee; if one does not see, the most probable thing is that it is of wasp.

The mosquitos sting in the zones of the unprotected skin that does not take clothes: arms, legs, head and neck. Preferably to the dawn or late afternoon and night. Some species exist as the mosquito tiger that stings during the day and penetrates the clothes with his sting.

    The insects to carry out stings or bites that affect our skin, it is suitable before applying any analgesic cream, to realizing a cleanliness and disinfection.

 The fleas and the bedbug, sting in the covered zones of clothes and with repeated stings, because they are introduced under the clothes.

The ticks of the dogs to carry out stings they stick to the leather, where they can remain undetected for long time.

The spiders to bite, to make a point in the center of the lesion. It´s small spiders. In the tropical zone they are big spiders poisonous, they are really dangerous by the poison containing.

The Ants bite with the spiders, leaving a small lesion which is very painful. Normally they are red ants.
Most of the bites of these insects produce only slight consideration of local problems, consisting of swelling, pain, redness and itching at the site of the bite.

Some persons, the few, are very allergic to the stings of some insects, specially wasps and bees. They have a serious reaction after the sting that consists of difficulty to speak and to breathe, swelling of the lips and the face, weakness, dizziness and often hives, which is recognized by the appearance of red spots, swellings or pimple, which they bitten very much. This medical profile, is called anafilaxia and is so serious that it can kill the persons.

Bees and wasps are insects that produce more allergic reactions, or the type of poison contained in the bag interior.

WHAT IS THE TREATMENT FOR INSECT BITES?

It is important to make appropriate treatment to alleviate the itching and swelling, you should first see if the stinger remains in the skin if the wasp sting. In this case we must remove it without breaking it with a clamp or with a sterile needle, moving the stinger off the sides. After the wound is washed and if possible, disinfected with an antiseptic. To prevent the swelling is more convenient, with a good disinfection.

 
For pain apply, ice covered with a clean cloth or cold cloths or towels, for the stings of wasps, bees, mosquitoes, spiders and other insects. It can also be applied to the bite a home-made mixture of 50 percent with water and ammonia in a lotion or a spray, ointment or antiseptic bars, ammonia-containing and local analgesics, for avoid pain.

The rash are an inflammation around the site of the bite of a diameter of 10 cm.

The tick has to be removed from the skin, cogiéndola with tweezers or fingernails always protected with tissue paper. The tick, which must be caught as close to the skin, is moved to one side to the other and slowly, not abruptly, until it detach. It is advisable to apply a drop of oil, this means that before being released. When you pull out the ticks, abruptly breaks and head are attached to the skin. Do not crush or pull the tick to the ground, and allows that the water should drag her. Later one wash the hands with water and soap and cold cloths on the sting, this will make diminish the pain and the inflammation. In some occasions the sting becomes infected, because of that they have scratched themselves, for it it is better not to touch the wound, to avoid that the inflammation and the reddening I lasted more than 24 hours.

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