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04-07-2008, 02:23 PM
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 Wasp Stings - avoid 31 July apparently the time you are most at risk of being stung is the last week in July and first week of August (roughly), with 31 July being the median day, ie bang in the middle : Worst week of the year for insect stings and bites Personally, I can't remember the last time I was stung, by wasp or bee (I don't count the year I was picking flowers and picked a bee by mistake. It didn't really sting me, more like a mild electric shock)
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04-07-2008, 03:00 PM
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| i got stung by a wasp last year in april, stupid thing just flew over and stung me on the neck, cue a trip in an ambulance to hospital  i hate wasps
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04-07-2008, 04:17 PM
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| My OH was stung by a wasp on his hand a few years ago. His hand swelled and traveled up to his elbow within minutes  Good job I was there to take him to hospital as our lottie is down a path with a locked gate, and sometimes the mobile phone doesn't have a signal....and there was no-one else around on the site! I was stung by a wasp when I was a teenager- it was sitting round the far side of the dishcloth in the kitchen just waiting for someone to sting!!!!......put me off housework for ever......   2sheds.....So you think we should stay in bed on the 31st with a big block of chocolate just to be on the safe side??? Last edited by Nicos; 04-07-2008 at 04:19 PM. |
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04-07-2008, 05:31 PM
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| I have been stung by wasps several times and they don't usually bother me but when I was stung on the hand by a bee a few years back, it felt like I'd been hit with a hammer across my hand, the next day my whole arm was aching. How can something so small pack such a punch? An elderly aquaintance of mine has hives in his garden and, over the years had been stung by the bees on many occasions with no ill effects, but the last time he was stung by one, he had a very bad reaction that kept him in bed with a high fever for two days. |
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04-07-2008, 05:53 PM
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| I got a wasp spring last year - it hurt like hell and I thought I was just being a big girls blouse. Next thing, anaphalaxic shock, trip to hospital and now I'm doomed to carry an epipen and antihistamines forever. So thanks for the warning about the dangerous weeks twosheds (I got stung on Good Friday flying in the face of all wasp tradition!)
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04-07-2008, 06:15 PM
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| T Lady, just wondering what anthihistamines do you carry with you. My OH has been stung twice and so i would like to have something on hand in case it happens again.
__________________ And when you're back stops aching, And you're hands begin to harden. You will find yourself a partner, In the glory of the garden. Rudyard Kipling. |
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04-07-2008, 07:42 PM
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| I was stung by a little bugger last Saturday and it is itching like hell!!!! Yet been stung by Bee's on many occasions and felt nothing.BIZZARE!!!!
__________________ The greatness comes not when things go always good for you,but the greatness comes when you are really tested,when you take,some knocks,some disappointments;because only if youv'e been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. Last edited by Cloud; 04-07-2008 at 07:43 PM. |
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05-07-2008, 10:16 AM
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| Some time ago Compost King was stung on the hand by a wasp hiding in a glove. No reaction at the time but a month or so later Septecimia set in and nearly did for him!
__________________ Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet |
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05-07-2008, 05:01 PM
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| I've only ever had one wasp sting in my (almost) 50 years and that was on July 31st last year. We were on holiday though, so the fact that I was surrounded by a sticky picnic to attract them and probably showing more flesh than is normal, - so they had more to aim at - was probably the reason. |
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05-07-2008, 06:30 PM
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| I have been stung by both wasps and bees , give me a wasp eveery time. Never been in so much pain, when stung by a bee which was sunbathing on my washing. brought my washing in , and the bee stung me. Makes me shudder just remembering |
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07-07-2008, 09:18 AM
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I carry Piriton - the one that you take one per day, not the one every four hours type. If I do get stung again I'll take two instantly and hope that I don't need the adrenaline pen. When they rushed me to the doctor I think he gave me about 5 tablets of antihistamine and five of steroid but I don;t seem to be able to get hold of any steroid tablets! I went and got tested at one of those allergy clinics and they say that you are very rarely allergic to both wasps and bees, it tends to be one or the other. So you'll find that you react very differently - for me, a bee sting should be fine but a wasp sting can take me out for good!
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01-08-2008, 08:33 AM
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| so, did anyone get stung yesterday? (I got bitten twice by midgy things)
__________________ ~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi |
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01-08-2008, 12:28 PM
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| nope, i stayed in the house all day 
__________________ sometimes i do talk complete and utter rubbish ...... just ignore me if i do ........i'll go away eventually http://teachy.myminicity.com/ |
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01-08-2008, 05:26 PM
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| Got stung saturday last, clearing a spent bed  I thought it was a nettle sting to begin with(we grow very mean nettles) but my hand swelled up and was painful for a couple of days. I suspect it was a bee - so much more painful than the wasp sting I had a few years ago. |
