I was stung by a bee while pregnant.

Pregnant women must be very careful because many situations will affect the development of the child. So, if a pregnant woman is stung by a wasp, will it affect the development of the baby? In fact, being stung by a wasp will not affect the fetus when a pregnant woman is pregnant, but it will have a relatively large impact on the pregnant woman, so it needs to be treated in time. Next, I will introduce to you how to deal with wasp stings in pregnant women.

1. What to do if a pregnant woman is stung by a bee

1. After being stung by a bee, you should first check the wound carefully. If the stinger is still in the wound, you will see a small black dot on the skin. You can pick it out with tweezers or a needle tip, or stick it with tape and then peel it off. Then wash it with clean water and apply iodine tincture to the affected area.

2. Apply 5% soda water, soapy water or 3% ammonia water locally. For wasp stings, no medicine is needed but acetic acid or vinegar can be applied locally.

3. Use 20% aluminum acetate solution for cold wet compress to reduce swelling directly if the pain is severe.

4. Mash the garlic or ginger or apply the juice to the affected area.

5. Cut the fresh eggplant and apply it to the affected area or add appropriate amount of sugar and mash it together and apply it.

6. Mash fresh violet yedoensis, lobelia, dandelion, wild chrysanthemum, leek, etc. together or individually and apply to the affected area.

7. In severe cases, antihistamines, snake medicine or corticosteroids can be used to overcome the condition. Those with severe reactions such as shock should be rescued immediately.

2. Precautions for pregnant women after being stung by a bee

1. Wasps are poisonous, but bees are not. After being stung by a bee, you should also remove the stinger first. The difference in treatment from wasps is that you can apply some ammonia, baking soda or soapy water to the wound.

2. If a person has no symptoms twenty minutes after being stung by a bee, can he be assured?

3. Cleaning: Once stung by a bee, clean the wound with warm water, soapy water, salt water or sugar water. If there is no water, fresh urine will also work. If there is any stinger left in the wound, it should be removed immediately.

4. Apply medicine: balm, safflower oil, green ointment, etc. You can also mash and chew ginger, garlic, purslane (a wild vegetable) and apply it to the wound.

Seek medical treatment: If you experience symptoms such as headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, irritability, fever, etc., you should go to the hospital for treatment immediately.

3. What are the symptoms of bee stings?

There are many types of bees, such as honey bees, wasps, hornets, bumble bees, etc. Drones do not harm people because they do not have venom glands or stingers. The ones that sting people are female bees (worker bees). The end of the female bee's abdomen has a stinger connected to a venom gland. When the stinger enters the human body, venom is immediately injected. When a bee stings someone, it often leaves its stinger at the site of the sting; however, a wasp retracts its stinger after stinging and can continue to hurt someone.

Bee venom mainly contains formic acid, neurotoxins and histamine, which can cause hemolysis and bleeding, have an inhibitory effect on the central nervous system, and may also cause allergic reactions in some victims of stings. When a person is stung by a bee, in mild cases, only local redness, swelling, pain, and burning sensation may occur. There may also be blisters, ecchymosis, and local lymph node enlargement, which will disappear on their own within a few hours to 1-2 days. If a person is stung by a swarm of bees in multiple places on his body, it often causes systemic symptoms such as fever, headache, dizziness, nausea, irritability, and fainting. People who are allergic to bee venom may develop urticaria, rhinitis, swelling of the lips and eyelids, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting. In severe cases, it may cause laryngeal edema, asthma, difficulty breathing, coma, and ultimately death from respiratory and circulatory failure.