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busymum 
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Posted: 10 January 2011 at 5:21pm |
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For someone who is not allergic to bee stings, how can you tell if she has got a bee sting or a prickle in her foot? She didn't see a bee but there was a site of prickle/sting visible, and it was all surrounded in white almost immediately.
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Raspberryjam
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Posted: 10 January 2011 at 5:39pm |
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wouldnt know the difference but you would treat them the same
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Posted: 10 January 2011 at 6:50pm |
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I got a sting on xmas day, it really hurt I nearly cried...lol
It came up as a white raised lump with a big red patch round it and I could see the spot where the stinger had got me, the white patch got bigger and bigger for about an hour and then started to go down again.
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Posted: 10 January 2011 at 7:06pm |
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if it was a bee it would be bigger than a prickle and have some of the bees backside stuck to it too.
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Posted: 10 January 2011 at 7:12pm |
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Only bumble bees leave part of them behind, normal bees and wasps don't.
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Posted: 10 January 2011 at 7:32pm |
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Prickles normally won't turn the surrounding skin white. If the sac has fallen off the sting then it will look a bit like one of those prickles you get with the ends that you can hold onto to pull out.
It won't hurt to treat it as a sting just in case.
Honey Bees do leave stings behind I had one stuck to the sting in my foot, the bee fell off and left the sting behind as I lifted my foot up.
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Posted: 10 January 2011 at 7:45pm |
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Normal bees leave the stinger behind too, but it sometimes falls out of the person before you see it. I'd just leave it for a while, if there is a prickle in it, it'll show up soon enough and you can dig it out.
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Posted: 10 January 2011 at 8:38pm |
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I got stung by a wasp when DD was a newborn and I was laid up in bed for two days. I got so sick. I have never had an allergic reaction before to stings, but that was bad. I then got stung by a bee 2 weeks later (bad luck aye!) and it hurt in the moment, but felt fine after.
DD comes up in those big white lumps with red with just a normal itchy bite. I always freak out though worrying if its a sting.
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Posted: 10 January 2011 at 9:53pm |
 two_boys wrote:
Only bumble bees leave part of them behind, normal bees and wasps don't. |
thats true that wasps dont - but bees definitely do. My son got his book out about it the other day when eden got stung by a wasp.
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Posted: 10 January 2011 at 10:16pm |
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ah ok, I'll try to remember that. Maybe it was a wasp that got me. Was right on the inside of my arm and through my top, really freakin hurt, but I didn't see what got me, just felt it.
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Posted: 11 January 2011 at 9:23am |
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The difference is bee stings hurt so freakin bad and prickles not so much. If she is in heaps of pain go down the bee sting route, if not then don't!
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