Wasp sting

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

Was up in my loft yesterday and put my hand down to get up and felt an incedible pain in my finger , realising quite quickly that a huge wasp was still attached to it. Pulled it off quickly, but the venom had been injected.
My hand steadily expanded during the day and looks like a marigold that has been blown up.
Off to see Dr at 11:00am

[huw williams]

Global warming y'see?

What the hell is any self respecting wasp doing out stinging people on a freezing cold, wet november day?

[Colin Steadman]

On the positive side, you won't have to get one of those giant green hands that people are made to wave at the stage finishes of the TDF. You can just paint your hand green and use that.

[George]

I'm allergic to wasp stings and go into Anaphylaxis which is deadly unless I inject myself with my Epipen (adrenalin injector I always carry round)

[Bo-Gilly]

[quote="George"]I'm allergic to wasp stings

[Tony]

Has anyone else never been stung by a wasp or a bee? I've yet to have that pleasure! In fact, I even got away with riding through a bee swarm one spring day a couple of years ago. I could see that there were loads of insects silhouetted against the sky as I approached - but it wasn't until I got closer and heard the noise they were making that I realised they were bees swarming around a tree at the side of the road. By this time, I was past the point of no return - so I just carried on.....

The bees just bouced off me and my clothes as I rode through them....and that was pretty much it. I looked over my shoulder (several times) to see if they were going to chase me all the way back to Croydon at an unfeasibly quick pace - like in the movies - but they didn't!

[MJ_1993]

cant u pull a wasp sting out?

[Stu Merckx Man]

wasps dont leave their sting in you mo.

tony- i was out for a ride and one went in my mouth and stung my toung ....luckily im only alergic to the pain!

[MJ_1993]

hmmm...wrong insect

[Ian A4size]

One little blighter of an insect really brings me out in huge swellings (Messrs Williams/Green et all , insert joke here )- i take anti-histamines.

4 bad bites last year, once only to the quacks tho- it was on the hand ,so there is not a lot of room for swelling - it was going up my arm, my hand looked like the marigold as well.

[Andrew G]

I've experienced some large swellings in the last couple of years too. Must be a new breed of midgy as when bitten by it the affected part goes red, swells up a lot, and becomes a bit itchy.

The doc said it was an allergic reaction, but the only way to treat it is with the normal allergy (hayfever) pills. I now spray or smear exposed parts liberally with jungle warfare grade insect repellant during summer, but I'll keep out my loft for now as well.

[Mike I]

Sexist wasp cartoon coming up ....

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[Snoop Doug]

As a nipper I disturbed a wasp's nest as I climbed over a fence - three of the little b*stards nipped down the back of me t shirt and stung the back of my neck.

Copius vomit and passing out quickly followed.

I don't like 'em.

Snoop

[huw williams]

[quote="Ian MunneryA1size"] One little blighter of an insect really brings me out in huge swellings * i take anti-histamines..

[skippy]

Wasp sting?? Try avoiding, brown snakes and king snakes on the bike paths, red backs, white tail spiders, huntsmen spiders not poisonous but huge and Hairy, thats on the land!! then you have stingers, blue bottle jelly fish, stonefish, salt water crocs, stingrays, ask Steve Irwin!! and of course sharks!! funnily enough the cooler waters near us in Melbourne attract the real big buggers!!