How to Treat a Bee Sting - Two Effective Ways

Learning how to treat a bee sting can save you untold inconvenience and wasted time. The last thing you want to have on holiday, but that is often when they occur.

The homeopathic medicine Apis, found in most homeopathic home prescribing kits, is the number one medicine for the effective and rapid treatment of any insect bite as long as it looks like a typical bee sting:

• the swelling is red
• the swelling is rosy in appearance
• the swelling is hard and tight
• some relief is experienced with cold applications, whereas hot applications make the pain worse
• the pain is stinging or burning in nature

Relief is normally rapid after the first dose, but you may need to take several before the swelling and pain is finally healed. If you get no relief after the first few doses, then this is not going to be the right way to go for you.

But it is the first medicine to reach for when you are working out how to treat a bee sting. Just remember everyone is different. Whilst it may be the best medicine for your insect stings, it may not be the best for your partner, your daughter, your parent.

Bee and wasp stings can also be the cause of anaphylactic shock, and if you haven't experienced a bee sting before, you need to be on the look out for that.

Anaphylactic shock is an allergic reaction to the sting and can cause an enormous swelling, way out of proportion to the normal bee sting. If it occurs around your neck, that impedes your breathing.

Apis is the number one homeopathic medicine for anaphylactic shock, whatever the cause.

If you are out in the middle of nowhere and get stung by any insect, the best thing you can do is to urinate on it! No I'm not joking. The ammonia in your urine may save the day, so don't dismiss this wonderful bush medicine.

But you may prefer to take Apis along with you, for a more acceptable solution.

Learning how to treat a bee sting may save your holiday. And it's just as effective on animals.

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