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Related: About this forumInsect Bites and Stings: Tips and Remedies
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Insect Bites and Stings: Tips and Remedies (Original Post)
elleng
Jun 2016
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Warpy
(110,900 posts)1. When I was a kid, mud worked about the best of anything on bee stings
Glad to see it's getting the recognition it deserves.
longship
(40,416 posts)2. Benadryl works for minor reactions.
NB, not anaphylactic shock. Then, it's an Epipen or 911.
safeinOhio
(32,524 posts)4. I use to end up in the ER
Every year for allergy reaction until I discovered injectible Benadryl. Has kept out of the ER for 10 years now. Works way better than the pills.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)3. Meat tenderizer works on wasp stings as well as mosquito bites.
I just rub on a little of the powder with a few drops of water; works really fast.
Jnclr89
(128 posts)5. What is meat tenderizer?
I never heard of it. But sounds interesting.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)6. Its an enzymatic product ...
Meat tenderizer refers to a powdered naturally derived enzyme powder. The enzyme most commonly used is papain which comes from papayas. Meat is sprinkled with the powder and the enzymes help to break down the meat fibers. The same result can be obtained by marinating meat in papaya or pineapple juice.
Apparently, Adolph's Meat Tenderizer (an old standby, check the spice section in your grocery store) uses pineapple extracts. Don't know if fresh pineapple or pineapple juice would be conc'd enough to work. If you wear soft contacts, the enzymatic cleaning tablets will probably contain papain, pancreatin, subtilisin, subtilisin A, trypsin, or chymotrypsin -- all proteolytic (i.e. protein- and peptide-digesting) enzymes, which should break down the bee venom. So maybe put one of those fizzy tablets on your next bee sting, though I don't know if all would be equally effective.