Home Remedies For Bee Stings and Insect Bites

Going barefoot in soft Spring grass was avenom out.
favorite experience when I was a child...until IInsect bites may be helped by baking soda as
discovered bees. After that, I was a little morewell. For those not allergic, camphorated oil is
careful about where I walked sans shoes.another useful product found in many homes. My
It felt a lot like stepping on a piece of glass. Momgrandparents believed in the use of meat
made a paste of baking soda and water and hadtenderizer for the irritation and itchiness.
it on the sting within minutes of the incident, and itThere is at least one insect bite that may require
sure seemed to help cool the burn. Unfortunately,more effort. If you've never been bitten by
I'm one of those allergic to bee stings, so we hadchiggers, count yourself lucky. The intense itching
about ten days of home treatment to take carecan require a round of prednisone to survive. One
of it.thing you can do is to paint each of the bites with
Naturally, that meant keeping the swollen foot up,nail polish. While I've been known to use the first
and it also meant soaking it in warm epsom's saltbottle at hand, you may want to invest in a bottle
water. That felt great, especially when the pinsof clear polish for this purpose.
and needles sensation came along. Both of theseIt is possible to prevent bites from occurring, or
treatments probably saved me a lot of pain.at least to make them fewer and farther
Baking powder paste can help pull some of thebetween. Eating certain foods and spices may
poison out of the sting. It's not the only thing thatmake your sweat to much for the bugs.
can. The only use for tobacco I've ever had wasCayenne, marjoram, ginger and marjoram are
as an emergency pulling agent. Damp tobaccofour that could be useful.
placed over the sting may also pull some of the